Mascherano and Lucas the midfield meistros!

[Funkasy]

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I have to say that this is the worst midfield in the Premier League and we will never play one good match with them two together "controlling" our midfield together

 

they are good when they play with any other midfield.

[Mendoza]

[ODZ]

They are without a doubt the worst "pair" of central midfielders I can remember at Liverpool. They just don't work together. Mascherano is a good player generally but I disagree on Lucas. Lucas has made one successful forward pass all match. He's utter shit and completely hopeless. I was lost for words when the match ended and I realized Rafa has kept him on the pitch and didn't bring in Aquilani. Sometimes I think that Rafa's taking the piss out of us with his insistence that Lucas is a football player, and the more I mention it, the more I feel that the fact Lucas is utter utter utter shit hasn't been emphasized enough in the internet and the entire universe to properly highlight the truthfulness of that statement.

[laddo]

No, no, remember, Opta Stats say they pass and tackle all the time, which makes them undroppable.

 

I mean, 5 yard passes from side to side are what you need to break down teams like Wolves....

 

Moving out of sarcastic mood... Rafa said when he signed AA he planned to play him ahead of either Lucas or Masch, just behind Stevie. Why the fuck isnt he then?

 

Laughing stock to the rest of the league.

[Red Banjo]

Blame the guy who picks the team.

 

The guy who has witnessed how shite they are together yet still picks them regardless, because he cant be proved wrong

[ngogswilly]

Careful you dont say this sort of stuff on RAWK.

 

Cause over there Lucas is our saviour Jesus Christ.

 

True story...

[Hooch]

I can only concur. It's amazing how often they hug the halfway line. Against the mighty wolves. Benitez shithouse tactics.

[Magic Sponge]

They play that close together, you could throw a cock ring over both of them.

[Wor Horse]

They're good players to have in the squad. Not starting every match and the likes of Wolves though.

 

It's all just a bit wearing thin at the moment.

[ngogswilly]

They're good players to have in the squad. Not starting every match and the likes of Wolves though.

 

It's all just a bit wearing thin at the moment.

 

Yeah Masch and him could really be rotated in each other places. Aquilani should just play from now on beside either one of them.

[piscinin]

Lucas is fine. This experiment of Mascherano as regista has failed miserably though. It needs to be fucked off.

[Ted]

Lucas is fine. Heh.

[Cressa75]

Couldnt agree more. All the hard graft we put in against Spurs counts for very little now as its 2 points dropped. I know what Rafa is going to say 'The players were working hard and we were controlling the game'. We werent Rafa we were playing fucking Wolves and you didnt have the bollocks to play a midfielder you spunked 20 million quid on. Even when it was obvious that there was fuck all creativity coming out of our midfield you shit out and played for the draw. Decisions like this cost us the league last year and will end up with us finishing 6th at best this season.

[Code]

Spot on Funkasy, have some rep in spirit.

 

No one should tell me they are surprised they were the combo preferred tonight though, its beyond a joke now.

[Monster Masch]

It was about three weeks ago, somebody posted "Lucas just gets better every week" and he was serious.

 

Seeing as Stevie is just absolutely useless in his attacking position this season, I think he should be brought back to just keep it ticking in midfield. There is no centre midfield outlet for any of our players. That is why there is so many long balls now, and very few when Xabi played.

 

I don't know why I am saying this as majority of the people on here, who has sense, realise this.

 

At the moment, I would go with:

 

---Mascherano---

 

Gerrard---Aquilani

 

 

That way, we certainly will have a bit more guile and whatever Lucas does, I am sure Gerrard can do and seeing as Gerrard is so rusty going forward, give Aquilani a turn.

[JMARKH]

2 points against stoke, portsmouth and now the mighty wolves all because he wants to protect our defence rather than attack theirs, he is a coward, not a coward in real life but tactically i mean.

[Funkasy]

And again i would like to point out that the Greek played well, that's on another topic tho.

[ngogswilly]

It was about three weeks ago, somebody posted "Lucas just gets better every week" and he was serious.

 

Thats just madness.

 

If anyone wants to check out the Lucas thread on RAWK.

 

Seriously, you really should just for the fun of it.

 

Alot of them think hes our best player. No joke.:(

[rebel23]

these two should not be played together. our whole approach to these away games is wrong

[Funkasy]

he has been one of our better players this season, and really think he does the mascherano role good enough when somone else is playing beside him.

[James Dean]

He is shit, and he is going to stay shit, because he is shit.

 

Basically.

[myrlas]

To be fair, no central midfielder in the world would dominate for us tonight. As someone said in the match thread. It was a game of volleyball.

[Spanish_fan]

No wonder Benitez got rid of this one.

 

 

The future was bright with Lucas and Mascherano. He was even forced to buy an Italian backup for these two.

[Monster Masch]

To be fair, no central midfielder in the world would dominate for us tonight. As someone said in the match thread. It was a game of volleyball.

 

That is because there was no outlet in the middle of the park for any of the defenders to give the ball too. Xabi found space naturally and collected the ball and played simple passes forward. Tonight was one of the most obvious performances of how we missed him.

[harryo63]

blame raffa. he picks them . don,t blame the players