Sunderland vs Liverpool

Result : 0-1
Scorer : Fernando Torres
Man of the Match : Hyypia

The new season has started and Liverpool opened their campaign against the much improve (on paper at least) Sunderland.

I hate it when we play our first game of the season away. Maybe it’s because I always hope that we will start the season with a bang, and playing at Anfield will more likely resulted in that. But it was the Stadium of Light this season and the game was a drab.

Whatever optimism I had watching the pre-season was gone because of this game. We didn’t play well. Dossena didn’t get forward as much as he did during pre-season, Plesis looked out of place and I just cannot accept playing Kuyt on the right when we play 4-4-2. It’s ok playing him there as part of the forwards, but not as a right midfield. Add that by playing Arbeloa as right back, we completely lost the ability to attack from that flank. But what do I know, I learn my football from TV and CM.

Torres scored the winner yet again. What can I say about this boy, he was hardly in the game at all but when he got that one chance, he buried it. Good to see he picked up where he left last season. His partnership with Keane has yet to click though. Funny when Keane actually stopped his shot from crossing the line earlier.

MOTM for was Hyypia. He started nervously but soon enough regained his composure to put in a good performance. His performance today was nowhere near his best but because everyone else played so poorly he did enough to be given MOTM. Benayoun ran Hyypia close though. He is the only player who continued good form from the pre-season friendly. Hope he can keep it up, we need all the creativity we can get.

The upside of this game is we can only improve from here. I’m sure we will. Can’t wait for the next game already!