After yet another disappointing performance, Brendan Rodgers’ managerial seat continues to simmer, inching closer to a Dr. Evil type of ejection through the metaphorical trap door into a pool populated with sharks with laser beams atop their heads.
Sunday as Liverpool travel to Goodison for the Merseyside derby against Everton, a loss might mean Rodgers will have to hitchhike back across Stanley Park as the bus might just leave without him.
Rodgers needs to call on players who will get it done Sunday, nothing else matters. He needs 11 players who’ll just dig in and get the job done one way or another.
This is the game Liverpool will most miss Jordan Henderson since he’s been unavailable.
If I were the Ulsterman, I’d scrape the three in the back (again) and formulate a 4-4-2 tight diamond. Liverpool will be rigid defensively, constricting space for Romelu Lukaku to devour the remains of Martin Skrtel.
The midfield diamond must be hungry. I’d call on players I trust to have the stones to be up for the fight.
Sunday doesn’t have to be a football match. Liverpool don’t need to play their way out of every defensive trouble, they don’t need to complete 25 passes as they build from the backline until politely rolling the ball over Tim Howard’s goal line, apologising for any inconvenience caused.
They need three points. Simple as. It doesn’t matter if Liverpool win 1-0 off a set piece, off an own goal. S**t, it doesn’t matter if Rodgers names himself to the starting XI and scores the winner.
*Thinking*
It’s not out of the realm of possibility that he’d sign himself to a one day contract and give himself the #8 kit and put himself on the pitch, is it?
Nightmares.
Anyway, here’s the XI I’d assemble for the derby.
Up the Reds.
