Again the Heskey shot count was zero. Mickey even gave him a tap in from five yards. The big man missed the ball. From five yards, with the goal gaping, and nothing - no contact. All strikers do that from time to time - I mean, Mickey failed to control a ball in the box in the first half which could have led to a goal. But he's scored 25 goals in his last 22 Liverpool games; he's won us so many matches with his goals he can afford the odd 'off' day.
Having missed a sitter in the goalless draw against Roma, Emmo now - to a degree - has cost us two extra points tonight. People keep talking about his contribution to the team despite not scoring - and it's excellent a lot of the time. My response has always been: yeah, but their will be games where the best chances fall to him, and he has to score. In the last eight days those chances have fallen his way in the two games he started, and he has failed to convert. He has failed to even hit the target. When do we get worried?
The man's confidence is shot to pieces, and it's painful for me to watch him at the moment. He won a couple of good headers, and didn't have a 'bad' game by any stretch of the imagination. But a striker has to score his fair share goals, and a run of one goal from 25-odd games is not Premiership quality 'striking' I'm afraid. It pains me to say it - please believe me on this. But he shouldn't be in the team at the moment - at least he certainly shouldn't have played tonight; away at Chelsea, perhaps, but after the way we beat Boro, and the similar approach of both those teams?
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Finally a Liverpool fan can admit to something!
