Liverpool Football Club recorded an emphatic win over PSV and showed they are the team to beat in Europe this year, but the premiership is still the holy grail for all Liverpool fans.
Liverpool Fc are reaching their peak at just the right time and have been made the bookies favourites to lift the cup for the sixth time. Benitez`s tactical superiority is showing as the comp goes on, the tactics used in the elimination of Barcelona was breathtaking and the demolition of PSV the current champions and leaders of the dutch league was comprehensive, some people may say that Liverpool deserve little credit for the PSV win because the dutch played so bad, but PSV started out with eleven men behind the ball, a tactic that Liverpool would have had problems with in previous years, but Liverpool attacked got their goal and then PSV had to come forward and then Liverpool exploited the space and simply destroyed the Dutch champions, it was a tactical battle won by Benitez over Liverpool`s and Man utd conqueror last year and Arsene Wenger this year, the long time tormentor of English football Ronald Koeman.
But even if Liverpool do lift the champions league cup this year, it will be a huge addition to the Liverpool trophy cabinet but it is still not the trophy that all Liverpool fans across the globe yearn for.
The premiership is the only cup that has eluded Liverpool, and there has been piles of pressure applied to every manager that has attempted to bring it to Anfield, Souness, Evans and Houlier have all come close but just not got there.
Benitez is a different kettle of fish, he has proved that on his limited funds he can bring together a squad capable of winning the champions league and other cup comps, and there we see the problem, you really only need a starting eleven to win a cup game but to win a league you need a squad of great players. After the introduction of Romans Rubles the game has changed forever in England, no longer is it good enough to have a starting 11 of great players, Chelski have upped the standard by having twenty plus players of international standard and been able to introduce star players with fresh legs when needs be through out the league season when players get tired(but thankfully they have not had a manager capable of repeating the feat in Europe) and because chelski have done this the other teams must follow suite to stay in the race, Man Utd have been able to do this but Liverpool and Arsenal have so far been left behind.
Benitez is on the verge of been given the transfer funds to compete with the big boys, with this money he should be able to buy a squad capable of winning the Premiership.
Today Samuel Eto said he love`s Liverpool and this is a very big step forward for the club, to get the best players no matter what money you offer, the club has to match the players ambitions and now Liverpool is seen as a team on the up throughout Europe, and with Rafa`s summer transfer funds we should at last be able to bring in the quality players to fill a full squad of players capable of winning the holy grail.
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