Liverpool completed their pre-season preparations by crashing to a 5-0 defeat against FSV Mainz in Germany.
With next week's Champions League qualifier in mind, boss Rafa Benitez started with a strong-looking side but a five-goal second-half blast from the hosts ensured a spectacular defeat.
Normally i would not care about the result of this game after all its just a friendly and our players are more concerned at the moment about building up there fitness, but for gods sake this is a shocking result we had a lot of players back against a second rate german team. I would expect better from the Liverpool fc reserve team, how low is the teams confidence right now, less than 1 week away from our champion league qualifying game agaist Haifa.
However after our performances and results in our first 2 preseason games maybe this thrashing is a blessing in disguise. Surely this has to set the alarm bells ringing in the players minds ahead of next weeks game and it may even get the players to start grinding out results early in the season, a period that has cost us dearly in seasons gone by.........but only if the players relies that friendly game or not this is not good enough for Liverpool Football Club.
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Alarms ringing? Yesterday was a pure disaster. It was a strong enough Liverpool side and I expected a hell of a lot more, even in terms of creating chances, but none of it was there.
Maybe it would take a draw or loss in the first leg against Haifa to shock them out of it. Not something I would wish on them mind you, but man they need to get their act together sharpish.
I hope that yesterday will shock them enough and if it dos`nt i imagine Rafa`s words today might be driving the point home.
One of the reason they looked lethargic was according to report, due to the intensive traing 2hours before the match. So most players are playing with maybe 30-40% of their energy left. But still, shocking!
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