What is everyone's opinions on the midfield two of Adam and Lucas ?
Too many times this season I have seen our midfield concede far too much possession to the opposition. There have also been occasions were the likes of Wolves, Sunderland and Swansea have come to Anfield and overrun us for large periods.
I hold both players in high regard but worry about their mobility and ability to cover enough ground in the midfield as a partnership. I personally believe either one or the other would work best with the more energetic and combative (fit) Steven Gerrard.
Another option would be to incorporate a midfield 3 with perhaps Spearing offering additional support? Or Gerrard playing in behind Suarez and dropping into the middle to offer support?
The best partnership ever was Meireles-Lucas, what a pity that Somebody or somebodies decided to create an English team, let Meireles go and paid inflated prices for the Englishmen. Something is missing here. Suarez is the one how suffer most from these changes.
Now, don~t get me wrong, I have nothing against Englishmen or any other nation. I have something against high prices for decent Englishmen, when you could have in the same price the likes of Mata, David Luis or others, you name it. Maxi is not used, nobody remembers his hattricks, I am a little disappointed, I did not want to write about this aspect, but really, with all due respect to Adam, Downing atc. I prefered Meireles-Lucas- Suarez -Maxi (Or Kuit sometime)
I hope Suarez will not be temped to join Meireles in Chelsea..
BTW Lucas will not open in the Brazil squad this evening against Gabon, Mano decied in the last minute to use coupls or more from the same club that are used to play together, ie. Luisao and David Luis (Played in Benfica) Hulk and Kleber etc. As Lucas is the only player from Liverpool he lost his place, as did Thiago Silva, maybe Mano just wanted to rest them for the mor difficult game against Egypt.
I suppose you are happy for that, he will have some rest. Mano knows what he is doing, this team is very lacking, many injuries etc. So he decided to get several players from some clubs that have some experience of playing together.
The FB are not very encouraging (Dani Alves is suspenede, Marcelo did not come, Mourinho said he was injured, I even prefer Andre Santos over Fabio..
Lucas would have a tough mission to cover for all of them, so maybe it is better he does not play, let Sandro have the honour..It is always better to let a Totenham player get tired, isn~t it?