After last nights win against Real Madrid at Anfield, many bloggers and sports reporters are saying that either Liverpool outclassed Real Madrid, or Real looked a shadow of their former teams and Liverpool caught them out.
For me the biggest plus, was Jay Spearing!
With Liverpool 3-0 up, Real Madrid were getting through the midfield all too often. Despite not scoring, they were playing one-twos and causing problems everytime they went forward.
Lucas came on as a substitute, he’s an ok player, but neither a great tackler nor and goal scorer, Real’s progress through the middle continued to grow, to the extent that Real’s overlapping right back was constantly in space on his own on the right wing, Real didn’t use him at all.
Once on, Spearing showed good speed from box to box, almost getting through on the keeper and being unmarked as Torres chose to try to curl one past the keeper, when Spearing was in a better position as he arrived from deep to the edge of the box.
He had only been on the field 10 minutes and the fans around the ground chanted his name.
Most impressive for me, was that the attacks through the middle from Real, stopped within 5 minutes of Spearing coming on.
Instead Real were forced to play it wide to their unmarked right back, who was now in Arbeloa’s pocket.
Benitez should have more faith in some of the young talent coming through the ranks and not be afraid to have them in the first team as regulars, no point winning youth cups and leagues if they are to be released to other clubs and not put pressure on the so called big names currently holding first team places!
