Ridiculous Reds Ridiculed by Wolves

A night to forget at Anfield was on the agenda once again for the thousands of Liverpool fans who made it to the game and it was almost as bad for those who had to make do with the TV coverage. The highlight of the game came after just 7 minutes when the ball found it's way through to Raul Meireles who managed to find the Wolves keeper with what I can only describe as a sitter and then he failed to get on to the end of the rebound as the ball was cleared away by the Wolves defence. A few long range shots followed from Liverpool who showed little or no desire to win the game. Gerrard was back for the reds but he looked like he wasn't match fit and the same can be said for the rest of his team mates who you would expect to be fresh after having the past 2 weeks without a game. Most of the poor performance came from the lack of effort and motivation and while the former is down to the players the latter should be down to the manager.

Hodgson must really be on his last life at Anfield.

If he wasn't before then Roy Hodgson is now walking a very thin line at Liverpool. When he picked a team containing 3 central midfielders and no natural wingers it was always clear that at least one player would be playing out of position but some of his decisions where just ludicrous. Dirk Kuyt has been played out of position at Liverpool for many years and has done a very good job playing down the right but by playing him wide left was an obvious mistake as the man can't use his left foot. This then left the gap where Kuyt usually plays, and does well, and Hodgson's next move was to play Raul Miereles in this gap on the right. Meireles has been one of the better performers over the past few games but the main reason for this has been the fact that he has been playing in the center of midfield. Half time came and went and there was no kick up the backside from the manager that Liverpool needed and all that came from the second half was another example of poor defending as Kyrgiakos headed it straight to Ebanks-Blake who played the ball back between him and Skrtel and both of the Liverpool centre backs went for the same ball which, when they both missed it, allowed Ward to score Wolves' first goal at Anfield for 26 years. The response came from the crowd who tried to persuade the team to at least try but this was quickly stopped by Hodgson who then decided that the best way to try and come from behind was to take a striker off, a decision which was greeted with boos and jeers from all sides of the ground. He didn't make things any better when he then brought Joe Cole on for Raul Meireles and decided to switch things round but instead of putting people where it would best suit them he left Kuyt to struggle out on the left and moved the best central midfielder we've got out to the wide right and when Gerrard moved over there it then left the centre of midfield for Cole to play in, a position where he has hardly ever played in his whole career and was extremely ineffective. After these strange changes and still no attempts from Liverpool it left Hodgson pondering how to try and regain the fans faith and he may of finally seen what almost every Liverpool fan has seen when he took off a poor performing Konchesky and brought on Aurelio however it was never likely to change the game it was merely one thing that he should have done before the start of the game. It was also the first time I've seen streams of people leaving the Kop with 20 minutes to go and the only other thing of note was a disallowed Skrtel goal when the Wolves defense ran out as one to catch him offside.
After the fans had put up with enough of Hodgson this season following embarrassing losses to Blackpool and Northampton Town to name but a few, he finally got his name sung by the fans at Anfield. He will be disappointed tho as the chants of "Hodgson for England" can hardly be taken as a positive and the amount of fans turning against Hodgson are growing by the days which surely must be recognised by the new owners. If nothing is done about the manager and there is no investment in the team then you can be sure that the few good players that Liverpool have will soon be on there way and who could blame them for jumping off a sinking ship. Torres hasn't played well since the first half of the game against Chelsea at Anfield over 7 weeks ago and this can't just be down to bad form I really think there is more to this than meets the eye and Hodgson is my number one reason for this. His extremely defensive tactics and lack of passion has seemingly rubbed off on some of his players.
Back to tonight's match and if someone was watching their first game of football and you told them that one team was bottom of the table before the game they certainly wouldn't have guessed it was Wolves based on the performance by Liverpool who are now only 5 points from the bottom of the table themselves. The way that Hodgson then tried to claim that Liverpool deserved more and that they where unlucky to have lost to such a good team then summed up Hodgson...
Nice bloke, Wrong job!