Dear Liverpool: Goals You Scored not Enough to Cover Goals You Lost

Hull 3-0 Liverpool…
Sunray Cave FC 3-4 Liverpool...
Malaysia XI 3-6 Liverpool…
Galatasaray 3-0 Liverpool…
Valerenga 3-3 Liverpool…
Well, you got the idea.

The similarity is obvious here, isn’t it? Liverpool failed to have a clean sheet in their pre-season so far, and lost three goals in every game no matter who their opponents were. There are no signs of them signing any defenders yet, instead they have already signed quite a number of attacking players since last season, Luis Suarez, Andy Carroll, Charlie Adam and Stewart Downing.

Kenny Dalglish seems to believe in attacking football and think that as far as you can score in front, it is okay to lose some goals. It is obvious that their defenders are not good enough to compete in the Premier League, look at their opponents so far, none of them are very strong, but all of them manage to score three goals in the game. In the sense of Premier League level, three goals is A LOT.

Although we don’t like boring defensive tactics, in recently tournaments, facts had proven that defense is much more important than attack, look at Paraguay, they didn’t win a match in the COPA 2011 but they still managed to get into final. Your strikers won’t be on fire 24/7 and when they can’t score, you are going to lose your game with crappy defense.

Carragher is getting old, Adam Johnson seems to enjoy attacking more than defending, if Liverpool wants to challenge the League title, they will have to bring in some new faces at the back. They already have enough players up front who can create troubles to their opponents, if they can have a stable defense, they will be one of the team to look out for next season.