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Dalglish: Liverpool expects more from us

Comment: 0 September 19th, 2011 by: admin

A bashed and humiliated Kenny Dalglish did not hold back on publicly displaying his frustration over his Liverpool’s 0-4 defeat to Tottenham Hotspur.

The Scottish manager pinned the bludgeoning at White Hart Lane solely on his players’ dismal and below-par performance.

‘The boys are upset and so they should be,’ said the Scot.  ‘The football club expects more than that, a 4-0 defeat.’

The game saw Dalglish’s team get cut down to nine men after Charlie Adam and Martin Skrtel were sent off during the 28^th and 63^rd minute, sending the advantage to the Spurs.

With the match happening just days after meeting referees over concerns of unfair treatment towards his squad, the Reds manager refused to give comments regarding the officials’ decision.

‘It’s better to just leave it,’ he stated.  ‘We will just stick to [talking about] what we can dictate.  We cannot dictate interpretation in any way shape or form.  It’s best left unsaid because it takes away from a magnificent performance by Tottenham.’

Aside from Adam and Skrtel’s red cards, Liverpool star Luis Suarez was booked a yellow card after launching into sarcastic applause for the assistant referee during halftime.

‘You can talk about anyone being undisciplined but we have a very good reason for discipline,’ said Dalglish.  ‘My players did not surround the referee to complain at the decisions.  That means we don’t have a disciplinary problem.’

Already booked with a yellow card, Adam’s red card came after tackling Spurs’ Scott Parker, hitting the midfielder’s thigh.  Skrtel followed suit after coming at Gareth Bale from behind.

Reacting on the two sendoffs, Spurs manager Harry Redknapp noted that although the call on Adam could be argued as harsh, the one on Skrtel was not to be argued with.

‘I have no sympathy for him,’ Redknapp commented, referring to Skrtel.  ‘If you already have a yellow you don’t lift a guy up on the halfway line.’

‘I don’t know whether Charlie Adam had his eye on the ball or Scott,’ he continued, ‘but I can’t see him trying to do him.  He’s not that kind of lad.

‘He could have hurt Scott badly.  He hung a leg out maybe and I would give him the benefit of the doubt.’

The 4-0 score came with an early start with Luka Modric’s 7^th minute goal.

Jermain Defoe followed with a goal set up by Rafael van der Vaart on the 66^th minute.  Defoe then went to set up Emmanuel Adebayor, who would find the back of the net 2 minutes in the 68^th minute.

It was during injury time when Adebayor again came up to rocket in the 4^th goal.

With two consecutive losses, Liverpool sinks to 8^th place in the Premier League table; Tottenham are at 11^th.

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