Right then, we're getting towards the pointy end and Liverpool's season so far has been distinctly unpointy so far.. that is to say sharp in terms of scoring enough goals to be taken seriously anyway.
I'm not going to bang on about dropping embarrassing points at home, because frankly that would be labouring the point. We're past halfway in the league and although we're the only team in England to remain unbeaten at home in all competitions, that isn't much good if we'd have been better off losing 4 and winning 3 of the 7 we've drawn so far.
Let's look forward and at what needs to happen to get up to where we need to be.
From the title of this blog, you can perhaps see where I am going with this, but it has been frustrating that since Luis Suarez signed for Liverpool, Steven Gerrard has been a virtual spectator though injury and there is a degree of irony in that we get Gerrard back at the same time as we lose Suarez for 8 games.
Now in terms of league games, Suarez only has two to go before he can return and hopefully he won't take too much time to get back up to speed - probably lost a bit of match sharpness, but it's not as if he's been out injured so hopefully he'll hit the ground running.
The prospect of a fully match fit (by that time) Steven Gerrard and Luis Suarez tearing it up will give Liverpool an undoubted added dimension and it will be good to see the two players who we apparently can't function without actually on the same pitch. It's been said repeatedly that we rely too much on Gerrard over the years - which is probably true for a lot of those years - and the same has been said of Suarez. The prospect of them both together and of worrying about which one we should be relying on most should be interesting.
It will also come at a vital point in the season.. Suarez should return against Spurs (h), which is followed by Man Utd (a), Everton (h) and possibly most significantly in terms of finishing 4th Arsenal (h). If we can start to pick up 3 points regularly at home, which we may possibly find easier against stronger opposition then when it gets towards March / April we may be in with a shout - especially if we mange to pick up the League Cup along the way... Man City will probably have something to say about that obviously, but we are in a stronger position than I expected us to be at this stage in that tie - and winning a trophy at Wembley certainly wouldn't do our confidence any harm - although having said that, it didn't really do Birmingham any favours.
There are obviously a lot of if's, but's and maybe's involved in all that lot.. but there always are. But one thing that I am pretty confident of is that if we do finish up in the Champions League next season it'll be due largely to the efforts Gerrard and Suarez.
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