The Football Thread - 17/18 Season

[Wyrdness]

mZuzek said:

Wyrdness said:
I find it ironic we're in a day and age where Utd are the defensive team and Liverpool are the offensive team, for decades it was the other way around with Liverpool always having the signature strikers to finish off the chances they get (Dalglish, Rush, Barnes, Fowler, Owen, Torres, Suarez etc...) while United had the insane midfield and attack (Best, Law, Charlton, Hughes, Giggs, Scholes, Cantona, Koncheski etc...) with a shaky defence. It's like the two teams have swapped roles.

Suarez played in a very offensive Liverpool team that created loads of chances. His time was the beginning of the "Oh Shit Defence!" era.

Edit: also I believed 80's Liverpool played great offensive football and Dalglish was definitely more of a creator of goals than scorer of. But, I wasn't exactly around to see that to be sure.

The 80s team were defensive it's what they were known for they just had a very competent strike force that was efficient, Dalglish is Liverpool's 7th top goal scorer with 118 goals in 300 appearances, his role was similar to Cantona and Ronaldo were they could create but were major goal scoring forwards.