Liverpool Just Can't Score Goals For Fun These Days

    After a disastrous first half to the season, in where the Reds were a shaddow of the team that finished runners-up in last season's Premier League, Liverpool are starting to regain confidence and momentum game by game.

    However, what I noticed in the second half of the season is that Liverpool are keeping many clean sheets but just not scoring many goals. This is a completely different story to the first half of the season in where Liverpool were banging in the goals for fun and at the same time conceded way to many goals to their opponents. I am surely not expecting Rafa's charges to score many goals and keep clean sheets at the same time in every match they play ( The players are human beings too ).

    It's just depressing to see that Liverpool have not managed to score more than two goals in a match after thrashing poor Hull 6-1 at Anfield. That match was played back in September 2009. ( I've highligted this point in my previous article that I wrote two and the half months ago ). http://bleacherreport.com/articles/308759-rafael-benitez-should-bid-farewell-to-liverpool

    Last season, Liverpool scored 77 league goals. Looking at their gritty style of play Liverpool posses now in where they are having problems to break down defences, that acheivement looks a distinct possiblity for the Reds to overcome this season. With the exception of Xabi Alonso, this has been the same team that overcame all odds last season.

    Surely, this has been down to a few factors. Fernando Torres's niggling groin and hamstring problems has without doubt not help Liverpool's goal-scoring problems. Rafa has shifted Liverpool to a defensive and pressing unit that just seems to attack whenever a counter-attack is possible. Although David Ngog looks promising, he's no Torres. Torres's short cameo appearence in the game against Manchester City would provide a glimmer of hope to all Liverpool fans that the best is about to come. The recent pre-contract deal to bring Serbian Milan Jovanovic to Anfield just adds the icing to the cake.

    Speaking of the game against the Citizens, my point in this article could really be proven in that game. Martin Skrtel's header that went wide off a Gerrard corner was the only clear-cut chance Liverpool created in the game albeit the Citizens doing the same.'

    All those being said, Liverpool can surely look forward to the future with a smile with Torres's  and fellow influential team-mate Glen Johnson's return from injuries. Nando would surely want to add to his impressive goal to game ratio (12:14) while Johnson would be craving to be a threat down the right hand flank.