Dirk Kuyt Took Liverpool to Victory
4 Nov
It is a great weekend for Liverpool, scoring a spectacular v2-0 victory against Tottenham Hotspurs and climbing up the Premiere League rankings gradually. Liverpool has been showing positive improvements this past couple of weeks; the team is looking pretty solid and we can expect more victories from them for sure. They now scored 37 points and are in sixth place. Spurs, on the other hand, remains in the fourth position with 38 points.
Without Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres, two of Liverpool’s best players, the team entered the match without too many expectations. However, the team’s manager Rafa Benitez used Liverpool’s usual formation (4-5-1), placing Dirk Kuyt as the team’s sole striker while Alberto Aquilani act as a supporting attacker for Kuyt. Phlippe Degen, Liverpool’s fullback, was placed at the centerline to help create movements and set the game’s pace.
The strategy worked out beautifully, with Kuyt scoring the first goal of this match after a mere six minutes into the first half. Kuyt showed a spectacular teamwork with Aquilani before scoring a beautiful goal for Liverpool. Spurs tried to return the tide by pushing forward and pressing Liverpool’s defense line intensely, with several great opportunities including the one where Martin Skrtel made a high-powered attempt against the goal and missed by a couple of inches.
Spurs continued to press forward during the second half, but their attacks were not good enough to break Liverpool’s solid defense. At the very last minute, David Ngog was tackled roughly inside the penalty area; Kuyt did a great job executing the penalty.