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| Daniel Sturridge |
I never thought I'd see this kinda headline in my days, but why am complaining if Arsenal can be on top of the league table without last season's best striker (Walcott), best player (Cazorla) and most subbed player who got the fan's vote for the best goal (Podolski).
I turned on my browser to see what the stories are concerning the weekend games and I see "Hull stun Sturridge-less Liverpool". Seriously?! Sturridge-less?? How did Daniel Sturridge's name come to suggest that the lack of the former Chelsea/Man City striker could be detrimental to the success of a club, let alone one of England's biggest football brands? Sturridge-less Liverpool! An indication of how potentially impotent the Reds could be just after matchday 13. Not a pretty thing to consider especially when the Anfield side had Luis Suarez on the pitch for 90 minutes. The Uruguayan was the subject of much controversy in the summer after that disturbing bid Arsenal made for him, leading to a question where it needed to be asked what the North London club had been inhaling prior to making that bid. But even with Mr. Suarez available for duty and Stephen Gerrard behind him for support, the Reds could not get a decent result against Hull City...or is it Hull Tigers? Whatever their appellation, they got a convincing 3-1 win over Sturridge-less Liverpool (won't get over this one in a hurry) even though this was looking like it would be the season where the Reds make a decent pursuit of the title in a long while or perhaps win a league title since the league as we know it was reloaded over 2 decades ago.
For a team that seemed to have enough striking options so much so that they let Fabio Borini go out on loan to Sunderland, it would seem Liverpool had it all covered in the goal-getting department as most other teams have done such that when the strikers are not getting the job done, the midfielders are always on call. But on the day, only Stephen Gerrard stepped up with Raheem Sterling running into defenders and 20-goal-a-season-target-setting Victor Moses missing a glaring opportunity.
Nevertheless, Brendan Rogers' men will be glad to see the mercurial Brazilian, Phillipe COutinho, return to full midfield duty in midweek as they rise from the ashes to re-write a headline even as they will still be Sturridge-less as they go against Norwich on Wednesday.
