: Wed May 13, 2009 1:16 pm
carl_spackler wrote:
A whole 2 points more,
Benitez has only managed 3 points more than Chelsea all season, and that's in a season where Chelsea deemed the first manager as not up to the required standard. But many people on here seem to think that 3 point margin is enough for Benitez to be rated higher than Hiddink, but they don't consider Hiddink taking 2 points more than Benitez to be worthy?
and you seem to conveniently be ignoring the fact that Everton also knocked Man Utd, so have in fact removed both the 1st and 2nd placed team in the country from the competition.
I made comment about Everton knocking Man Utd reserves out in my initial post where I gave my rankings and the reasons.
Gerrard and Torres are better than anything Chelsea have IMO. However, that doesn't mean they have a better collection of players. It's not difficult to understand, Chelsea have a squad that is better equipped to mount a serious title bid because they have more depth, Liverpool simply outperformed you by being consistently able to win ugly when they had to. That's mainly down to Benitiez's tactics IMO.
Liverpool outperformed Chelsea when Chelsea were managed by Scolari. Chelsea outperformed Liverpool when Chelsea were managed by Hiddink.
Benitez has been at Liverpool for 5 years. If he hasn't managed to get the strength in depth to challenge for the title than that's his fault.
Try reading the thread, you'll see I've already pretty much said that very thing to Keith. Possibly the most consistent, but I still think he's far from the best.
I was being sarcastic again at the notion of lauding someone as being the best player in that position but needing to do a name check on him.
