Can I be a champion?(Liverpool-Sunderland)

The first five minutes the pressure was on Liverpool simply because the new signings were a bit nervous especially Henderson seemed to me very much. On the contrary I should say Enrique seemed quite confident and he also doesn`t look like the player he was at Newcastle, showing signs of improvement. However, after the first five minutes all of Henderson, Adam and Downing were classy. An interesting note to add would be the age of squad, where except Carragher there`s not any second player who is over 30. So, this shows that Liverpool will suffer a bit of inexperience as they go further on the league, contradicting the title.

Despite the hard work by Carroll and Suarez, Liverpool couldn`t score the second goal where they came too close by Downing`s cracking shot which hit the post. So, that brought my mind what L`pool would do if Sunderland somehow scores which was the case at the second half. Sunderland, for me, was definite to score because when they get close even at the tiniest bit to the Liverpool goal, they always crossed the ball into the area which pleased me a lot because as they are constructing the team upside down right now (even though Bruce played only two of them(Brown and Larsson)) they didn`t try to mature the attacks, they simply showed L`pool that they were there to get a result and they did. Bruce might have started with Vaughan instead of Colback but I guess he just didn`t want to introduce a new signing from the first game on showing the intention that he`s going to make the transition slower. However, the new two signings who have played Brown and Larsson contributed to the result most where Brown was elected MoM and Larsson scored on his debut for the draw.

Mr. Dalglish made clever substitutions but I would never understand why he wouldn`t choose a player like Kuyt as a starter. He`s proven, he scores goals and he never stops running. Maybe the difference between the two would be Dalglish`s choice to make the transition faster by introducing the young Henderson starting from the first game where Bruce chose to do so later in the game. N`gog would always be a good sub for these games because he has the flair and also the will to prove himself and as Dalglish stopped at two, Brown`s rigid play tired Carroll enough and the match concluded easily by Sunderland with a draw.