Brendan Rodgers must play to his fresh striker’s strengths if he is going to inflict the sort of defeat on Norwich City that was once the norm with the UruguayanThe good news for Brendan Rodgers and his newly timid Liverpool side is that Norwich City are back in the Premier League,back at Anfield on Sunday afternoon, and so goals should be back on the agenda. The bad news is that Luis Suárez remains in Barcelona.
Liverpool’s various demolitions of Norwich over the past few years featured 12 goals in six games from the Uruguayan, and including no fewer than three hat-tricks. It has become somewhat clichéd to comment that Liverpool are not the same team without Surez – few sides would be. The question is whether the Anfield revival of a couple of seasons ago was a fleeting illusion based more on Suárez’s potency with additional befriend from a fit Daniel Sturridge and a free-to-roam Raheem Sterling – than any overall upgrade in effectiveness.
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Source: theguardian.com