So in essence, liverpool were crap before Hodgson, Hodgson has come in, and changed absolutely nothing, so bye bye Woy, you are a complete waste of time?
No, but liverpool fans are under the delusion they massively underperformed last year and any decent manager would have, basically Torres, Gerrard and...... performing like a top 4 club instantly.
As said, first 8 games, 1 win, last 9 games, 5 wins, theres been a huge turn around, and frankly some of the away games the lost in the first 8 and home, were against some crap teams, while the away games in the past 8 games have been MUCH tougher. AS a gooner I wouldn't necessarily expect any points at Stoke, and wouldn't expect a win at Spurs, previous seasons maybe, this season Spurs are a top 5/6 club and expecting a win away is stupid. Stoke have home form and not much else.
Theres already been a turn around at Liverpool, one more loss doesn't change that. Hodgson isn't a away game genius either, look at Fulham, why would anyone expect a massive turn around in away form, home form is coming good, theres been a monumental shift in home for in the past 8-9 games.
All I'm saying is Liverpool will take TIME to improve, the team has changed, its lost its best defensive player, Caragher is getting worse by the year and that continues to happen.
Any manager would have a tough time this year and most would take time to turn them around. Fulham to be fair, are a quite weak squad and you don't really expect good away form so its a little harsh to say Hodgson isn't good away from home in general, but he also didn't have the team with fulham to really become a great manager in outfoxing the away team. With Fulham it was a case of sit back and defend as a tight unit, something that with Caragher/Soto/Johnson/Konchesky won't happen quickly(if at all).
Expecting great top 4 form from the start of the season is stupid, expect great away form after last year is laughable, ignoring the MASSIVE turn around in the past 9 games is ridiculous, this happened at HOME not AWAY, losing away again doesn't change that, in any way whatsoever.
Nor can Hodgson just somehow make a team that stopped performing away from home, do so, because he wants to. Lucas didn't close down today, he was terrible today, yet Liverpool fans will tell you he's been outstanding this season AT HOME. So do you think Hodgson told Lucas to stand off and fail to make any telling tackles, or do you think the squad gained this "away mentality" last year, when the away form went to crap.
The home form HAS changed, they have belief at home, something they didn't have last year, or early this season, thats the first step, and they've gone from 3 points, to 15 points at home first 8 vs next 8 games, thats HUGE.
Next step is getting draws away from home and winning more at home, step after that is getting some belief away from home, with January and some investment in players, that can only help.
