Source: Liverpool_Echo
Liverpool FC assistant manager Sammy Lee focusing on the positives ahead of Bolton clash
THE art of being a good coach demands you're a realist as well as an optimist and Sammy Lee has found the right blend this week.[LNB]Like every Liverpudlian who made the trek to Wolverhampton on Tuesday night, Lee was left bitterly frustrated by a performance from the Reds that never once remotely threatened to yield three points.[LNB]Devoid of creativity and lacking inspiration, there was no way Liverpool could claim they deserved anything for their efforts other than a point - hugely disappointing when you consider they had brushed Tottenham Hotspur aside the week before.[LNB]Lee, however, is not the type of character to dwell on a disappointment; bubbly, bouncy and possessing an infectious will to win, Rafa Benitez's number two wasted little time in looking at the constructive side of the team's efforts.[LNB]That, of course, might seem the wrong word to use, given Liverpool were incapable of constructing anything around Wolves' penalty area and afforded their goalkeeper, Marcus Hahnemann, the luxury of doing nothing other than catching high balls.[LNB]It was at the other end of the field, though, where Lee discovered his particular crumb of comfort; a fourth clean sheet in five matches, after all, offered proof that Liverpool know how to street fight once more.[LNB]True, they have had plenty of chances to hone such skills in the past month - bar a slick, quick 45 minutes against Arsenal, it is difficult to recall the last occasion when the Reds play was graced with invention or they showed ingenuity.[LNB]Yet as he prepares for a reunion with a club he both played for and managed, Lee is convinced such battling qualities will stand Liverpool in good stead for their perilous pursuit of a Champions League place.[LNB]In the same way Stoke City and Wolves have made life troublesome for the Reds, Bolton Wanderers will surely aim to do the same and increase the uncertainty swirling around Anfield; Lee, not surprisingly, sees things a little differently.
