Source: Liverpool_Echo
Liverpool FC must use power of positive thinking says legend Ian Rush
AFTER losing only two games throughout the whole of last season, we've now managed to lose two in the space of just 10 days.
Which means that Liverpool have to adopt a positive mental outlook in every game from here on in.
The Reds were held to too many draws last season.
But the margin for error in the modern title race is so slim that draws are no use any more.
United won the Premier League title last season despite losing four matches.
And that's because they drew five fewer than Liverpool throughout the course of the campaign.
The three points for a win format means that a defeat - even a home defeat as desperately disappointing as last night's - is not as damaging as it might otherwise have been.
It's accepted that the games we drew at home last season against the likes of West Ham, Fulham, Stoke and Hull cost us the title.
But losing two and winning two of those games would have given us a better points return than remaining unbeaten in all four.
That's why I think it's far too early to be writing Liverpool off as credible title challengers as some people already appear to be doing.
And it's a times like this that the supporters' influence can be vitally important.
