PEPE REINA

José Manuel Reina Páez or most famously known as Pepe Reina replaced my favourite Jerzy Dudek after Liverpool won Champions League Final. There is nothing wrong with Jerzy but I guess the new coach Rafa Benitez favours him over Jerzy. Both are good keepers but you can only have one keeper at a time in a game. And you cannot change keeper just like you change defenders, midfielders or strikers throughtout the season so poor Jerzy had to sit on the bench.

I have some reservation about Pepe Reina. People said that he is a penalty specialist in spain. Okay I agree with that. He had shown it many times. So not to bad. But he is not THAT good in the air. You can see Liverpool struggle with set pieaces of crosses these days. Because Pepe Reina is quite short for a keeper. And he always in a hurry to release the ball back as soon as he catch it. Well you can do it couple of times in the game for tactical reason but not EVERYTIME?? hold your horses pepe reina...you have 6 seconds to hold the ball...But I let you get
away with it. As long as the liverpool keep winning. I dont have any quarrel. You should give credits to your defenders for working hard to keep you in a clean sheet.