Andrew Robertson our solution to LB?

Yeah...Lukaku flick on to Rashford....Benteke flick on to Zaha..................TAA will be learning from these errors

 

on the Benteke flick on can i just say
wtf was Matip doing

 

It's easy to blame the CB's (especially when you hate one of them) but most will struggle against a big, strong CF. Under those circumstances the players around them have to adapt, expect the worst and be ready for it. If your CB is dominant then ok, be ready to attack, but if he's under the cosh you have to help him out. His FB and any defensive midfielder have to be on the alert to the knock downs. Someone tracking the runner as well will obviously help.
If a CB is getting beaten every time, it's probably a better tactic to just jostle the CF rather than try to win the ball all the time.

 

Yep and I’m sure he will learn from it.

As Saint says, it’s a collective issue. Look against palace - Henderson didn’t even bother to go for the ball.

 

Yes Henderson should have at least tried to put Benteke off i still mast peeved about Matip who followed Benteke then for some unknown reason just wandered off. If Matip follows Benteke up the pitch he then cannot just stop in no mans land so unable to challenge the CF plus leaving that space vacant for Zaha to run into

 

Klopp likes to play Lovern instead of Matip because Lovern is taller.

 

he's not taller.

lovern is 6'2"
matip is 6' 5"

Matip is better positional but he is weak

Lovren has better leap and is stronger but panicky and positionally suspect.

 

You got all these heights memorised don’t you

 

I love tall players

van dijk is actually shorter than matip.

Grujic is taller than lovren for example

 

Have you told Peter Crouch?
#fetish

 

crouchy is more of a stick insect.

 

If Crouch is 22 would like to have him back.

 

I imagine what the manager sees in training might sometime be very different to what we see in games. Maybe on the training pitch Moreno looked better than Robbo. Maybe Moreno's personality meshed with Klopps more. Maybe he saw some weakness in Robbo that he want to eliminate before trusting him.

Hard to say why he wasn't picked more earlier on. You could be right that he didn't want him to begin with, or it could be just some reason only Klopp knows.

 

You have a different measurement memorised.

 

I liked Crouch. A truly underated individual. He's more than a tall lad with a head (in fact he was a bad header of the ball at first).

That said he wouldn't fit in a Klopp team.

 

He wasn't just second choice though. Klopp was rotating every position bar LB, including the keeper. He seriously didn't want to play Robbo.

I just hope it wasn't a stubborn thing; was Robbo a committee signing and Klopp was making a point? If he was, the committee won the argument in the end. Not good either way is it?

 

Agreed

 

Or Klopp was just giving Robbo time to bed in? Didn't he have his first kiddie shortly after joining us. May have played a part.

 

Didn't do that with Oxlade or VVD

 

Depends on the individual player maybe, Klopp and his team would assess each new player who arrives