But MITO, you’re not seeing the reward. You’re assuming that because he didn’t beat another 5 players and got an assist which led to a goal, that there’s no reward.
The reward is that we kept possession which allows us to start another attack. That is the philosophy.
Granted, it didn’t lead to a goal but the intent is there and we should stay true to it. The moment we start hoofing the ball is when we start to lose control and put ourselves under more pressure.
show the reward then....
while he is pissing about and our team is out of shape, nobody is able to move to the next phase.
when the ball is clearly at his feet for example salah can make a run into the right wing channel and has confidence in alisson finding him.
There is a slight difference between say Rafa's approach to corners and klopps but not huge. Its again risk and reward. Look to where firmino is placed from corners now, look to where salah and mane are placed. Firmino is bang in middle of 6 yard box. mane and salah are placed slightly wide and edge of box type area to get ball and break if its on or to clear if needed.
Here is the CORE point. When a ball is clear out as far as salah's zone he knows the team is in transition, they are getting up and out of the box to play opponents offside etc etc. He knows if he pisses about and loses it we are wide open so he will make his decision on whether to try break or merely clear the ball based on where opponents are and the risk he sees.
Now... we have a GK who in one case is in his 6 yard box doing a little turn to beat a man and knock a pass across the mouth of his goal to the RCB. he gets caught by murray late. there's no next ball on for the RCB necessarily. So alisson needs to judge the risk better. He clearly got away with one there as player was closer than he thought.
we then have him expecting a good back pass and its poor. he chooses to chip it over the guys head rather than clear it and ball out the passer.
Now sorry but on the first clearly he's not seen the risk fully and knows what he wanted to go do and just about gets it done. On the second he's just taken a huge risk when we are 1-0 up for virtually no reason
The point once more is this... if the philosphy is different depdning on what player we are talking about it doesn't work.
Not one person has brought up the obvious here. When lovren ****s up trying to keep a ball in (and i clearly remember him doing that once) he was savaged... and BY YOU ESPECIALLY
So one rule for one guy and one for another?
Its this simple. If a full back, or centre back is facing the wrong way and has a guy coming onto him the clear preference in our side is put it out and get reset. You don't know who is behind you, you don't ant a blind pass an forward can intercept... why? cos the risk outweighs the reward.
so i say again... Alisson was facing the play. the pass was short. if he has seen a ball to play and chipped the guy then played it we would all be gooing over it. he didn't, he just did it just because. I am very sure klopp's had a word on it.