Pretty much this. There is no other logical explanation for playing Lovren ahead of Sakho, or shifting Coutinho into other positions just to accommodate Lallana.
Should go on Americas next top model then.... God I ****ing hate hormonal teenagers who cry if you turn that **** or I am cait or Geordie shore off. Literally in my seat from about noon til 10:30am when I myself finally got to sit down and still whined when I asked for them to move to their own seat
Apart from Brod being so delusional to think he can get players to perform well out of position.If i wanted a 4x4 jeep I wouldn't buy a Maserati and take it off roading.
He's only being called out as a 'scapegoat' because he's not good enough. Saying that if he left we'd have another 'scapegoat' - all teams do, whether they have the best squad in the world or not. If they lose, fans tend to pile the **** onto one or two players. That's football, and that's football fans for you. He should take a note out of Lucas's book. Lucas was a 'scapegoat' for about 3 years, decided he was prepared to dig deep and work extra hard - he then became a fans favourite for a few years. Lallana does have natural ability but he just seems like he can't be arsed - I think that's his main issue. He needs to say 'right **** this I'm going to push myself to limit and be a success at Liverpool'. Instead he's busy with the beard trimmer creaming his face whilst checking his online banking account. ****ing nobber.
Lol I do agree with most of that but I wouldn't say he's not a*sed. I think he does put a lot of work and effort in and certainly puts in a shift when needed. For me, he lacks the intelligence to maximise his technical ability. His speed of thought is really slow, he makes the wrong decisions and slows down the attacks. If he was around 20 years old, I'd say he's got a lot of ability with potential to become a very good player. Problem is, he's already 26/27, entering the prime of his career. It's very difficult to coach him on the tactical and mental parts of his game now.
I agree his decision making can be very poor at times. But I honestly don't see him putting in great shifts, not a shift that I'd expect from a Liverpool player anyway. He seems to just wonder round the pitch aimlessly at times. Yeah occasionally he'll run around like a headless chicken, but I definitely see signs that he can't be arsed (comparative to other players and what should be expected at our level).
Headless chicken - absolutely right. He does run around aimlessly and there's no method to his pressing and closing down. Pressing isn't that easy - you need to time your press, press the right player and in the right areas.
My thing is he has been seem drifting about while the left side is abandoned then legs it back and then looks a hero diving in late on a tackle whereas if he's offered width out left and controlled his position we'd have more shape in attack and defence. last game he was move and ibe was layed left side and he spent more time in ibe's way than anything. his one cruyff turn moment was done on the half way line as a Bournemouth guy just shepherded him away and left him room to go back and wide. I was looking at coutinho shooting poorly form right side with right foot while lallana got in ibes way on the left and wondering.. wtf is going on here.. then i wept salt tears seeing henderson not lallana coming off. I had said to me mates wathcing.. ok thats the team we will just have to endure until 60mins when he comes off. in the end we were digging in and him playing LCM trying to defend a 1-0. In other words this set up of Rodgers gets nothing out of lallana at all. you've 3 guys trying to play two positions really.
I don't believe Lallana was playing on the left against Stoke, nor was he playing on the right against Bournemouth. I think Coutinho was asked to play a inside left and right role respectively with Lallana and Milner having freedom to roam as CMs.
There's usually scapegoats when we lose games. Last time I checked, we've won 2 from 2. I think the word we're looking for is 'must-do-better' players. I think most of the team can fit into that.
Lallana started centrally against Bournemouth and Coutinho was shifted to the right which was bizarre. Either way - Rodgers is doing his best to fit Lallana into the team at the expense of others.
I'd sooner see Tex get a go rather than Llalalalalana. I just think develop Tex, he can't be any less effective than him in that role and Tex still has time to mature.
I think its only a matter of time though. Once Studge and Firmino are fit he'll play more and were not going to drop a defender, Milner, Hendo, Coutinho or Benteke for them. That leaves Ibe and Lallana.
I agree - I can understand playing Lallana now (although I rather give Markovic a chance in an advanced position) but just don't agree with how he's being used.
BR has blatantly looked at our start and said "**** performances for the first block of 4". Lallana is part of an invincible team that is yet to concede. Job done so far.
