Match Day Thread vs Southampton (H)

He always puts in effort - but he doesn't offer anything else.

 

Best player on the pitch so far

 

Individually I think most players have done well today. The sum of the parts isn't productive though.

 

A lot of people wrote him off and said he couldn't defend.

He wasn't brilliant last season but people wrote the young lad off.

 

We need a win here

 

Sounds familiar

 

Benteke and firmino for lallana and Origi IMO

 

Southampton should have scored. Dreadful first half this

 

I always liked Moreno thought he was better than most people gave him credit (same with Can and Sakho who have made their case this season).

That said Moreno's defending did let him down at times last season.

 

Front 3 are just completely ineffective.

 

Problem is we have no one who wants to run into the box. Origi is goal shy so he tends to avoid getting into the box and Lallana & Coutinho aren't type of players who get into the box. Can is mostly a DM and Milner is a wide midfielder, they aren't going to get in the box regularly either.. We had this problem last year but its even worse with the loss of Sterling. And another thing we lost with Sterling is width, our formation is so narrow at the moment and the full backs aren't doing enough or producing enough when they get into good positions.

 

Good ball from Lala

 

Skrtel is another one I think gets more flak than he deserves. Not saying we shouldn't replace him with someone better but people point out all his flaws and never credit his hard work and all the times he saves us.

If Skrtel were scouse he would be a Kop favourite.

 

Whilst Origi has struggled, he's getting no support from Coutinho or Lallana. Zero creativity.

 

Urg this is grim stuff. January can't come sooner

 

He wastes everything he's ever given. So the players just bypass him. You watch

 

I don't see us improving until Klopp can get some new players in.
For now though, he must bring Benteke and Firmino on

 

So to sum up todays convo our entire team is unfairly under appreciated and are all actually brilliant.....

Or

The entire squad is ineffective dog poo....

 

Dortmund used to overload one side of the pitch which gave a huge amount of space for the full back on the opposite flank, allowing them to get forward easily. Their three forward would play narrow and close together. We did this against Spurs, but not seen much of it today.

 

True. But he needs to create his own to flourish in the current Liverpool squad. That's why Ings and Sturridge score goals and Origi and Benteke haven't so much. Our squad and formations require a hard working creative running forward.