and the best midfield is last years - if fit, they must play before our confidence is a pre Klopp levels
one obvious one is play Gomez as RB or even as one of three CB's to give us a bit more aerial ability .
whatever he wants to use going forward - although Gomez got turned inside out yesterday so I’d be concerned if he played there…..and we only have 3 CB’s total. If one gets injured, we’ll be on bare bones….not that it’d be much different.
No. No more than we were going to romp the league when we won our first five games. We are going to struggle to make Top 5 and get to the knockout stages of the CL, though, and struggle enormously. I honestly believe there's worse to come before we turn this around.
Either macallister is.fit.or he is not Either endo is a player or he is not. Marmadashvilli Bradley konate vvd Robertson Endo macallister Chiesa Szoboszlai wirtz Ekitike If anyone is returning to fitness they can sit on the bench. Salah and gakpo stunk the place out this weekend. I want to see someone at least putting themselves about.
it;s not so much who we bought but the numbers of first team squad members who left has left us really light on options / cover imo
No matter who plays or what formation we implement, one thing is for certain... we need to fill that massive hole in midfield!
Honesty from Andy Robertson's after the loss to Brentford... "We were just a yard off it... We’ve worked on the long-throw and everything, and five minutes in you concede three long throw-ins. One of them you concede from. It’s not good enough, you play into their hands and have got an uphill battle from there. Kept fighting but nowhere near good enough. "We didn’t play our (gameplan) at all... If we expect that, then we’re in big bother... You’re 3-1 down and it’s just about throwing bodies forward and it becomes chaotic. There’s no structure to it which is never good... if we got a draw today it would have probably flattered us. "We’ve got to work harder. In training, in games, recovering better. When you’re at this football club, people demand results... The results have been nowhere near good enough over the last five or six games." https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1JhdxdznaC/
It was very funny watching us play 5 up. 0.midfield and hoof it. Be it marmadashvilli inability to pass it or the midfield disaster i dont know.
We've got to stop conceding first. Don't know if its because we're not switched on from minute one or because we trying to score early, but whatever it is conceding that first goal (usually early) means we're having to stretch and play too open for the rest of the game in an attempt just to get level. Next few games we need to be solid for the first 20-30mins and then build into the game. We probably need to be boring for a while to get back to the levels needed.
Its pussy ball Its nowt to do with trying to score. Did you see thebstste of how they got that long throw in the first place. Bullshit ball out to him and him being that thick **** not able to keep a ball on the park. Its all self inflicted. Get in their grills. Impose yourself. Chiesa came on and put himself about. Seriously watching kerkez trying to defend two while gakpo fancied about. Its simply.not good enough
If I were an opposition manager, I'd be sending my players out all guns blazing at the start against us. We've been slow starters ever since Slot arrived.
I’ve said it all season. We lack width going forward, everything comes inside. We are easy to defend against, although we always do score eventually. Just feel like we are too one dimensional going forward. The full back play a big part here but the seemingly don’t know whether to stick or twist. secondly, our centre has been soft. Really soft. Whether due to injuries or fitness, I don’t know but it’s lacking. finally, our CB’s look off it. And we miss Alisson. Other than looking off the pace, we do not look like a team at all. It’s all very disjointed. I would be surprised if GvB keeps his job….and Slot will not be far behind at this rate.
Well the width should be coming from the full backs but kerkez has been a bit of an odd one. Has sat in a lot as a back 3 often which isn’t his strength but then when has gone forward, gakpo just doesn’t use him on the overlap - something slot even pointed out himself in that gakpos strength is cutting in but needs to work on that relationship. As such we don’t seem to be getting behind defence using that pace and width how we should. Frimpong actually did half decent job at RW the other day as he stayed wide best his man and go in some decent balls.
I only saw the second half. Great goal from Salah from a fine assist. We left it very late to start putting in effort to try and score. It was never a penalty. The only way to right the wrongs of poor officiating is to keep scoring which we can't seem to do atm. It's easier to find a way through with one or two players in poor form but harder when it's the whole team, Szoboszlai aside. I'm not sure what to make of this new keeper, he's enormous but somehow makes himself smaller. He's not commanding his area at all. Has made some good saves though.
