Interview with Harvey’s dad - from EotK, the article listed the video at about 18/19th minute and talked about Harvey’s goal, his recovery, how his family wanted to ease Pascal Struijk’s mind.
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18 years and 318 days!
Harvey Elliott becomes the YOUNGEST player in Liverpool’s history to start a European game.
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I’m afraid that Elliott is still too inexperienced to play against such a tactically strong side - and away to them no less - but credit to Klopp for showing faith in him, especially after such a long lay-off. The lad has had a poor match but I can’t even begin to imagine how much heart he will take from it.
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Did he have a poor match? I thought he was our best midfielder in large spells of the first half…
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He was good but faded very very quickly second half though, no surprise at all as that was played at a freakishly high tempo and pressing from both sides none stop.
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Inter have some very good, very savvy players in their midfield. It will have been an invaluable lesson.
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Wasn’t the worst out there.
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Showed his inexperience but great for him to play tonight and gain such experience, I will do him the world of good.
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The combination of him and Trent was a disaster on that side, totally dominated. They need to know how to adapt when things are going so badly.
Yeah, wasn’t the best game for him or from him. Sligthly surprised he started. We probably had a proactive idea, but in the end, their left side caused a bit more problems than our (starting) right side caused them. In the return, with also Barella back (although on the opposite side of central midfield), I’d probably like Hendo back.
Edit: Sorry, Barella is suspended also for the return leg, which is great for us.
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I genuinely didn’t feel that way, I thought that they were a lot busier because they were overloaded respective to our left, but that was more a tactical move by Inter rather than any actual difference in how they were playing. One way in which I judge that is that Inter didn’t really have a sniff on goal anyway, with the combination of Konaté, Trent, and Elliott snuffing out almost everything that came down that way despite how much they tried to make it happen…
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If starting Elliot last night wasn’t enough to get Fabio Carvalho over the line then nothing will…
Can only see positives for the kid and LFC after his cameo on the CL stage… Would have been different if we lost by two goals though :0)
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I remember the bad old days when a disaster with us being dominated resulted in at least one shot on target. Especially against a top team like Inter Milan who are back to being up there again.
Harvey may not have taken the game by the scruff of the neck like he sometimes has but I think reactions are being a bit over the top. He wasn’t that bad and it was as much tactical as anything taking him off. We weren’t having joy with the move of Elliott popping wide and Trent drifting into the middle so we changed and Keita stayed more central with Trent staying wide more, combined with Diaz drifting to provide and exploit width on either wing as needed.
It was great tactics from us to react to them successfully setting up in a way that caused us problems trying to break through. Their left was their strong side so think that caused us to look worse on that side than we really were too.
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Tactical??? He’s just coming back from a serious injury, and has played a few games. Kid needs a break, tactical changes or not. Don’t think anything can be read into the substitution…
(Yes I’m aware that’s not contradicting your post)
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That’s also a very good point and Elliott was probably never likely to play all 90 minutes.
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I am not bothered what tactics nor players Jurgen uses in these games, or if we only just scrape past Inter…
As long as… he is prepping and tweaking for what lies ahead in the way the Cheaters play.
Practice his ideas now on the bigger stage… unleash against Pep… they are the big hurdle to climb over on the way to No.7 :0)
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Context;
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Inter did hit the bar, though, something that stats won’t tell us.
Still not sure thats enough to consider it a “disaster” and them dominating us or that it was Elliotts fault. We had more possession, more shots, more shots on target and 2 goals to none. People are talking like we were under the cosh. I thought they had a couple of threatening moments and one good period after half time but apart from that we were comfortable and just struggling to break them down. But this was an away game in the Champions League against a top side. Think people are just being too demanding on their expectations.
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