Don’t care what anyone says…
the majority of those LFC players looked as though they have had too much xmas pud recently…!
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I thought our front 3 tired on the initial press and Leicester were able to play around and through it too easily + the midfield were too slow to back up the press especially in the 2nd half.
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I agree. It was notable that on several occasions they had one player able to carry it 30-40 yards. That should not happen against us, but if press isnt working that can often be the natural result of it if there is someone aggressive enough on the other team to take advantage of it.
I felt like our midfield 3 were sitting too deep at points in that game, bunched far closer to the backline than the forwards, so it was like the front 3 were isolated in their pressing. Like you say, break through that initial pressure and you have space to run in midfield.
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I don’t think tactics and analysis hide any answers…
It was all psychological yesterday. Something not right. Those having a go at some of our players ought to re-think why they are here.
Also thought that maybe would have been better had we played Leeds Sunday and had to play this lot with 5-6 kids again.
Maybe our main guys had too many Christmas dinner 2nd helpings. Maybe this little pandemic affected them (imagine that).
I don’t really care anymore. I’m enjoying what all our guys and our manager are giving us during this horrible time.
Oh and I really wish that the Prince’s army soon enjoy playing the powerful slightly better paid Saudi mercenaries and the Russian mafia. It’ll be a great spectacle in about 5 years with (Ronaldo and Messi in their mid forties).
And we’ll all then welcome Qatar and Bahrain and have a proper mercenary PL. Hope they play each other and Paris in the CL until they all turn blue in face.
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On the otherhand when we had the ball our midfield were pushing too high leaving too much space between them and the defense. With TAA and Tsimikas also very high it really does expose our 3 at the back particulary if we’re forcing it and losing the ball cheaply.
Once the midfield is beaten there’s really nothing stopping the opposition as both Matip and VVD pedal back so fast the midfield can not keep up. Fabinho really does need to keep better discipline (also doesn’t help that TAA and Hendo switch TAA taking the center and Hendo going wide, I mean why do we do that?).
Really?
There was a lot tactically wrong and a lot that could easily be changed. I agree that off form strikers in one match isn’t the end of the world but some of what was going on behind them was quite dire.
However yes I’m enjoying it too but I do like analysis and criticism. All part of sport imo.
So in other words, we need real sugar daddies like those middle eastern folks to bankroll this club??
These ultra rich folks are rich for reasons that can be unsavory…
needed a couple of days to calm down after that very disappointing display and result. Terribly frustrated with the attitude of some of the players. Hope Klopp gave them a reality check of their responsibility towards all the people who support the club.
The thought I’ve been coming to is that maybe we can either be conditioned to play twice a week, or once a week. But not both.
It’s probably not as simple as ‘rest = good’. We’ve seen this the opposite way round, where we’ve been on a two game a week rhythm and battered a team that has played for ten days.
The Leeds cancellation fucked us, because that meant a nine day gap for the players we’d earmarked to play the league games. Fitness dropped off, and that meant we looked off it.
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I think the once a week is not itself a problem, but the nine day gap is potentially - it was not nine days managed as a gap, but two intervals with a missing match in between. I suspect that practice 2 days before the Leeds game was designed to be quite mild. Not a decisive factor, but very likely a contributing one.
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Analyze away. Hope you’ll find the answer in tactics as to why Mo missed the penalty and the follow-up header. You’ll then find the answer as to why Jota was always a subsecond too slow to shoot, or Sadio missing one of the best chances he’s ever had.
It was a performance that happens rarely any more (used to happen a lot in Jurgen’s first 2 seasons).
it’s in their heads and there are psychological and maybe form-related answers.
Too many people are over thinking and over analysing it…just one of those days. I have seen many of those in my 60 plus years watching Liverpool… …
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You’re telling me.
I’ve just had a quick scan of the thread and even the throw in coach is getting it.
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For corners, no less.
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I suppose the beauty of social media and forums like this is the ability to make instant experts.
It’s also the ugliness of social media.
If he only does throw in’s fair enough, whoever is coaching our set pieces needs sacking then. Woeful at both ends for months.
Yet we’ve scored more goals from set pieces this season than any team.
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