We sold him
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Completely lost my appetite after last night. Normally I’m quite sanguine after a bad result, but now this is a bigger crisis than when we lost Virg, Matip, and Joe to injury.
At least then we knew the reason why, right now we have no idea.
And when Slot says he’s confused, well…
Everyone keeps highlighting Wharton as a DM when to he isn’t not on his own, would be good as a double pivot.
He is an exceptional passer though
10 points? 3 wins and a draw with the rest being losses in the league or 2 win, 4 draws ? We just got battered by NFO and PSV…I have no idea where the next win will come…
How many times are people going to mention our losses, we know, don’t need you to keep reminding us, worse than Slot with set pieces.
I haven’t voted but if I had to I’d vote for Ekitike. I really don’t agree with people suggesting Dom was our best player last night. Lots of effort sure, but he was part of a midfield trio that was missing for 3 of their goals and left our right hand side so wide open we’re at risk of a farm tax.
Fuck me, I thought I’d seen us at our most horrible in the past but last night was pathetic.
The standard of performance was so poor, that Dom working hard earns him some credit. Ekitike showed more on the ball than anyone else, and after that its only about effort. At least Dom looks like he cares
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How the fuck is Mo being left on the pitch, time after time. He provides nothing again tonight. At least Cody looked like he may create something. Mo looks like he’s won a competition to play for our team. For me this is the single biggest inditement on Slot and that he can’t see this means I think he may have run his course here.
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I’ll give him that yes. But I honestly cant get my head around what our midfield shape is trying to achieve in attack. There’s no shape to it at all.
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Playing with only 10 men (Mo) is certainly part of the problem. I’d suggest that both Mo and Alexis shouldn’t be playing. I’d also love to see Konate dropped although he may end up having to come back if/when Jo inevitably gets injured.
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No way back for Slot now.
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Just discovering the result.
I’m lost for words. 
Edit: how did the boys play? I read that we at least got back from 0-1 to 1-1, and started the second half brightly before conceding the 1-2.
Oh, and Ekitike’s injury is really the finishing touch to what has been a horrible season so far.
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For the last half hour? Like a pub team with a hangover.
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We didn’t start the 2nd half brightly if you count 90 seconds as brightly
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Like in the previous match, then… And before that?
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Dom was the only one in there winning balls back in midfield and trying to set us away, plus he got us back in the game when we drew level. Yes he’s everywhere on the pitch but doesn’t mean he can be in 5 places at once.
Ekitike got the ball in promising positions but he just ran into trouble time and time again when the early shot was on.
I actually thought Kerkez was our only other decent player on the night besides Dom (& maybe Fede), he played with urgency and got snuck in.
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Fair observation, I think. We have gone from battling for a late winner/ come back to just giving up.
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My point being, is he where he is supposed to be? We seem to lose the ball in advanced positions with some or all of the midfield ahead of the ball and that leaves a huge hole which the opposition simply stroll into.
Tactically we are a complete mess. Throw in being slow to recover at times and there’s really no wonder.
Players are performing badly, but our shape is all wrong.
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Frustratingly
It was a horrible start and I don’t know what Virgil was thinking for the pen. It set the tone for a performance from him that really reminded me of the worst version of Gerrard. I’m going to have have to charge round like a fucking maniac doing everything, because you lot are shit.
Then, surprisingly, they coped pretty well with the set back and took control of the game. They got the equaliser fairly quickly, and penned back PSV. They really should have gone in at half time well ahead. They were playing well.
Then half time. I have absolutely no idea what Slot said to them in the break, but in retrospect it must have been quite something to suck the energy out of the team as much as it did.
They don’t recover from the second goal. And the third should really be the end of Konate’s Liverpool career - if only we had someone to replace him with. The fourth you can write off as the kind of thing that happens to a desperate team chasing the game.
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It seemed to me we were actually making more sprints back. Even including Mo at times. But it felt all a bit like the Ten Hag style. Dom would sprint to press, but then we were disjointed and one or two switching off to allow easy passing lanes to be open.
Case in point, we are down, we’ve put on Isak. Yes, he’s not match fit etc. But then we try to do a press, Dom closes one player, the ball is passed to another close to Isak, and Dom being 15 yards behind Isak actually passes him to close down the next player.
Just a microcosm of the disjointedness.
The underlapping full backs are also doing my head in. Gakpo and Mo staying out wide while Kerkez doing what can only be described as sprinting practice running the inside channel as there seems to be no cohesive plan from his runs.
Last 20 minutes, some are visibly gassed, yet only two subs were used. I understand that Joe Gomez, Endo, etc are not the panacea, but what’s the point of running Dom to the ground while some are standing gassed out.
And then there’s the Groundhog Day with Gakpo missing a sitter when the game is at a crucial junction. The less said about Konate the better.
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