Not sure why everyone is trying to pinpoint a player whos fault was it yesterday that we conceded 7 goals.
My take on it was that Adrian had only one serious mistake yesterday and it was the first goal obviously. Dont want to crucify him, and we should defo all get back to supporting him so we dont need a kepaesque loss of confidence now when Ali is out. Last time Ali was out he won all of his games so he surely has done it before.
The defence was poor, they were rattled and they have been showing very concerning symptoms of over confidence lately. The Leeds and villa games are very good examples of this. Every team will target that right hand side now, when Trent is defending as well as my nan would and leaving Gomez out in the cold all the time. I mean the difference between Trent and robbo yesterday was so huge, that it very much leaves me concerned for our right backs as neco williams definitely isnt an upgrade on trent defensively. Virg did not make obvious errors but the captains armband gives you more responsibility over the whole teams performance.
The midfield was probably the most problematic yesterday. Gini and Naby lost fucking every second ball yesterday, and our game rely hugely on winning those second balls. I’m not sure was attitude the problem or if they had shockers of a game but both of them should take a long look into the mirror (or hendo’s performances) and think again what is expected of them. To be that shit against championship level midfielders is definitely not ok.
Salah and Jota were ok, Bobby was shit. I really would like to see the old Bobby back.
The subsitutes other than milly were also shit. Jones and Taki both invisible. Milly was the only one showing the spirit we need, and if he starts instead of gini or naby against Everton Im sure that we at least will see the real fighting spirit that epitomises Liverpool f.c.
Three things that annoy me going forward:
First is that those players should be running suicides for the next week, but they all get to go away with their national teams, change their mindset to that and hide away from this result. I hope Jürgen starts as many players staying back at melwood as possible in the derby.
Second is that those smug villa fans now can celebrate the only Triumph of their lives for two weeks. Silver lining is that grealish will leave as soon as someone is ready to pay the money for him, and everyone will see that he is an average player when the whole teams is not set up round him, and villa is a one man player and all the money they get from him will be spent on flavours of the month players from championship.
Third, this gives every team we are facing the rest of the season the culprit on how to beat us. The idea of richarlison attacking Trent and Joe feels very bad at this minute.
This was a real embarrasment which I haven’t seen before, but as we all know we just need to believe, get behind the team and support them with all we have and Jürgen will turn this around now. We all need to also remember that it will be long season and the title race will be decided much later than last season(please no we won it in july comments) and we will have much more ups and downs this season.