Yeah…and they live in la la land
One of the most frustrating players I’ve seen for this club, 8 games out of 10 world class, then the other two a bunch of complacent displays of arrogance.
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Still, some of the passses he played last night… just wow.
He hits 5-6 of those per game which most players will struggle to do in half a season.
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He wasn’t that bad last night. I’ve seen criticism of him for the goal but you could say the same about Henderson and god knows what Virgil was trying to do. The most disappointing part of his play was his set piece delivery. Leicester are hopeless at defending corners but Trent continually over hit the inswingers. If he was deliberately aiming to send in high looping balls to the back post then there was something wrong in our analysis.
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I think overall he didn’t play his best, but he wasn’t bad. It does show however that we are rather dependent on him being at a good standard. If some of his cross-field passes to Tsimikas had led to goals, I have a feeling the narrative this morning would have been very different, without any difference in his play.
If anything, I thought that his main flaws were simply the accuracy of some of his passes down the flank, but as a team, we were very much guilty of that, not just him.
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His passing was good but defensively he was a horror show. I thought he looked knackered by 60 minutes, he was running in treacle for the rest of the game. One to forget.
I’m not sure why he’s doing it,maybe a change in tactic and to stop other teams knowing what trent is going to do everytime he gets the ball,but lately every so often he’s been moving into a central position on the edge of the oppositions box and switching with Henderson,it’s the reason he was caught out for the Leicester goal,trying to track back from a position I feel he shouldn’t be in.
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I think a lot of criticism on Alexander-Arnold defensively comes down to things like this. We aren’t privy to what instructions they are getting and how they are being told to set up defensive shape wise. Most criticism of him defensively tends to revolve around him being “in the wrong” position when they attack. I’ve a feeling that actually he’s under instructions to act in a way fullbacks traditionally don’t as he’s also our chief playmaker so it makes sense to have him more free than traditional and the 8 on that side more tied up. Only musing but if people don’t know what he’s supposed to be doing they may be frustrated with him while Klopp remains happy as Trent keeps acting certain ways.
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We’ve set a very high bar for Trent. We not only expect him to be our chief playmaker playing as an auxiliary central midfielder but we also expect him to simultaneously act as a conventional right back, covering counter attacks and being in the right place at the right time all the time. To a certain extent JK has adapted the team tactics around Trent and his unique talents. There’s a high risk/reward around that and we just have to take the rough with the smooth sometimes.
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Although your wording is nebulous, if you’re referring to the Leicester match, I’ve watched it 3 times through and I don’t think he hit 3 passes that were good and I’m struggling to find “5 or 6 which most players will struggle to do in half a season”.
This is an example of the same hyperbolic praise (of various players) you have shown such disdain for in other threads.
You watched the game 3 times? Wow. 
Of course, we all have our own evaluations…
Yeah, I think some of his passes in that game were brilliant. Perhaps my phrase is exaggerated, but some of the passes he picks out (and not only long balls over to the left side, which most players can do, although Trent has more variety or crosses) are out of this world. How often he does it as well.
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I think it may be a case of Trent hitting them so often it’s possible to lose sight of the fact that we don’t expect FB’s to be able to make monstrous raking passes like that. Fuck, we don’t expect anyone not named Xabi to be able to make them. But he does 4 in a half and we view them as par for the course.
I once had a coach who was setting us defensively in a way that theoretically made us susceptible to that long diagonal ball. I raised the issue with him and he laughed, saying “if we come up against a side who has one player who can hit that pass then we’re going to lose no matter how we set up.”
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I don’t think he had a particularly good game passing the ball, apart from his cross-field passes to the left side to be honest. Certainly not to the level he’s used to reaching. Can’t recall a dangerous cross or pass into the box for instance although to be fair neither he or Tsimikas had a lot of targets to choose from as the forwards decided to spend the entire game rooted to a spot and wait for the ball to drop to their feet. But that can happen to anyone.
What’s more difficult to get past was his lack of effort getting back. Being out of position is one thing, jogging back after getting bypassed is quite another.
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I put that partly also down to Leicester’s good deep defending. Have to give them credit for some inside the box deep defending. You rarely see that we struggle so much to find a free man. Even with a lot of backup players, sometimes it happens, they seem like playing altogether on a higher level than usually. We should know that is possible, since we saw it plenty of times at Liverpool over the years and decades…
Trent has learnt to stroke the ball with his foot to get it to land exactly where he wants it to…
not an easy thing to do…
If only Sadio could learn to caress the ball with his feet like that, he would have guided that chance past Schmeichel the other night…
Instead, for some reason known only to him, his ankles, knees and hip joints turn into Pinocchio mode.!
What about his nose then? 
:0)
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It’s Greek to me. I love a good Stat but do they have to make it so complicated.
Its the player who has created the most dangerous passes from that mini area of the pitch. Trent absolutely dominates the whole side of the pitch. He’s the only player to appear more than once.
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