VVD has been poor this season so far. He had 1 game where I thought he was great but that’s it. Maybe that’s because he never knows what Konate is going to turn up (was good yesterday) and which full backs will be playing.
I don’t think he enjoys playing with Kerkez - you can see him asking Kerkez to talk to him all the time.
I didn’t think he was that bad yesterday, it felt like Neville was out to criticise him from the first minute for anything and everything. It was Konate who was deeper than the other 3 defenders for the first.
We’re playing with zero protection in midfield. That’s more concerning than the form of any of our defenders.
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Yeah I think Konate was better and VVD was fine yesterday. Fact there is zero cover doesn’t help. You always had that third player (CM usually) under Klopp and that’s gone a bit now.
Huh? He’s been our only good defender all season. Yesterday was the first game that he wasn’t babysitting Konate
Konate’s the one who’s been largely below level this season. If there was more quality competition, he would’ve been benched by now. Virgil’s been better for sure, prime example his Arsenal performance, when he was majestic. Yesterday though, yeah, that was one of his weaker days.
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I think Virgil’s biggest issue is that he doesn’t trust Kerkez. You can literally see him panicking when the ball goes into the channel and he doesn’t know if he should leave it for his left back or intervene
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One of our issues is that we’ve picked some very unusual choices at full back for the way we did our build up last season (knowing that there are other successful ways other than having Trent Alexander-Arnold to have a quality build up from deep).
We wanna do it differently this year? Fine, I’m yet to see what’s the idea. Because we already changed it a little bit (which is no problem, but together with our other issues so far, it hasn’t worked). Kerkez tucking in, Kerkez pushed higher and wider.
We believe the likes of Frimpong and Kerkez have what it takes to mould them into something different to what they did so far in their careers? Fine, I have my reservations about some of their skills and potential.
Back to Virgil, yeah, sometimes I feel sorry for him in these last years of his career at the top level that he has to “carry” a lot of things around him. As an isolated situation (football issues are not only solved by changing players), that defence does need help. More help.