Rating - will leave to Brendan, whom I think well need to give a few 2s and 3s today ...
* The arrogance of leaving behind the only fit midfielder we have who carry the ball forward with pace and create havoc with his movement and passing was a big mistake in hindsight. Who replaces what he can do from the middle? Who? Yah, this team misses what Ox gave us last year ...
* The midfield 3 has a lot of good things about them, but they gave us NO push, NO press, NO moving the ball quickly, NO attacking passes, NO quality movement in the final 3rd and one horrible mistake that led to their 2nd goal. Sorry, this cannot happen going forward. Klopp has GOT to start with an attacking midfield - even if that means our 'feared front 3' - who have yet to click (if they ever do again) - will become a 'feared front 2'.
* Allison on the 2nd goal was poor - De Gea saves that ... with his eyes closed.
* TAA - second straight poor game, this time in the attacking third. Maybe Klopp realized this when he dropped him against City ... Something is up with him too - and whatever it is - I hope he gets over it soon as he's a brilliant talent. That being said, it's amazing how last year's "TAA is so far ahead of Gomez" has become ...
* I said it a few times in the match thread but I'm starting to really worry about Salah. Is he injured? Is it the trauma of the world cup crap with the Egyptian FA? or is this the Salah some people thought we were signing? I don't have the answer but he is fucking up more and more moves in the final 1/3 ... and we're not good enough to win with our supposed best player being so wasteful.
* Bobby's downturn this year must be a delight to some. I have no idea what the fuck is happening here either but we need last year's Bobby back bad.
* We need to find a way to make Mane our 'primary' attacking threat. Yes, he missed a really good chance but I think he's the best we have right now in term of attitude, aggression, speed and ability to change games ...
* Lallana - Klopp cannot go with this guy anymore unless it's a FA Cup game or if we fuck up against Napoli and end up in the Europa League. He is too slow on the ball, and when we're struggling so much, he only adds to our lethargy.
* Studge - really surprised he didn't do more. Really odd as he's been good this season.
* Lastly, Fulham becomes a must win imo. We need to fucking hammer them - not for GD, fuck that. We need to hammer them because our team is lacking belief on the pitch, and it's showing. our attacking players are 'relying' on our defense to win games for us and it's worked so far, but we NEED fucking goals.
* The arrogance of leaving behind the only fit midfielder we have who carry the ball forward with pace and create havoc with his movement and passing was a big mistake in hindsight. Who replaces what he can do from the middle? Who? Yah, this team misses what Ox gave us last year ...
* The midfield 3 has a lot of good things about them, but they gave us NO push, NO press, NO moving the ball quickly, NO attacking passes, NO quality movement in the final 3rd and one horrible mistake that led to their 2nd goal. Sorry, this cannot happen going forward. Klopp has GOT to start with an attacking midfield - even if that means our 'feared front 3' - who have yet to click (if they ever do again) - will become a 'feared front 2'.
* Allison on the 2nd goal was poor - De Gea saves that ... with his eyes closed.
* TAA - second straight poor game, this time in the attacking third. Maybe Klopp realized this when he dropped him against City ... Something is up with him too - and whatever it is - I hope he gets over it soon as he's a brilliant talent. That being said, it's amazing how last year's "TAA is so far ahead of Gomez" has become ...
* I said it a few times in the match thread but I'm starting to really worry about Salah. Is he injured? Is it the trauma of the world cup crap with the Egyptian FA? or is this the Salah some people thought we were signing? I don't have the answer but he is fucking up more and more moves in the final 1/3 ... and we're not good enough to win with our supposed best player being so wasteful.
* Bobby's downturn this year must be a delight to some. I have no idea what the fuck is happening here either but we need last year's Bobby back bad.
* We need to find a way to make Mane our 'primary' attacking threat. Yes, he missed a really good chance but I think he's the best we have right now in term of attitude, aggression, speed and ability to change games ...
* Lallana - Klopp cannot go with this guy anymore unless it's a FA Cup game or if we fuck up against Napoli and end up in the Europa League. He is too slow on the ball, and when we're struggling so much, he only adds to our lethargy.
* Studge - really surprised he didn't do more. Really odd as he's been good this season.
* Lastly, Fulham becomes a must win imo. We need to fucking hammer them - not for GD, fuck that. We need to hammer them because our team is lacking belief on the pitch, and it's showing. our attacking players are 'relying' on our defense to win games for us and it's worked so far, but we NEED fucking goals.