JOHN GIBBONS was joined by Andy Heaton, Paul Senior and Stuart Wright in the immediate aftermath of Liverpool suffering their first defeat of Jürgen Klopp’s tenure.
Basically, it was all Mignolet’s fault.
Again.
JOHN GIBBONS was joined by Andy Heaton, Paul Senior and Stuart Wright in the immediate aftermath of Liverpool suffering their first defeat of Jürgen Klopp’s tenure.
Basically, it was all Mignolet’s fault.
Again.
Mr Can costing us points. The problem is we have no one to replace him. Dont think he is good enough at the moment. Handerson needs to be back before mr can cost us more. Fed up of conceding soft goals.
Palace just love to do us in don’t they…
Completely agree with Andy, if we put another away and we can defend a set piece then we come away with a 2-1 win with a good performance where we’ve been all over a team who’ve caused us so many problems recently, stopping there main threats, and there’s no moaning really and we’re happy.
I don’t think Can was having a particularly bad game when he was hooked. He was growing into it. The game was growing around him. I know he made the second mistake for the goal (after Moreno) and he did a Gerrardesque through ball to their centre-forward in the second half. But he looked alright carrying the ball from midfield and he forces players to advance and move. No one runs in behind. Once Can turns around (which can seem forever) he was direct and moved the team forward. He is a physical presence. He probably weighs as much as Coutinho, Lallana, Moreno and Clyne put together. They do not move when anyone else travels with the ball, including Ibe.
Ibe was our most attacking threat, but a lot the time it looks like his first touch is so poor he has no choice but to run after the ball and take people on. Maybe that’s a ploy.
Why doesn’t Benteke run channels? Why doesn’t he try and run behind defenders? It doesn’t matter what sort of player he or anyone else thinks he is. Yesterday he was a centre-forward and he played along the same line as Ibe, Coutinho, Lallana and later Formino. All of them want to drop off, play in behind, go towards the ball when it’s in the middle of the pitch. Non of them gave movement (without the ball) to open up the defence, force a through ball, put their centre backs under pressure. Not once. There where a couple of crosses that Benteke didn’t look to attack or anticipate would even happen.
Every time we broke we ended up with 5 players looking at each on the edge of the area. No one knows what to do in the box. There isn’t a natural instinct for goal.
Courtinho has a natural instinct to drop a shoulder and shoot from 30 yards out. Palace showed every Prem side will soon have a natural instinct to deal with that.
I’m supprised Moreno gets away every game with so little critismism. He was again our poorest performer. He gave the ball away for the first. He pushed a player in the box for no reason at all. He is the most unintelligent player with or without the ball that I’ve ever seen. He runs alongside opposition attackers without a clue what to do. Courtinho does so much good work and has Moreno as his only outlet which is always wasted. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve screamed at Moreno to help Courtino in the press. When Phil has someone penned in or under pressure, Moreno jumps up and down on the spot and watches. He never double up with him. I’m pretty sure if you threw a stick for Moreno, he’d fetch it during one of his aimless (but crowd pleasing) runs.
Lallana does so much good work and he’s probably the nearest we’ve got at the moment to someone who can actually get into a CF position, but when he strikes the ball, it’s like he’s kicking a medicine ball.
Firmino for Can was possibly the strangest (and last change mos would have made) to the shape and dynamic of the team. That was a mistake. It’s fare to say (as it’s justified critismism) that might have cost us.