It is weird that Klopp continues to stick with his 433.
Just feels like he doesn't have a plan B.
It is weird that Klopp continues to stick with his 433.
Just feels like he doesn't have a plan B.
I wonder how FSG are viewing this season. Must be tempting to consider it a write off given the injury list, but you simply cannot escape a lot of the players have gone backwards.
Frankie Lamps was the same in his second season. I think a lot of them are just so wedded to shape at the moment that in-match creativity is too much for them. In a sense you can't blame them, as everyone is completely knackered, so you have to have something to fall back on.
My mans seriously comparing Klopp to OGS and Lampard
Your mans are (or is, I'm not sure of the grammar there) surveying the broken carcass of top flight football currently and seeing not a lot of difference across any of the clubs except for City who have the two XIs they can rotate.
We'd be up there if we weren't hit with an injury crisis for the ages. Everyone else is as they were last season although that fucking German autist now has Chelsea as serious CL contenders within a month of sporadic training sessions
Injury crisis You've had a few sicknotes getting their annual injuries and one member of the first XI being decked by Jordan Pickford.
How do we escape this relentless cycle though? Euros in the summer. World Cup next winter. Afcon and the Copa are bound to be on 4 or 5 times in a year as well somehow. There is going to be no let up for years, or ever.
Liverpool just need to play Fabinho in midfield and let the actual defenders sort themselves out (or not) at the back.
I'm sure it's nothing really to do with him, but Thiago must have had one of the most spectacularly bad impacts on a team ever, if one was looking for such correlations. When did he make his comeback? The West Brom game? Top of the league and coasting. 3 wins in 10 since (it's probably worse than that)?
Hopefully the Leipzig game is in Hungary again. Maybe we should move all our games out there.
It will all come to a head at some point soon when there is a massive three-way war between FIFA, UEFA and the Big Clubs. Christ knows what the outcome will be.
Is 2024 still the end of time on the Mayan, I mean, International Football Calendar?
We have had various worst states during the season but we seem to now have really recovered to being in the fantastic position of being able to field our 4th and 6th/7th choice CBs as a solid partnership.
At most recent count I saw a week or two back, our absences had a combined cost of 204 games this season, twice the amount of the next worst off, Leicester.
23 CB partnerships across games in all competitions this season.
Only 10 players have been available for more than half of the teams games this season.
Only 4 players now haven't been injured or unavailable for at least 3 weeks of the season.
These pundits and locked down soulless cretins who have been deprived of the clubs for 16 months are thirsty af for narratives and seem to think Klopp and the same players who have proven themselves over a sustained period of time have somehow lost it. It's cute but it's bollocks. How we're still in CL and likely to still make top four is testament to their quality.
Newcastle United have failed to get the chairman booted off the arbitration case. The Club (tm) spotted numerous instances of the chairman withholding information regarding BeIN sports but the Court of Arbitration was all, "Heh. Nah."
The injuries have been quite convenient for Liverpool. They were pants after THE RESTART and up until Pickford chopped Van Dijk.
Either way that front line isn't winning another league title.
Not forgetting they sold Lovren and didn't replace him. It's not bad luck, it's poor planning.
It is, I know it's been a year where financial prudence was needed but making the exact same mistake City did with Fernandinho last year was negligent to be honest. Fabinho filling in every now & then would have been ok if VVD hadn't gotten injured but to go into the season with only three centre-backs and two of them having very poor injury records was asking for trouble. As soon as you take Fabinho & then Henderson out of the midfield it just throws everything else out of kilter and anyone could see that coming from a mile off.
The Jota injury was unlucky up until he was out the front three were being rotated and it was working but it happens. The defensive situation has then meant a total lack of rotation in midfield for the past months as Chamberlain & Keita also can't be trusted to be fit and now it's catching up because Wijnaldum especially has pretty much played every minute of every game.
Villa did the same the year we came up. We were 13th in March for a reason. Think it was Chester, Elphick and Tuanzebe for the first half of the season. Tuanzebe and Elphick got injured and Bruce ruined Chester's career pumping him full of meds until Jan. Fortunately we loaned Mings and Hause in January, as we were trying everyone at centre half. Hutton, Jedinak, Elmo. Couldn't defend for shit. Mings transformed us and then Tuanzebe came back and we were away. Fortunate though.
Maybe should have chucked Ł20m at some random defender (rather Thiago) but then, what do you get for that? Schalke wanted (still want?) more for this Kabak chancer and I think Klopp was (is) very conscious of not wanting to impede the development of the likes of Gomez. That said I was all aboard the Koulibaly boat last summer.
You can say they made the same mistake as City, but then, what was City's mistake? Not replacing Kompany? They had Ł150m worth of central defenders still knocking around the club. Being overly reliant on Laporte? He barely gets a game now. Short of having unlimited resources I'm not sure how you cope with losing all of your senior centre halves (City lost one) to season ending injuries before the season is even half done (and much much less in terms of the main pairing). Klopp should stop being a tit and just play the ones he has though, rather than cobbling midfielders in there all the time.
In other news, I see they've had to change the handball rule again. A Fulham fan might be able to help me with this but it seems to me that every time they get fucked over by one the rule then changes going forward (the Salah penalty), until the new rule, or another aspect of the existing rule screws them and then it gets revised again (this latest one). And they never see the benefit.
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Get Mbappe and Haaland in a red shirt and ignore the fact that we’ve no centrehalves with legs.
I'm a twit
Kabak is now injured and out of the Fulham game at least. Normal service resumed.
Are Exeter banned from playing at 3pm on a Saturday? They seem to play at 1pm every week
Yep, that's positive.
Jesus Christ... Lacazette screaming (twice) like he's been fucking shot.
Goal of the season contender there from Chris Wood.
I only John was alive for this Rangers title.
Haaland on for a hat trick away to Bayern. Were 2-0 after 8 mins but 2-1 now. They’ll probably lose 5-3 or something
2-2 at half time. Lewandowski already at 30 league goals for this season.
Villa-Wolves a fascinating match so far. Second half is tempting but I've been reading up on auto-erotic asphyxiation and it really does look worth a try.
9 goals needed in 10 matches from Lewandowski to hit 40.
They fine 2 guys coming up to buy a car from England but not a single rangers fan.
The scenes outside Parkhead will be special next weekend if Rangers win the league later today
Klopp fully asking for the sack now. The two Williams' up against prime cut BLM talent
That's fucking grim.
So is this Liverpool just sacking off the league in favour of the champions league or are they just being fair to Fulham (having chucked home games against Burnley and Brighton already)?
Heavily suggest the former. I'd have expected only a couple of changes if it were the latter.
Hahahaha Sellick.
I don't think I've disliked a Liverpool player more than I dislike Salah.
I'll take a point given how knackered the side is but man, Fulham could snatch those points easily. Maja's eagerness is a big difference.
It’s a shame Lookman doesn’t really have an end product the majority of the time as he’s great to watch
Great camera work whilst Maja was changing his shorts.