Our midfield looked weak and void of ideas. It showed when we lost Hendo to his injury's in the past. We've brought in Fabinho and Keita and again had to pay out on them. Now I don't know if Klopp plans to go with 2 or 1 DM this season but either or will give alot more protection to our back 4. I've heard people on here that they would like another CB because they are not sure on Lovren. Well Lovren improved when he played as a RCB alongside Virgil and after the world cup he's had I bet he's going to be buzzing to get back knowing he's got some classy midfielders in front of him.
Sorry, but posts like this infuriate me.
It's completely irrelevant who our midfielders are to whether Lovren is good enough or not. If it was relevant then why not give me a game at centre half then? I've got Keita and Fabinho infront of me so why not?
Did he improve next to VVD or was our attack that explosive his errors went unnoticed a lot of the time?
Refresh your memory and YouTube dzekos goal in the semi final at anfield. We were up 5-0 at the time so nobody bat an eyelid. But that goal is just classic Lovren. First of all his positioning is a disgrace, he's ten yards behind the rest of the back four. Really school boy stuff. He's nowhere near his man (dzeko), and he completely misjudges the flight of the ball which goes right over his head, straight to dzeko, who then bags with ease. You can stick any midfielder in the world infront of Lovren, stick a hundred infront of him if you want, he will still make that same mistake. The midfield is completely irrelevant.
As I said, we were up 5-0 at the time so nothing came of it. But if we were drawing and dzeko took that chance to win the game then it would have been highlighted much, much more.
If you rate Lovren that's fine. But please don't bring other players into the equation to justify your reasons why.
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