Nah bollox to all that. All those qualities you mention Bobby brings to the team are the good old days when teams gave us lots of space, and Bobby had freedom to link play with ease. Teams have figured us out now and are playing in low blocks giving us much less space in the final third than previous seasons. In this situation Bobby's qualities diminish significantly as he does not have pace to create space in tight areas, and does not have the natural striker instincts to get in to goal scoring positions against tight defences. Drop Jota in to Bobby's position you will see a big difference as he has the pace to get behind defences and is obviously a much better goal scorer.
Seriously? Remember early in the Klopp days, maybe his first full season, we went undefeated against the "top 6" but had a very hard time against the rest of the league? Shitty teams have been playing shitty systems forever, clogging up space. Teams parking the bus against us is not a new phenomenon the past 4 games, FFS.
And guess how you get teams to give you space: By scoring first (shocking, i know), but when your 2 main scorers, Mane and Salah, can't hit water if they fell off a boat, guess what happens? you have difficulty scoring goals (who knew).
Again, this team is built around Salah first and Mane second to score goals (last season these 2 scored more goals than the next 8 highest scoring players combined and the season before they scored more than the entire rest of the team) therefore are the most critical to get scoring again, and yet the moment we struggle you lot run to this thread to cry about dropping Firmino as if that was the solution. How come you're not on the Mane thread? or Salah thread? Mo hasn't scored a meaningful goal in over a month and yet his thread has been quiet for 2 weeks.
Obviously it's not helping Salah and Mane that Trent, who led us in assists the past 2 seasons, has suddenly forgotten how to cross a ball, as well as creativity problems in midfield but Salah is in horrific scoring form and aside if he's not scoring he's basically a passenger and a turnover machine that only enhances the problem.
Firmino's form is part of the problem but the biggest problem right now is not him, it's Salah then Arnold then Mane, but Sadio at least works his ass off in other areas of the field.
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