The problem with rotating is that you need players of a similar quality to those that you're resting. It's clear that we don't have a strong squad, and I'm afraid that falls at the feet of Jürgen.
I really hope he can find the right players to bring in to make us stronger, but I'm worried that he's too obsessed with not spending money to do that.
He is in some places, seems utterly disinterested in others. Obsessed with attacking midfielders, disinterested in defensive. He also puts far too much faith in certain players which is undermining us as a squad. Personally I never bought the whole January debacle on players running out of steam. I'm sure some were tired but it was his tactics that were the problem. He, by his own admission, had never seen teams play in such a negative, defensive manner before. It's a peculiarity of our country it seems. We didn't draw so many games because of tiredness, we drew them because we couldn't break teams down, a failing we seem to be repeating this year given we've had more draws this season than anyone other than West Brom.
This rotation for rotation's sake needs to stop, players need to find their rhythm and Klopp most of all needs to understand that he has a subs bench for a purpose and stop waiting until 80 bloody minutes before making a change, and when he does make a change, that change needs to be in accordance with what's going on in the game and not a pre-planned one based upon him thinking so and so is in need of a rest.
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