Since when is 0-0 getting it all right?
I'll concede that winning 0-1 is getting it all right. But, to answer your question anyway, when you are playing away in an European semi final tie and you have 3 first team players out (4 if you include Origi) and you know one of your benched strikers won't put the shift in your require of him for 90 minutes because he hasn't done it for you yet and the other hasn't done much to give you confidence he can make a difference. Also, you're probably thinking of the return leg and probably don't want to risk playing that striker for 6 games in a row (?) because the evidence is that he might get injured.
They were there for the taking tonight.
Agreed. I'm confident we will still go through. I also believe the team we put out tonight was good enough to have gotten a result. But there are no guarantees in football mate.
Had Klopp thrown on one of our strikers for one of our under-performing attacking players we might've won.
I've given my views on why he never needed to bring Studge on. As for Benteke, we all know that ship has sailed and he doesn't figure in Klopp's plans and more importantly, most agree with that. The reason he came on tonight was to waste time with the substitution. Nothing more.
Bringing Jordon Ibe on wasn't a great decision either. He was horrendous.
There was nothing wrong with the decision to bring on Ibe. Nothing at all. Couts was feeling ill so Klopp had to bring someone one. It was a like for like player; attack minded players. Klopp wasn't to know that Ibe would play that bad. Nobody KNEW Ibe would be that bad before he came on. Decisions like that are what managers are paid to make and they do it every week. They don't
know a player will be terrible. He has to trust the player will perform for the club.
Most of us weren't only saying he should have done this or he should have done that after the match has ended. A lot of us were calling for him to bring on one of our strikers during the match too.
I don't agree there was a need. The game was 0-0 and we were pretty much in control. You have to consider that Klopp had 4 players that he couldn't call upon tonight. That dictates what decisions he can make. Who is to say that if Studge did come on, that we would have been under pressure due to Studge's inability to hold the ball up and they might have scored as a result? Just one example.
If you're questioning why Firmino is giving the ball away so often surely the logical decision is to bring him off?
That doesn't necessarily follow. Players give the ball away and make mistakes all the time. Players who play poorly still might play out 90 minutes, all in the hope that one flash of brilliance is all it takes to turn a game on its head. That sort of decision making happens a lot I'm guessing. Fact is, he played Firmino and Firmino, like Ibe, wasn't at the races today. But that sort of thing happens.
Perhaps he
should have brought Studge on, but my point is that up to 92 minutes - he didn't need to.
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