I am far more worried about our midfield than I am about Mignolet or Moreno. We hardly won a tackle or an header in midfield (65/35%). And that was against Arsenal hardly the most physical of teams. If we don't improve (or change personnel) we will be in all sorts of trouble against some of the more powerful midfield runners.
First game of the season so not going to get too carried away, but a win at Arsenal is a great start to the season.
Relieved that Coutinho finally showed up after a strangely quiet period carried over from the end of last season. Our game changer really changed the game with a wonderful free kick.
Great result that is hopefully the start to a great season.
This thread is most probably be the only one that points out what could possibly be a huge chink in the armor. Yes, Moreno is a raging bull with little brain, his positioning and decision is poor but watch carefully, where is the defensive cover for him? I'm not siding Moreno, no reason to. We don't have any quality cover from a DM. Hendo, no where to be seen, Wijnaldum, Lallana and Fiminho jogging back somewhere further up the pitch. We don't have a pure DM in the first place, to start with. Why are we continuing to procrastinate? We can have a world class left back to replace Moreno but this LB can only take that much if there's no defensive cover for him when anything and everything runs at him, he'll succumb to pressure eventually.
3 of the 4 goals are down to individual briallince and little to suggest that Wijnaldum and Firminho played a big part in these goals, and it is very worrying. We don't need passengers but players that contribute to the game. We can't expect Cou and Mane to get us out of jail everytime. Ok, Lallana is poor as well but he does on occassions scores us that odd goal here and there, but where is Hendo and Firminho?? They need to start contributing to the goals. Klopp needs to use his sledgehammer and we don't need lazy buggers in our team. Yesterday's team is a little imbalance too much fire power in the likes of Mane, Cou, Fir and Lallana and too little cover for the defense.
If we had a Hamann yesterday, who acts like a windscreen viper covering the LB and RB we would most probably have avoided at least 1 goal conceded. Watching the game over 95 minutes, Wijnaldum and Firminho is piss poor. Honestly speaking, I can't see what are their real contributions in the game except for some back and side passes. We need a Clynne to run almost 1/2 the length of the pitch to supply Cou the cross to score suggests that we have an underperformed midfiled.
I'm sorry to say that Firminho is not what we are looking for in a Liverpool player, he jogs around strings a few passes together and that's about it. Some said he needed time, well it has been something like 30 over games and he still looks the same player, no improvement, no real commitment from him and of course, he will be world class in 1 in every 5 games and gone missing in 4 the next games and Wijnaldum is heading the same direction. Huely dissapointed with Wijnaldum so far. Wijnaldum and Mane is gulf apart. We need contributors in the game not passengers. Firminho and Wijnaldum in the same team only spells disaster.
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