I think Keita will start against Chelsea.
If Ox starts ahead of Naby again either Klopp has little to no faith in Keita or he's starting to lose the plot.
I suspect Klopp gets a little bit frustrated with Keita's defensive work, he often fails to track runners and when he does it's a little half-hearted. Everyone must realise that the vast majority of our creativity comes from the 3 front players and the 2 full-backs. The three lads in the middle are required to press, hold that shape just midway through the attacking 3rd when we're pushing forward, win the ball back when we lose or it's cleared and then quickly recycle the ball to the 5 lads I've mentioned.
Often their work goes unnoticed when we're winning and scoring freely and yet if the goals dry up people often look to them as the reason why. It baffles me that posters don't realise this. Keita imo still needs to gain the full trust of the manager if he wants to be a regular in our midfield three, he's a skillful little player but he also needs to roll his sleeves up and mark, track and tackle like the rest of our midfield. He still falls short in this respect.
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