Minds, tactics, confidence levels, personnel, positions! Change them all. Oh and Emre for Gigi. Please...
Neil Atkinson of The Anfield Wrap says the lads need a good all-out bust up, stop the coach and have a ding-dong to clear the air! I like his style, but this is 2017 not 1974, and although I remember the old days a little too well, even I know that internal fisticuffs isn't the Liverpool Way. Not any more.
I think there's an entrenched mindset that's set in. Come matchday, against a team like Hull or (let's face it) everyone outside Bournemouth, the Blueshite and the top 6, the lads seem to look at each other, say, "Oh bugger, it's happening again, lads!" and fall into safe routines and habits like actors with a tired old script. They don't even looked surprised anymore when a HCFC or a SCFC score aginst us.
There are some excellent ideas on this forum about how the team could try different tactics or formations to defeat a deep, well-set defence. The key word is "TRY." Yet what DO we try? The same old ineffective, slow, naive gameplan. To me-to you; repeat ad nauseum. The same players in the same old positions. That old phrase about the definition of madness comes to mind. That about repeating the same old routines yet expecting a different outcome.
I find it hard to remember a team that's lost confidence and lost its way so completely, after such a superb first half of a season. Maybe Newcastle in the 90's, when Keegan's Mavericks suddenly looked in the rear-view mirror to see Ferguson's bas**rds coming up behind them and Special K choked? I worry for Klopp, I really do. He doesn't look the same man who washed the teacups for the cameras at Exeter last season, or kissed the topless and jubilant Lallana at Carrow Road. He looks tired, lost and frustrated. If he needs a bit of help he could do worse than to read what some of us say on LFCReds, and try something, ANYthing different. Put Manninger (or Lucas) in goal? Milner in midfield (yeah, I know, a bit left-field that one)? Bring back Moreno? Stick Can in at CB? Play Daniel Sturridge for more than ten minutes? Give Woodburn a run of games?
Do you know what? Any of those (except maybe the Lucas one!) would give me a frisson of positive excitement for just long enough to start believing again (and before I get killed, I think I DO still believe, in spite of everything) that we still have the best manager in the world for LFC. Anything but Can in midfield again, beaten on the break again, Firmino up top again, to me-to you across the 18 yard box and back, again. And again. And again.
So in answer to the OP, my answer is SOMETHING. Change something. For the love of LFC, PLEASE!
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