Got it wrong last night.
Not so much the team selection,
but from the point at which Keita went off the selections were negative.
Sturridge should have had 20 minutes on there to give Napoli something to worry about,
and Salah should have been taken off.
Points...
I do not think that Klopp got the selection wrong as such. I think that last night so many of our players were under par and it may have baffled Klopp as sure as it did us...
Keita was giving the ball away left,right and centre before his injury, and this was occurring thought out the team... The front three was staved of any real service, and the service that they did receive lacked any real quality..
I would have liked to have seen something a bit different in that I would have liked to seen Shaqiri bought on at the start of the second half for Gini or Milner; both of whom were having little impact on the game, and either giving Shaqiri a free role behind the front three, or playing him as the centre of the three strikers with Firmino playing just behind the front three. We All know that given the time to pick a pass that he is very close to Coutinho in that respect
I believe that the problem we are having with our strikers is that Mo Salah's lack of form is in many ways linked to Firmino's lack of form...Firmino is very much the force which drives Mane and Salah. Firmino is very much the creative one of the front three, the one who makes those little flicks,passes and runs to take out defenders. This is not the same player that when to the World Cup...
I think that taking off Salah just leads to him being more frustrated than he already is, which leads to him making bad decisions on the field... We need to keep all three on the field but help them get better service, which in time will boost thier confidence and start the goals coming again, and for me it is playing Shaqiri...
We cannot rely on Daniel Sturrigde coming off the bench every match to rescue us
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