As other posters have rightfully highlighted, we are scoring near enough the same and have more points than this time last season, so are we really set up to lose?
What I think is that Klopp and his team decided this season we HAD to stop leaking goals and to do this we need to be more compact and less adventurous when going forward. Rather than go full throttle at every chance of attack, pick one choose the right attack the one which if it doesn't work doesn't leave the team vulnerable on the counter.
This new philosophy IMO has led our front three to get less chances going forward which puts a lot of emphasis on how clinical they have to be, which wasnt the case last season. We looked very clinical last season but the truth of the matter was that we made so many chances it didn't matter if we missed 2 or 3 but this season we cant afford to miss them.
Like others have stated it has done us well so far this slight change in tactics as we have led the table for the majority of the season so why change it, what I would like to see is when we need a win and it's not working e.g 0-0 20 minutes to go Klopp to make an active change in tactics and player substitutions to go full throttle and get the win, rather than be conservative.
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