The short answer Billy Yes...
It's impossible that any club in England and posibly the whole of Europe can survive without a player of VVD standards. Absolute world class and arguable the best player in the world for his postion. How can any team think their CB worries are behind them with the ability he shows on the pitch.
You'll leak in more goals that's for sure, it's basically just a question of how well/bad Liverpool adapt to it.
Your right Keith, Virgil is the best in the world in that position, and of course his very own standards will be very difficult if not impossible to replicate, however, we are talking about surviving the period of time he is missing and although that will be difficult enough it is by no means out of our depth,
We seen how Fabinho adapted in his stead and unfortunately suffered his hammy, all doom a fookin gloom then, but then young Rhys burst onto the scene and played admirably for someone with little experience, similarly with Nat Phillips he apparently was surplus hence his non inclusion in the CL squad, but again he didn’t look out of place,
For me the key word is experience or lack thereof, now we all know that both of those lads are short of the experience required but how do you get that experience?
It would be folly if anybody thought that we would be error free with that lack of experience but before Virgil was assaulted mistakes were rife in and around our back 5 anyway, it is a massive blow losing the big fella, there is no getting away from that, but ready made replacement’s as we have mentioned simply aren’t available, so you make do with what you have, and what we have are two young hungry determined individuals who will give their all for Jürgen , their peers and themselves , and you can’t ask for anymore than that, the experience will come with time,
I think we will surprise those who think our season is done already, but who sits atop of the pile right now, yet , we’re yet to hit top gear, last two campaigns we have taken the one game at a time mantra, we will do so again this season, and as each game passes we get closer to having the big fella back, after the international break we’ll have Thiago back, Keita back, Matip back, Jota has settled quickly and will thrive in the coming months, you would be very silly to write us off, do so at your peril !
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