Agreed. I think Jota scored 7 in 10 before this game and for somebody who has mostly been an impact player coming on for the last 20 mins of games that’s very impressive.
Bobby is in dire form and has been for a while. I don’t know what’s happened to him. His goal scoring was never a big concern for me because of how good he is off the ball and how he brings the best out of both salah and mane but he is offering us zilch right now and it’s like playing with ten men.
I thought it was a strange choice by klopp after Jotas performance midweek to take him out of the forward role and persist with bobby. He’s just scored a hat trick, keep him in that position where he’s flying and confidence is sky high.
I’m not a fan of bobby in the midfield but out the two of them I’d have had bobby the more deeper role, but surely we would have been more balanced if Keita or Milner started and Jota was upfront.
Strange one.
I thought that when I seen the starting X1 with Bobby & Jota in, that Bobby would be the one dropping back, with Salah & Mane in their usual positions and Jota thru the middle, I think Jürgen missed a trick there but I’m here sat at home and not in the gaffers chair at Anfield, to field such a attack and then not attack as you won’t expect was a bit strange if I’m honest, I think it would have worked better had Thiago played tho,
How often do you see Bobby drop back to find the ball when we are in full flow, quite a lot if you watch him closely, it’s why Klopp has him in there, that and his link up play, he’s the glue that binds us together but at the moment isn’t quite as sticky,
That first half hour I was drooling and thought once we got that first a second would follow soon after but it obviously didn’t, and the longer that went on the more accustomed Citeh got to our system and eventually matched us, that first half was a great watch, if only we had scored a second before they equalised I think we would have won it.
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