Another sh*te performance. Another game where Alison is man of the match.
I thought after the city performance that maybe our form this season was just a blip but after today I can’t help but think that this team is rapidly in decline.
The lineup gave me no confidence. Jones, Elliott and carvalho shouldn’t be in the same line up unless it’s a league cup game. For a team that’s supposedly challenging on all fronts that line up today (along with the bench) is pretty embarrassing to be honest.
Game went pretty much as I expected. We saw a lot of the ball, had a few half chances, most of which fell to our centre half, but for 90 minutes we huffed and puffed and then piss poor defending cost us yet again. It’s like Groundhog Day.
Going back 12 months, probably longer, I remember saying on here Curtis Jones wasn’t good enough for this club. I don’t care if it was his first start in a while, he was sh*te and how he got a full game I’ll never know. He is a championship player. Maybe a bottom half prem player at best but that’s being very kind to him. We need players in this squad who are genuinely and realistically going to fight for shirts and Jones is nowhere near that level. I know it’s unfair comparing him to Thiago but the drop off in levels is far too great. It’s F***ing massive.
Jürgen got a few things wrong today and he didn’t manage the game well at all. When Milner was brought off, he should have hooked Jones and put Milner in the middle. Trent should have come on at half time when it was blatantly obvious we were struggling to break them down or create anything. We needed width.
Which brings me to salah. We’ve seen the effects of playing salah down the middle recently so I’ve no problem with him starting there today, but as the game went on it was clear forest were packing bodies in the centre and salah wasn’t involved at all. The space was out wide so he should have put salah as wide as possible so he could get space and time on the ball to run at neco Williams. Instead, he just left salah struggling for the whole game. He’s our best player, we have to find a way to get him involved.
I don’t get the hype surrounding carvalho either. Again I don’t care if he’s 9, 19 or 49. If he’s in the team then I’ll judge him as a Liverpool fc player. He’s a tidy player and has good feet but I’m still yet to see him put in a real performance for us. He’s just making the numbers up in my opinion.
Never thought I’d say this a few weeks ago but we missed big Darwin today. As clumsy as he is he still makes things happen and pits himself about.
Really sh*te performance that today. Starting to wonder whether a few of them have lost their hunger. It was a half arsed performance. Apart from Alison, I can’t really recall one player who came away with any credit. Don’t recall one player who gave it absolutely everything and can hold their head up high. Piss poor that reds.
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