Haven’t posted for months. Thought I’d say my piece as last nights result appears to be the end of our season now.
I always start with the line up. The only change I’d have made would have been endo for Jones. Endo has been poor in the last couple of games but it would have freed Macallister and allowed him to get further forward. Jones isn’t good enough for this team either. If he wasn’t scouse, he wouldn’t be playing for us that’s just the brutal truth of it. He’s genuinely championship level and was completely out of his depth again last night.
But anyway, a few minutes in I could tell we just weren’t up for it the way Everton were. Few of our lads backing out of tackles, a real lack of energy in the side, no real pressing, no urgency in the passing. It was far too casual for a derby game. There was a real lack of leadership I thought. Nobody wanted to grab the game by the scruff.
There were so many players who stunk the place out last night, my god. Robertson is extremely fortunate to still have a place in our starting 11 because he’s been awful for ages now. He’s just lucky that Tsimikas isn’t up to it. Gomez is very unlucky to have lost his place because he’s had a very good season at left back and I think we’ve missed him in the past month or so.
I’ve said it endless times but I don’t rate Konate the same way the majority of reds do. I think he’s somewhere between an average and good centre back. I think he’s far from world class or he’s this monster that some reds want you to believe. Matip is a much better cb. I’ve got no doubt whatsoever had matip been fit this season we would have conceded a lot less goals and we would have more points on the board. But konate was terrible last night, really really poor. Virgil wasn’t much better to be honest.
Jones was the worst player on the pitch for me and sboz was a close second. I’m a huge fan of sboz but I’m struggling to defend him these days, he’s also been terrible for a while now.
Salah and Nunez were both shocking and even though I’m not his biggest fan either, I’ll give credit to Diaz because atleast he had a go. The quality was still lacking but I can’t fault his effort.
But with that all said, and it might appear I’m really throwing the boot in, I’m so thankful for everything klopp has done for our club and for me personally, giving me some of the best memories of my life. This era was truly special and it’s just sad it’s come to an end, especially in this manner, but bizarrely if we were told at the start of the season we would finish top 4 and win a cup I think the vast majority of us would have taken it.
We fell at the last hurdle but it was another good effort by the lads. We lost a few senior players in the summer and completely changed our midfield. To get this far, they’ve done well and they deserve credit. Emotions are just high at the moment because again, we came close and we’ve just lost to those knobheads over the road.
I do worry for when klopp goes though. I just can’t see anybody else in the world getting more out of this group than he did or could. It’s a huge job for slot or whoever comes in.
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