What do these players have in common :-
Lucas
Can
Lallana
Firminho
Coutinho
They're in the engine room. I personally believe this is where the real problem is, they're very technical players but weak and slow. When come up against strong, fast and physical players, all of them will struggle and has struggled as what I have seen in the last few matches. BR and the committee when they bought these players maybe thinking of a foreign league because non of them were professional footballers before. When teams don't press us, these players are world beaters, when they do press us we're a bunch of losers. Therefore, we have far too many lightweighs in our squad and that may explain why our performance varies from opponent to opponent. Klopp could put up the best formation, and i don't find much to complain before the game started today, however, when our players do not have the physical attributes combine with the skills we will somewhat neutralised in many ways and we have seen that in the last few matches.
We could get another 10 firminhos or 10 Coutinhos in and we will still loose matches, that's how I sees. . The team is somewhat imbalance at the moment, a case of too much skills with too little brawn. So, I won't put the total blame on Klopp for the losses, the players are what they are. Starting from today, if I am Klopp I will be honest in many ways and start telling these players 1 to 1, buddy you are too lightweight for me and the league and there is a high chance that you will need to move, unless the players can start to play super fast football that makes it difficult for opponents to mark them.
As someone has mentioned earlier about Jimmy case, one of my favorite player a very very physical player but not a very skilful one and if we have him on the squad today I'd believe we would perform much much better.
Our past masters ala Shanks, Paisley etc knew long ago steel is needed in the middle of the park in those all conquering years and we have none today.
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