Agree with most of this, especially the indictment of Origi. He really just wasn't mobile enough and he doesn't even anticipate as well as Studge does. With his toolset, Origi should basically be bullying the opposition ala Lukaku (as long as he isn't against Lovren ).
I'm not Origi's biggest fan. Do I think he'll become world class, no. Do I think he'll become our #1 striker, no.
He has many shortcomings, and the lack of bottle he showed from Matip's header when he saw the white's of the goal post, summed him up.
That said, and this is the sadder indictment, he has shown more end product in the last what, 130 minutes of football than Roberto Firmino has done in ~810 minutes of football. We need goals, hook or by crook and had Origi not scored last night we could have easily lost that 2-1. As the probability of Firmino coming up trumps is very low. No matter how 'easy' his goal was, Origi had to be in that position to score and you can bet your bottom dollar that if he wouldn't have been on the pitch Gini would have been blindly crossing that ball to nobody.
So, while Origi isn't
the answer, I'd sooner give him the run in that position than our blank firing Brazillian - and that clearly isn't saying a lot about the latter. It's a bit rich, considering he has hardly played, to come in for his first full 90 and achieve more than what Bobby has achieved since his brace against Swansea back in f**k knows when. Mind you, he has just overtaken Bobby in the goal scoring charts, another statistic damning the player who's played #9 more than anyone else this season.
Origi, wasn't our issue last night, and that suggestion is utter tripe. Our issue last night was that Klopp had nobody to call upon from the bench. He opted to go pragmatic because he obviously felt he couldn't rely on Sturridge, and it didn't work. That was our issue.
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