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      Re: Malfunctioning Midfield
      Reply #299: Oct 23, 2022 11:53:53 am
      Wait a minute, did we play with only once DM yesterday?

      I could have sworn in the games we won its been a pairing, but yesterday it was Fab by himself with Jones further up field or was he attempting to be his partner? Because if he was he did an absolute terrible job at it.

      When we have performed best we have had two pulling the strings deep in midfield, right? Or am I missing something.

      There was just the one DM and Jones a bit higher
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      Reply #300: Oct 23, 2022 11:56:22 am
      There was just the one DM and Jones a bit higher

      Ok, in that case we need to at least go with a pair surely as against Rangers, City and West Ham we played with a pair and saw a real difference in how our midfield played.
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      Reply #301: Oct 23, 2022 12:02:21 pm
      Ok, in that case we need to at least go with a pair surely as against Rangers, City and West Ham we played with a pair and saw a real difference in how our midfield played.

      Been saying it all season and will keep doing so

      This squad of players is not a 4 3 3 squad anymore. Double pivot 4 2 3 1 is what suits most of the players here now
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      Reply #302: Oct 23, 2022 12:03:39 pm
      Been saying it all season and will keep doing so

      This squad of players is not a 4 3 3 squad anymore. Double pivot 4 2 3 1 is what suits most of the players here now

      Fab just isn't mobile enough and Hendo isn't mobile enough if playing higher up the pitch to cover the right. We also do not have Gini who would have been higher up but able to cover more space also.

      Think you are bang on.
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      Reply #303: Oct 23, 2022 12:26:03 pm
      Ok, in that case we need to at least go with a pair surely as against Rangers, City and West Ham we played with a pair and saw a real difference in how our midfield played.

      If we aren’t using the 4-3-3 then we definitely need two sitting


      Fabinho would be ok if he was on form but when struggling he was like a fish out of water yesterday- he needed help
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      Reply #304: Oct 23, 2022 01:08:40 pm
      It’s the area they will look at

      Maybe a younger player in during Jan , then a big player in during the summer and another the summer after


      Naby i can see getting a new contract

      Running his contract down isn't he? I think he's off end of the season. Get him off the wage bill and offer his wage to someone who'll have an effect.

      Sad disappointment that hasn't even offered glimpses of what he was supposed to be.
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      Reply #305: Oct 23, 2022 01:14:02 pm
      might be worth putting him in against Leeds as well but also Naby is coming back amazingly which could help

      Honestly thought that at Old Trafford, I'm past caring about Naby now. If he's fit great, but not expecting much. Has had loads of opportunities to push on and never seems to take it or gets injured/pulls a sickie.
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      Reply #306: Oct 23, 2022 01:16:16 pm
      Running his contract down isn't he? I think he's off end of the season. Get him off the wage bill and offer his wage to someone who'll have an effect.

      Sad disappointment that hasn't even offered glimpses of what he was supposed to be.

      Not sure - but he will leave as a disappointment as there is a player there
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      Reply #307: Oct 23, 2022 01:18:38 pm
      I quoted my own post so as not to appear to be highlighting others who now think so differently. 6 months later and including the summer break our squad has disintegrated into chaos and is very fragile now.  Losing the league again by another point and just not turning up at the CL whilst just about winning the two domestic cups maybe has taken its toll on confidence being so close to a perfect season.
      If we turn up against Ajax with the midfield functioning properly, we have a chance but they will rip us apart if we start with the same midfield as yesterday

      Not forgetting we did to you what you thought you were going to do to us.  :P
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      Reply #308: Oct 23, 2022 01:20:29 pm
      Not forgetting we did to you what you thought you were going to do to us.  :P

      No you won, nohting emphatic like the 5-0. Just your manager got your players to turn up for your cup final!!
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      Reply #309: Oct 23, 2022 01:27:11 pm
      No you won, nohting emphatic like the 5-0. Just your manager got your players to turn up for your cup final!!

      Didn’t think you’d bite but I’ll take it.  :lmao:
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      Reply #310: Oct 23, 2022 01:32:58 pm
      Didn’t think you’d bite but I’ll take it.  :lmao:

      Sad f**ker, but you are a utd fan at heart, so expect nothing less.

      Remember the time your fans sung about Boris Johnson just because of the self pity thing way back in 2006. I wonder how all of Boris' decisions of the last few years are having an effect in Manchester now?

      TORY, TORY MAN UTD
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      Reply #311: Oct 23, 2022 01:53:43 pm
      Sad f**ker, but you are a utd fan at heart, so expect nothing less.

      Remember the time your fans sung about Boris Johnson just because of the self pity thing way back in 2006. I wonder how all of Boris' decisions of the last few years are having an effect in Manchester now?

      TORY, TORY MAN UTD

      Don’t you mean GLORY GLORY MAN UNITED.  :P

      I’m working class, fcuk Boris and fcuk the tories
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      Reply #312: Oct 23, 2022 02:38:02 pm
      Part of the problem is our midfielders never score goals. Or even take shots from outside the box. Just why? The huge majority of the good teams have players who are willing to shoot outside the box.

      One of my dream signings would be Valverde he has scored 7 goals this season from a mixture of central midfield and right wing.
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      Reply #313: Oct 23, 2022 02:40:13 pm
      Not forgetting we did to you what you thought you were going to do to us.  :P

      no idea what you are on about memory has been erased. No I dont want you to remind me.
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      Reply #314: Oct 23, 2022 02:42:26 pm
      Part of the problem is our midfielders never score goals. Or even take shots from outside the box. Just why? The huge majority of the good teams have players who are willing to shoot outside the box.

      One of my dream signings would be Valverde he has scored 7 goals this season from a mixture of central midfield and right wing.

      this has been a huge problem and now highlighted as Mo's incredible stats now look more like normal after being world class.
      We dont have really aggressive creative midfielders in this system do we.
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      Reply #315: Oct 23, 2022 02:53:39 pm
      Tyler Morton looks like he is having a strong season so far
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      Reply #316: Oct 23, 2022 03:40:47 pm
      It’s definitely where our problems lie, if there not injured there out of form, the is not the passing of last season not the running nor passion, we need new and proven midfielders and soon
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      Reply #317: Oct 23, 2022 05:24:46 pm
      Case, McDermott, Souness, Molby and a fair few since, scored plenty from midfield. This current squad all need to take a few speculative shots from outside the box.
      As I said yesterday, against a defensive wall like that, the fancy flicks eye of a needle stuff isn't gonna work.
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      Reply #318: Oct 23, 2022 05:43:14 pm
      Don’t think the lack of goals is an issue, their job has never been about control

      If we focus on our prime years, the midfield has a few specific roles which they did to great effect

      Providing cover for full backs to allow them to progress further up the pitch, also provide that double cover if one of the wide players was too far away, eg if the lcm covered lb, the other two tucked in

      They also provided the press to back up our front players when they pressed to narrow the game and squeeze it to allow us to win the ball

      More importantly they helped us control games and dominate it

      All of that has reduced to an average level, so much so our formation had to be changed and as soon as we went back to an older style formation of one dm etc we struggled badly and lost to a championship team. Our second 11 should be beating a championship team, let’s be honest, we wee Liverpool, we should put our foot down and yea this sounds arrogant and cocky but that’s what I’m used to seeing

      Part of our issues is, Henderson and fab are clearly playing with injuries and can only get through one game per week, as they are having to play more, the press, cover. And ball retention is non existent. It’s like a dynamo effect. We show glimpses of it and our retention bit eventually die out and get overrun

      I know this sounds strange but the people to blame lies firmly with our transfer committee or process we have and that includes our boss

      Has klopp ever re built a team after a cycle ended? He did not see this coming it’s clear because if he did, we would have brought in a couple of cm and got rid of couple of crocks too reignite our midfield, I think he will do it in the summer for sure or maybe even try in January where possible

      The committee and our system of how we run the club works well when we are proactive

      Let’s take a look when klopp and our system were reactive. The cb situation a couple years back, and look how it cost us

      The cm situation, klopp said he was happy and then realised what was coming and said he got it wrong, that is the problem, we need a new midfield, a couple of quality players to re fuel the engine and also give us more control

      This is a massive learning season for fsg and klopp and I hope they don’t just blame bad luck, they must realise they were not on the buzzer to rebuild our cycle

      Sadly it may cost us top 4 but I do believe if we can get in a quality cm with legs and good ability, it can save our season and we can get even 3rd, I truly believe that

      Then at the end of the season and people may call me a c**t for treating our players like assets but hey, they are millionaires, they can survive with being sold to a lower club and they will be fine

      Ox pay him to leave
      Keita, pay him to leave
      Jones loaned out
      Milner coach

      Next season
      Hendo, Thiago, Elliott, fab plus 2 new cm (one in jan and one on summer) and also hopefully a younger to make up 7
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      Reply #319: Oct 23, 2022 06:09:02 pm
      Don’t think the lack of goals is an issue, their job has never been about control

      If we focus on our prime years, the midfield has a few specific roles which they did to great effect

      Providing cover for full backs to allow them to progress further up the pitch, also provide that double cover if one of the wide players was too far away, eg if the lcm covered lb, the other two tucked in

      They also provided the press to back up our front players when they pressed to narrow the game and squeeze it to allow us to win the ball

      More importantly they helped us control games and dominate it

      All of that has reduced to an average level, so much so our formation had to be changed and as soon as we went back to an older style formation of one dm etc we struggled badly and lost to a championship team. Our second 11 should be beating a championship team, let’s be honest, we wee Liverpool, we should put our foot down and yea this sounds arrogant and cocky but that’s what I’m used to seeing

      Part of our issues is, Henderson and fab are clearly playing with injuries and can only get through one game per week, as they are having to play more, the press, cover. And ball retention is non existent. It’s like a dynamo effect. We show glimpses of it and our retention bit eventually die out and get overrun

      I know this sounds strange but the people to blame lies firmly with our transfer committee or process we have and that includes our boss

      Has klopp ever re built a team after a cycle ended? He did not see this coming it’s clear because if he did, we would have brought in a couple of cm and got rid of couple of crocks too reignite our midfield, I think he will do it in the summer for sure or maybe even try in January where possible

      The committee and our system of how we run the club works well when we are proactive

      Let’s take a look when klopp and our system were reactive. The cb situation a couple years back, and look how it cost us

      The cm situation, klopp said he was happy and then realised what was coming and said he got it wrong, that is the problem, we need a new midfield, a couple of quality players to re fuel the engine and also give us more control

      This is a massive learning season for fsg and klopp and I hope they don’t just blame bad luck, they must realise they were not on the buzzer to rebuild our cycle

      Sadly it may cost us top 4 but I do believe if we can get in a quality cm with legs and good ability, it can save our season and we can get even 3rd, I truly believe that

      Then at the end of the season and people may call me a c**t for treating our players like assets but hey, they are millionaires, they can survive with being sold to a lower club and they will be fine

      Ox pay him to leave
      Keita, pay him to leave
      Jones loaned out
      Milner coach

      Next season
      Hendo, Thiago, Elliott, fab plus 2 new cm (one in jan and one on summer) and also hopefully a younger to make up 7

      Nice thought but it isn't going to happen. FSG have yet to show they splash out big. We'll be lucky to pull in 25 million combined for Keita, Ox and Curtis.

      Regarding Keita and Ox, who is going to come in and take these 2 off our hands given their horrendous injury records?

      Never mind, just checked and both Keita and Ox are free at end of Season so at least we save money on wages. Will be glad to see the back of them to be honest, both have been big disappointments,

      One thing i will say, this midfield is an absolute mess. FSG and Klopp took their eye off the ball on this one.
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      Re: Malfunctioning Midfield
      Reply #320: Oct 23, 2022 06:14:22 pm
      Keita and Ox both run out of contract at tbe end of the season so unless they sign a new one will be leaving

      It’s also worth noting that you don’t need to splash out big to bring quality in


      The recent purchases of Jota , Konate and Diaz show that - all under £50mil and all far cheaper than other players who moved around at the same time


      That’s where our transfer team come into their own by finding those gems that aren’t overpriced - and I have no doubt there will be players they have highlighted

      In Jan or over the World Cup I think we will see one arriving under the radar and then in the summer another will arrive.


      It’s a tough one for the midfield because Klopp likes them to play a certain way.
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      Reply #321: Oct 23, 2022 06:21:00 pm
      bought for £220mil currently worth close to £4billion  when will people wake up

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