Awful performance, awful result. Didn’t see it coming at all, especially after our two impressive results recently against spurs and West Ham. I thought our blip was over and we would put a run together and push for the title but I’ve accepted thats over for us now and I feel a bit silly saying it was still on only a week or two ago. The boys really let us down tonight. It was just a shocking performance.
It’s gotten to the point now where I don’t think we can blame any player(s) for this poor form of ours. The responsibility lies with klopp. We’ve had several of these games where the opposition sit in and we dominate possession but we create next to nothing. Did we even manage a shot on target tonight? At home to Brighton? Come on. That’s piss poor that.
It’s so frustrating to watch. I know it’s difficult to play against ten man defences but theres just no urgency about us at all. It’s too slow. It’s predictable. Easy to defend against. And we have no plan B either when it was clear from ten minutes in that we would struggle. We play the same way and with the same system so is it any wonder we get the same outcome? That game tonight was more or less identical to the Burnley one.
Klopps got to change and mix it up. Try something new. Move salah into a more central position. Or tell him to hog the touch line and then drive into the box when he receives the ball and look for a penalty perhaps. Take a man out of the midfield three and play an attacking four instead. Just do something. Anything. Because plan A isn’t working.
Ive seen a few posts criticising a couple of players tonight, in particular origi and ox. Very harsh in my opinion. Very difficult to make an impact in that game with those tactics. Both only had about 20-25 minutes to do so and they’ve been blasted by reds because they couldn’t win the game for us basically, when the whole team was absolutely sh*te.
I’ve also seen people talk about Thiago and I’ve brought this up a couple of times on the forum recently. I don’t think he had a good game tonight to be honest but i still think he’s been very good for us in general and that our low win percentage whenever he starts is just a weird, freakish co-incidence. Not basing this on tonight, but at times he just looks head and shoulders above every other player on the pitch to me.
Motm was kelleher. Could have been embarrassing if it wasn’t for him. Couldn’t do anything for the goal and he made 2 or 3 good stops.
Awful night for us. Really gutted.
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