Liverpool thread 2020/21

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jrb said:
There's not a single Liverpool fan on Talk Shite who is from Liverpool. All from down South.
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And these Southern clowns don’t turn up to Anfield when the going gets tough...

19th April 2010 v West Ham 37,697
1st January 2011 v Bolton 35,400

Although, that West Ham game was down to the Ash Cloud grounding all flights so it will have been their Irish and Norwegian fans that didn’t turn up to that one. The Bolton one was because they were fed up of Hodgson.

But it all just shows, that all the top clubs have around the same amount of core fans they can all rely on.

City’s average attendance in that shit season under Pearce was 39,000. For those early round Cup games over the last decade, United get about 42,000.
 
Their front 3 are burnt out and the press has gone completely. Obviously injuries have not helped, but Klopp has a big job to get them firing again.
 
The problem right now for Liverpool is that teams aren't playing against them in extremes anymore.

If a team sits back against Liverpool and concedes possession for long periods of time, then this benefits Liverpool because then eventually when attacking that deep block with the players they have they can get a goal, and since the ball is so far away from their net, they can control counter attacks well.

If a team presses high, then Liverpool can exploit spaces behind and counter with their wingers to score goals.

But if a team is somewhere in the middle of this as Chelsea did, where they balance pressing and sitting deep (which City have now adopted as well), then Liverpool can't develop any consistent rhythm, they aren't given enough time to beat the block because the opposition will try to go forwards, but they also don't get many chances to counter as well, they get half the moments in each phase, no rhythm to develop.

This will be a consistent problem for Liverpool if other teams learn this faster than Klopp does, Pep and Tuchel are tactically ahead of every other manager on this front.
 
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