Neville Kneville
Well-Known Member
Yeah the dippers looked well off the pace from 65m or so onwards. They've had a full pre season as well, a longer one than we had. Klopp's teams have burned out before (with deeper squads and more rotation), wouldn't surprise me after 4 seasons if a lot of them were running on adrenaline towards the back end of last season and are fucked this season. Would love to see them get a few bad results early to see how they cope.
He keeps going to the same players over & over, even bringing on Firminho last night, to bail them out.
As has been pointed out, it helps in the fact that his midfielders are effectively defenders, but it's remarkable that he's got to finals & 2nd in the league by running 3 forwards into the ground.
Usually, for most teams, that would cause them to break down & the ones who survive probably be patched up weekly, as with Aguero when Pellegrini crucified him. Perhaps soon, it will catch up with them & their luck will run out.
If it does, they won't even get top 4.