He will get a free pass Klopp for what he has done in previous years at Liverpool. However questions need to be asked about what’s going on at Liverpool and I don’t see any pundits calling it out. They’ve spent on attacking players in the summer and also the winter transfer window, they have Jota who yes is coming back from injury but hasn’t scored a goal in nearly 12 months. They gave the wrong player a new contract in Salah and let Mane go.Nunez who they outlaid big money on isn’t even trusted to start and is seen as some type of impact player.
Their midfield is awful, as soon as I saw their three in the middle of the park I was confident City would win. They’ve lost that ability to work hard without the ball and peg teams in their final third. The confidence of players who have done so well for them in the last five years such as Alexander-Arnold and Van Dyjk has evaporated away.
All in all this comes down to the manager, why did he naively go to City playing so open when they’ve only won three games away from home all season? Why has he stockpiled all those players who can play across the front three when there is nothing behind them to make them difficult to beat?
There seems to be an acceptance of this defeat by their fans and media lackeys by pointing at Rodri being sent off. The ref was letting the physical stuff go, Fabinho could have easily walked for some of the challenges he was putting in, how many times in the past have their players got away with it most notably Milner and Fabinho in the games we played them last season?
What’s the plan at Liverpool? Are they going back to what they were since the Premier league was created, a team that occasionally gets up for the big games but never competes for the big trophies?
