NEIL AKTINSON, Paul Cope and Sean Rogers are in the studio for a challenging post Crystal Palace Tuesday Review.
Did Liverpool do much wrong?
Is Jürgen Klopp expecting too much of his side after a long trip to Kazan and can the squad spread thinly enough to remain competitive on four fronts?
Or was it simple a case of individual mistakes and a results colouring a fairly competent performance?
All this and more on this week’s ‘Tuesday Review’.
By Occam’s Razor, it was a simple a case of individual mistakes and an unfortunate result coloring a fairly competent performance.
The deployment of Lallana as a “second-striker” of sorts was a mistake. He just doesn’t have it in him. He has zero, nil ‘center-forward’ instincts.
More generally, Lallana is just a waste of time inside the 18-yard box. Invariably, he receives the ball in good positions inside the box and Cruyf-turns his way out of it.
His ‘pass’ for Coutinho was fortuitous. He was nudging it supposedly for Benteke (actually deflecting it out of his reach) and it fortuitously ended up perfectly in the path of Coutinho.
Great show, as usual.
If he’s reading, could Sean perhaps explain the logic behind the decision to fly back to Liverpool on Thursday night / Friday morning (landing at John Lennon at 3am, I believe) rather than kipping the night in Russia and flying back mid-morning? I appreciate this is the way most teams do it and presumably LFC have looked into the science behind all this, but it would be interesting to get a coach’s perspective.
Thanks.