Hello darkness my old friend.
Liverpool were dire at Leicester and the panel on The Anfield Wrap aren’t holding back. Joel Richards, Melissa Reddy and John Gibbons were all at the King Power Stadium and saw how awful The Reds really were.
How bad was that? Every aspect let the side down. But how and why? What should happen next?
It’s a big inquest into a terrible night for Liverpool, hosted by Neil Atkinson. It’s an essential if unpleasant listen.
Direct: The Anfield wrap – Out Foxed, Out Thought, Out Fought
The really sad thing is it doesn’t matter if we beat Arsenal, because we cannot turn it on when we face the smaller clubs. I love LFC, but we are an embarrassment at the minute.
Speaking objectively, It seems that some members of the playing squad have a mentality issue when it comes to playing certain games…
When you have to be ‘on it’ for 90+ minutes it seems that there there are not strong enough characters who can supplement the flair and attacking prowess that we undoubtedly hold.
This was a game where we needed to win the 1st challenge and needed to win all the 50/50’s… we needed a Jordan Henderson to get stuck in and lead by example. We simply don’t have enough of them.
I remember back when in King Kenny’s return as LFC manager we were up against Man Utd at OT. Raul Mirelles pulled out of a 50/50 and Gerrard had to go in hard to show by example that Raul’s attitude was not what Liverpool are about.
In my experience Liverpool are all about the first 20min… set the tone, set the pace and show aggression… “That ball is ours… you can’t have it”… Unfortunately Klopp’s Liverpool right now don’t have that in them.
So much is made of ‘mentality’, but surely what you need is a decent back four? The amount of times sides just waltz through our defence, or score simple headers it is hardly a surprise that it is difficult for the front four to pull us through. It is just ridiculous that we have not had a good defence since 2011/12, that is totally on Brendan and Klopp.
Meant’ to say…….Well Done Everyone associated with TAW, including all the commenters/ subscribers. Just from a personal point of view I live down south (Suffolk), and do not have the funds to watch the Reds live very often but, it still absolutely kills me, and affects my whole outlook (far too much) when things go badly. It absolutely helps to have a great bunch of lads (and lasses) to listen to and read on here. At least we always have the Very Best Supporters Bar None. Really hope this season doesn’t fizzle out.
10 new players needed.Four defenders,2 keepers,2 midfielders,2 strikers.Sturridge,ings,karius,kavlan, Lucas etc to be sold.