Rob Gutmann, standing in for Neil Atkinson, is joined by Sean Rogers and Paul Cope to have the definitive look back on where it all went wrong for Liverpool at Leicester.
What did Liverpool get wrong, why do they keep getting it wrong and can the manager do to stop the bleeding.
It’s not pretty, but it’s essential listening.
It’s just a massive, collective mental block we now have against these kinds of teams.
Thanks for the review guys but you all brought up even more issues to be pissed off about. Lol. It seems more common sense than anything to appeal for any foul in the box. Even myself in Sunday footy. Just appealing for anything when we are down. Agreed with the Leicester player attitudes. Disgraceful for what they did to Ranieri. Being shite or season then turning up and playing like world champions after sacking Ranieri.
Dreadful stuff, not the show lads, the performance.
I think the fact we all knew what was coming from Leicester makes this Klopp’s team worst performance and his. High defensive line with Lucas up against Vardy, accident waiting to happen.
My worry is Klopp does not seem to be as tactically astute as I thought he would be, he has one way of playing and the change comes through the personal rather than the formation either from the start or in game. The problem is the personal behind the first 11 is not where it should be for a side aiming for top 4.
On our day we are a very good side but on days when we are not clicking we have very little moves to make from the bench which will make a real difference.
Massive window for us coming up, I seem to have been saying this for years but we have got to buy top quality rather than young squad players that may come through in future.
Lastly I have to admit I did listen to another podcast and they all thought Cann had a pretty good game !!
Anyway the Arse on Saturday night so defo 3 points against top 4 side!, then Burnley which I am going to, anyone want to swap!
Thanks lads
Agreed. The frustration is that he can adapt, he did against United, but chooses not to do so despite a welter of evidence piling up before him.
I agree with Aldridge in todays Echo…
‘The top teams have a balance. They can play football when they’re allowed to, and they can battle and scrap when they’re not.
Look at Chelsea. The perfect balance. They can outplay you or outfight you.’
‘When you play in the Premier League, you have to be ready to come up against the teams that play and the teams that fight. And against the latter, Liverpool have been found out repeatedly.’
Says a lot about the character of our team… one stinging challenge on Mane in the opening minute, and they’d all prefer to be off somewhere else baking brownies.
No reaction from anyone… pathetic.
Manage a big club,fail to get CL,Moyes,Lvg,Rafa,Kenny,Brendan all got fired.Evans never out of top four,Ged finished fourth in his final season.Defence constantly concedes 50 pl goals a season.No euro football next season,goodbye to the runner up Klopp.J mourino always wins finals.
Went looking for a stat like this and found it on the Empire of the Kop
“This term, Liverpool have won 65% of games the skipper has started, but only 33% when he’s missed out…”
From an another article from last season it was “average 1.87 points per game” when Henderson plays and “1.13 points per game” when he doesn’t.
Been the same story going back to 13/14 for mine. Highlighting how important he is no matter where he plays. Have been thinking it is probably because he is the guy who never stops moving/thinking and fills in all the holes that other players leave when they are pressing/attacking in a fluid system. When someone like that is missing from the team, it seems to all break down because the other players are in the habit of playing a certain way but when they do there are now gaps everywhere.
Instead of Costa or Hazard, I wonder if the same thing would happen if you were to take Kante out of the Chelsea team.
Also, easy with hindsight given how poor Can (and potentially the injuries to Grujic and Ejaria) has been but I think it was a terrible decision to let Allen go. He is the guy you needed on Monday so come on and get control of that game to give us a platform to get at Huth and Morgan. Sure you might want someone with more athleticism long-term but letting him go has left us very susceptible to injuries in the midfield.
The stats back you up. Kante has only lost 6 Premier League games.
Great show. I’ve been waiting for this type of analysis since Monday night. The only thing missing was a reference to the City game i.e. not playing a high line against Leicester ‘cos, duh, Lucas isn’t going to win a footrace with Jamie Vardy. Love Klopp, but all managers need to rely on evidence, there’s a way to beat Leicester and a way to hand them the game: we chose the latter.
As for the subs: absolutely barmy. Again, glad to see someone ask what Bobby needs to do to get the hook. No problem with a back-three (despite the one striker) as it gets the best out of Can, but Clyne as a wing-back? Mane off? Fucking bananas.
Blaming Mignolet for any of what happened is pathetic. Wasn’t even worth mentioning – scapegoating pure and simple.