Unimaginative Liverpool will be worked out next season
Liverpool will be worked out next season.
We’ve seen this over the past few months. Liverpool and Jurgen Klopp are finding it more and more difficult to break down sides, while the defence is letting in more and more goals.
It started with Atletico Madrid but they’ve begun a trend that this team are finding it difficult to stop. The answer could rest in a more attacking midfield, and Bayern Munich man Thiago has been linked with a move to Merseyside.
The rest of the league has had three full seasons now to figure out how to defend against our front three and the forward minded attitudes of Andy Robertson and Trent Alexander-Arnold. They know the Reds have virtually no forward penetration through the middle of the park.
Klopp will need to do a rethink on how he can use this situation to his advantage, and come up with a fresh attacking tactic to mix up the defences. Playing the same strategy for a fourth season is just monumentally daft.
Otherwise teams will just sit back in solid blocks of four and defend vigorously on the wings and outside lanes. Which is exactly what has been happening since Watford instructed the world in how to beat Liverpool back in February. Indeed, Atletico Madrid defeated Klopp’s attacking system twice within a month.
Seventy percent of the ball is nice to see in the box score sheet, but unless this can be transferred forward to goals then it is pointless to have all the ball.
Liverpool need to spend this window, and I would begin in Napoli, with Kalidu Koulibali. Indeed, they should sell off a parcel of the family estate, hock the fine China and pawn the family silver to acquire another world class center back.
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If they want to continue to be competitive that is.
Words by Paul Landwehr.