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Man Utd world beaters?!
That whole performance was an embarrassment. We made one of the worst Man Utd teams in twenty years look like world beaters. Worse still we watched on as they outfought, out ran and out thought us.
Carragher said it in commentary and a few people said it on Twitter too, but it seems like something has changed in the Liverpool dressing room. There’s no cohesion on the pitch anymore. Is it Salah’s contract that’s annoying the other top players? Was Mané really that important to the team spirit? Or is it Klopp’s unending loyalty to his old guard? Or the fact that all our injury prone players are all midfielders?
Firmino today was the worst defensive midfielder on the pitch. He made McTominay look like Kante. Maybe some would question why Klopp would deploy an ageing forward as a six but that’s the only explanation of why he played more than 45 minutes today. He stank the place out in the first half and actively kept us from fighting back second half. Henderson and Milner added nothing.
Man City are predictable so I don’t mind that we are predictable but when you’re predictable and easily nullified by a defence that conceded 4 to Brentford questions need to be asked. Firmino didn’t help this; he dropped so deep that both Salah and Diaz could be doubled up on.
Let’s not fool ourselves into thinking this game has shown how far Man Utd have come under the new manager. They’re going to finish 5th at best this season. But it does shine an alarming light on something being deeply wrong with Liverpool right now. I don’t mind us losing at Old Trafford; that’ll happen to any team in any season because it’s still a big club with some magic about it. Liverpool were shit through most of the 90s and still sprung up with a few wins against great United teams. The key concern is that, for the seventh time in a row, we have conceded first. For the third game this season we have looked asleep for long periods and this time we showed no determination or fight or guile at any stage on the match. Maybe last season ended up being such a damp squib and the team are still hungover from it? Either way they’ll need to wake up very soon or this season will end significantly more…
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