Few, if any, covered themselves in glory during Liverpool’s lacklustre performance against Manchester United with James Pearce noting that not even Alisson Becker escaped Jurgen Klopp’s fury.
The 29-year-old Brazil international was responsible for some uncharacteristically poor distribution during proceedings as the Reds made an out-of-form Red Devils outfit look extraordinary at Old Trafford.
“Who can actually claim to have done themselves justice in the opening three games?” the reporter wrote for The Athletic.
“Maybe Luis Diaz, Mohamed Salah, Harvey Elliott and Fabio Carvalho but it’s slim pickings. So many have looked off the pace.
“Even the usually reliable Alisson managed to infuriate his manager at times against United with his wayward distribution.
“There have been so many careless errors.”
It’s telling that generally reliable performers in the shotstopper, Virgil van Dijk, Trent Alexander-Arnold, amongst others, all failed to help the Reds take back control in Manchester.
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It’s one thing to say that we need a signing or two in the window to properly address current concerns – the lack of which is starting to look increasingly ill-advised as poor performances drag on – though the reality remains that the performance could not be excused by injuries.
There was an alarming lack of energy, drive and willpower to get back into the tie and the dysfunctional nature of the midfield will have only added fuel to fire when it comes to calls for a new signing to be made before the window draws to a close.
Whether Liverpool finally get their season off to a right start or not won’t come down to a new signing being made (though it certainly wouldn’t hurt matters) – we need to get the basics right first and rediscover a level of pride in our organisation on the pitch.
Signing New players do not mean a thing if the existing players keep performing like they did.
Ok to go through all the abysmal situation in the pitch, but to look at the way it started at pre season
With all the training staff and training methods.
What I mean by that is finished the season competing in all front at 120 miles in an hour ending up finishing the playing 2 weeks after all the teams.
‘re convened the training the same time as others with intense and rigour sessions plus travelling.
Examples of the marathons runs in Austria.
This injuries start occurring and hurting us especially the injury prone players.
The last nail in the coffin is going with an uncreative midfield who could hold comptetion with united midfield or protect the defence which led to easy goals.
All we need is dusting ourselves go again.
The season is 64 games long if you go for all plus the world cup.
It doesn’t need a rocket science to see that reinforcing with few descent players for back up and rotation.
Liverpool will come good
Mo
There are a number of issues that are being ignored. There is a lack of team spirit, covering for each other and playing as a unit. This seems to be since Salah has been awarded a new contract. Salah has not been playing well since the defeat of Egypt in the AFCON Cup. Even now his running and effort has reduced noticeably. Van Dyke has not reached his previous level of form, his stance of bending forward with his hands behind his back instead of moving forward to block the goal attempt is the the reason Milner quite rightly had a go at him. TTA’s defending is diabolical at times, he holds back instead of matching the winger allowing him to go past and set up goals. When will he learn? Robinson looks like he needs a rest, he looks exhausted. Henderson looks like his age is catching up with him. Other players are continually injured. We need to start the building of the new team earlier than was planned otherwise we are going to have a very poor season.
liverpool buy some great young talent but gone are the days of old when they would serve their time in the reserves for a year or two and then eased into the first team the premier league is too competitive for that you have to buy proven players as well as young talent as i feel thats how teams stay on top, people will comment about what i have written but i don’t have an answer this is just how i feel and my opinion personally am not sure if klopp has an answer or how progress and make things right but as its been said things have to change before we fall to far behind in the league or fail to progress in other competitions which would be bad for the club compared to last season, we have not spent that much money because players have been sold to keep the net spend down overall.