It will have been a good win for Brentford, they've been clearly better than us other than a few minutes after half time.
Pathetic stuff. Fair play Brentford, they setup right and should have been out of sight by half time. Nunez has to have more compusure when played in by Salah, shocking attempt.
Very poor again. The build up play is slow and we lack the pace and guile of Dias and Jota to open teams up. Only Ali and Trent can come out of the game with credit. It's hard to see us make Top 4 now.
Won’t give up on top 4 yet , we’ve still Diaz Jota and Gakpo to come in . But would have liked a quality CM Dry January it’s over now
I've noticed Mo barely gets mentioned on days like these, Harvey, Keita and others will get the grief but Mo done the square root of fuck all for the 2nd game in a row. If you're not helping the defence then you have to have to be contributing more. His numbers Will look OK for the season but they don't tell the story, he's had 7 or 8 non performances this season.
Oxlaide Chamberlain our best outfield player by a mile,but everybody else was shit. Elliott will get a lot of stick,but he's a kid in a team without a functioning midfield so it's probably best to save the post mortems of his career as a midfielder for the time being. Jurgen Klopp thinks he has the attributes to play there so if you can't see them,look harder. But at this point,I wouldn't have him in there either because its an awful time to be learning on the job in our team. Got what we deserved and fair play to Brentford, they've plenty of bollocks. Shows lesser teams don't have to be submissive to get results.
Fabinho had a baby 48 hours ago. I didn't think he'd be playing tonight. I didn't think/notice Elliott being as bad as most others are saying. He is young and playing in a struggling team.
Jaysus I hope his stitches healed etc ;-) On a separate note. It wasnt really surprising as it's happening too regularly. Fully agree with your post about Harvey elliot @babbsnads
Got beat by the better team. No fight from us. Seem easily bullied and pushed of the ball..all to do for get top 4.
Still think can get top four. Going to be a lot of points dropped. All those teams around LFC playing each other next few weeks. Could really do with another body in midfield. Missed Milner tonight.
I think we're back to where we were a few months back when he switched to a solid 442. The system is failing again, its too easy to walk through us. We actually look vulnerable when Thiago has the ball, risky passes that have to reach their target or the opposition are at us. Mo needs shifting from the right, he's just not helping the team enough defensively and having too many non performances. Harvey needs to step out, keep Mo and Nunez and play for 1 nils.
Klopp needs to change how he sets the team up. We don't have the players to play how he likes to play so he needs to adapt. Putting our CBs on an island isn't working anymore. We need to be tighter and stop conceding the 1st goal EVERY game
Lots of talks about formations and players that should be playing or shouldn't be playing. Our main issue is in midfield, ok. But the entire squad seem mentally tired since May - they're not the same team as last season. I said it a couple of times already, unfortunately we haven't re-found our energy yet.
I've no idea how we fix this, I think we need more than 1 midfielder but we badly need one in now, one who has energy to burn to do the leg work of the rest. Tall order to get top 4 now but we're capable if we can get going but don't see how