ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC" part 3

[wandyr79]

Wasn't the whole team utterly terrible in that time frame, they were top at Xmas and then lost something like 8 games at home in a row and didn't win for something like 12 games, and not scoring.

The were leaking goals, they had midfielders in defence and the forwards suffered from the team being so deep and they struggled for goals.

Like i said, they have their rapid CB's back, the CB's push right up to the halfway line, it allows them to flood the final 3rd of the pitch where they end up having 5 attackers with the FB's and front 3.

The FB's are the playmakers of a Klopp team, the creative outlet, if they are to deep then Klopp's system is broke, and that was shown in the middle part of the season, the whole team were utterly terrible because of a broken system that collapsed because they could not have CB's who were comfortable or quick enough using a starting point of the halfway line, which gave license for the FB's to push constantly high up the pitch.

The reason they had that unbeaten push for the top 4 spot, is Klopp just decided to push his slow CB's at the halfway point and go back to the system they know and push the FB's up and play the normal game , it was a risky strategy that paid off in the end finishing top 4, it also got them knocked out of the CL, they played that suicidal high line with the slow CB's against Madrid with the FB's high and Kroos, Modric pinged constant balls to the vacated RB area with the isolated slow Phillips exposed and Vinicius punished them constanly, amazingly no English teams followed that tactic in those last 10 games.

Oh my, absolutely no words for this, seriously no words.

 

[Ray Purchase]

Wasn't the whole team utterly terrible in that time frame, they were top at Xmas and then lost something like 8 games at home in a row and didn't win for something like 12 games, and not scoring.

The were leaking goals, they had midfielders in defence and the forwards suffered from the team being so deep and they struggled for goals.

Like i said, they have their rapid CB's back, the CB's push right up to the halfway line, it allows them to flood the final 3rd of the pitch where they end up having 5 attackers with the FB's and front 3.

The FB's are the playmakers of a Klopp team, the creative outlet, if they are to deep then Klopp's system is broke, and that was shown in the middle part of the season, the whole team were utterly terrible because of a broken system that collapsed because they could not have CB's who were comfortable or quick enough using a starting point of the halfway line, which gave license for the FB's to push constantly high up the pitch.

The reason they had that unbeaten push for the top 4 spot, is Klopp just decided to push his slow CB's at the halfway point and go back to the system they know and push the FB's up and play the normal game , it was a risky strategy that paid off in the end finishing top 4, it also got them knocked out of the CL, they played that suicidal high line with the slow CB's against Madrid with the FB's high and Kroos, Modric pinged constant balls to the vacated RB area with the isolated slow Phillips exposed and Vinicius punished them constanly, amazingly no English teams followed that tactic in those last 10 games.

A brilliant piece of analysis mate, you should apply to the Echo for a job.

 

[brigadier]

Henderson is a tidy play and nothing more, doesn't do do anything eye catching, and does the simple things, a lot of top teams always have a midfielder like that in a team, a grafter in other words, they help function a balanced midfield, the DM, the grafter (box to box), the creative player, it seems to be the archetype midfield balance.

Without his work rate hes a league 1 player.

 

[mawders]

Hes a decent lad by all accounts know a couple of people who know him

Nope. You're not allowed to say that

 

[PITA]

Henderson is a very good midfielder. He has the ability and intelligence to play multiple midfield roles and as we saw last season he is a competent CB. Added to that he is Liverpool’s inspirational leader on the pitch. I genuinely can’t name a better captain in the premier league right now. When assessing a player’s abilities one is best advised to consider the player’s net contribution to the team and Henderson scores highly on that front.

Keep taking your meds.

 

[Dad watched Dixie]

Hands up. Who has been bullying the RS trolls?

 

[Ray Purchase]

Hands up. Who has been bullying the RS trolls?

 

[arch stanton]

Without Jurgen's special Run Run juice hes a league 1 player.

fixed it

 

[mightymoyes]

The tackle on Richarlison wasn't much different to the one that broke Elliotts leg yesterday but not even a booking!

 

[Yarrgh]

The tackle on Richarlison wasn't much different to the one that broke Elliotts leg yesterday but not even a booking!

Benitez doesn't have a run in him to get over the line onto the pitch, let alone reach the ref.

 

[Baileys perm]

Oh my, absolutely no words for this, seriously no words.

He on the other hand has loads of words!! Maybe too many??

 

[duncs pigeon]

A brilliant piece of analysis mate, you should apply to the Echo for a job.

Or p##s off to rawk

 

[catcherintherye]

Apologies if this has already been posted somewhere. Disgraceful.

It doesnt count when they mock the dead, again. I even saw some of them getting offended Leeds fans were singing the Munich song. And they say irony is dead.

 

[catcherintherye]

The reason for that is the fast CB's behind who can cover when him and Robertson are marauding forward , he has 3 assists already in 4 games, they are back to squeezing the pitch high up with the CB's which makes the fullbacks the main creative outlet.

Matip, Gomez and VVD are rapid highline CB's who defend at the halfway line, when they were not in the team in any combination last season then the fullbacks had to hold the line because of the slow CBs for 30 odd games of the season, it's why their assists numbers were down so much and why they struggled to break down teams who sat back.

I did read on Statsbomb yesterday that Matip and VVD have started 34 PL games together, are unbeaten and conceded 14 goals.

Matip is one of the slowest centre backs I've seen. Hes an elegant player on the ball, reads the game well and decent in the air but hes not quick at all.

He will be injured again soon though.

 

[catcherintherye]

Yeah - Cracking lad, just misunderstood i'm sure

Comes across as an abusive male, and a racist. Genuine shame his leg didnt fall off. Utter scum like him shouldn't be allowed to walk the streets without being in fear. Hopefully someone snaps his leg properly if he ever comes back.