Will the Liverpool players cost Jurgen Klopp his job at Anfield? One contributor names five players the German should’ve sold in the summer. Plus more reaction to their loss to Leeds…
Poor Jurgen. How much he must hate that the players he has refuse to try and fight. How much he must hate that both Curtis and Millie were covering the Leeds winger but still allowed the cross to come in. That Virgil decided not to get close to the man but rather hope that he can block the shot by turning his body. Quite fitting his terrible defending is responsible for the home streak ending.
Klopp is too loyal to the same non performers week in week out and the performances lack coherence and energy – today we got outran by Leeds by more than 11km; it’s the equivalent of an extra player’s work. We beat Ajax but could’ve conceded in the first half hour which would’ve changed that game entirely. The weird thing is that now we have lost our unbeaten record at Anfield there’s really little else left to motivate and get this lot going.
Maybe he’s just gone too soft for a team that won it all. Maybe he thought they’d never stop running. Maybe he can’t see that they’ve all checked out.… a bit of a basketball affair. end to end sfuff, both defences open, both strike forces profligate. Twats will say that Leeds deserved it despite the fact that Liverpool could quite easily have won it in which case different twats would have said Liverpool deserved it.
Based on that performance, Callum Wilson surely put himself into the World Cup squad? His pressing was vicious, and the cool header and penalty will have done no harm. Almiron is scoring worldies casually now, and I think he’s playing at least as well as he ever did in Atlanta — against far more imposing opposition, bless the lad. Joelinton, of course, remains Joelinton; he worked his knackers off.