ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Sun Oct 30, 2022 7:14 pm wrote:I’m not sure how you lads feel but every time we lose the ball at the edge of the oppositions box (not our one) I m instantly thinking to myself we are in sh*t here. We just don’t seem to be able to cope with counter attacks. It’s not even funny how succeptable we are to fast breaks
I think it is a combination of missing Gini and Mane who were both very good at getting back quickly.
The most shocking thing for me is we are being out run and out worked, the thing we were masters at when Klopp first came. I don’t buy that the players are run into the ground, these are professional athletes and while people may say they are old, they are 30 and in their prime, still perfectly capable with putting in a shift, there is no way they have been worked to death that now they can’t run. I think it is more about attitude. When they came to the team they were all hungry and had a point to prove, since then we have won everything and pressing and working hard is what up and coming teams do, not champions. I think complacency and fear of injury before the WC is why we have become a soft team. Not sure I agree with the narrative that the owners are purely to blame, these same players last year came within a whisker of the quadruple, a feat never done. Now they cannot run back and defend? There is a shift in dynamic within the team, and it’s worrying. Unlike the money bags teams we earned our success on team chemistry and the whole being better than the part, we don’t have that now.
There is no way, Fabinho, Thiago, Hendo (but he is and always has been limited), Matip, VVD, Firmino, Salah, are over the hill, they are in their prime which is 28-32 years old. It’s about attitude! Tell any of these players that their child or wife is in danger they will sprint three miles home in record time. They are perfectly capable of sprinting like their life depended on it, they are just not doing it. It’s about attitude!
That is my take on things anyway