Lallana in Pyjamas » Sun Aug 26, 2018 2:22 pm wrote:Keita is not a defensive midfielder , he is a box to box midfielder who can do all roles but yesterday was playing high close to the front three - which was also an issue because the middle of the park was getting crowded and he was getting into spaces that the front three were trying to find - because Brighton were packing that solidly. So what the team needed to do was not flood the middle up high but look to spread the play with the use of Robertson and AA very high - something explained very well on motd.
But as for the nonsense about water carriers - here is a couple of stats for you about those “water carriers” - Milner played more forward passes in the opposition half than anyone else , remind us again who was pressing high to rob the Brighton player of the ball for our goal - Milner and Gini had more forward dribbles going past more people than anyone else on the pitch and his pass map clearly shows he is far from a water carrier.
For someone to suggest Klopp was being gun shy and conservative confirms your lack of understand of his way of play and also how we played yesterday - the stats show the team were far from conservative and certainly not gun shy - off aim maybe but you make it sound like we were the team sitting deep with 11 men behind the ball and a bank of three sat in front of the CB’s - heat maps will tell you that’s far from the case. You clearly have got pre conceived ideas about our midfield which is baseless - what they do on the pitch proves your theory wrong.
You clearly know more about Keita than he knows about himself, go look at his first interview for LFC TV, he describes himself as primarily a defensive player.
And I don't care what the stats say, football is a sport not a science, Milner, Henderson and Wijnaldum are not creative players, yes they might throw the odd ball into the box that someone gets on the end of but that's not what I'd call a creative player, to me creative players are the likes of Kenny Dalglish, Peter Beardsley, John Barnes and even Steven Gerrard. Creative players are players who see passes other players don't see, if I took corners and free kicks all season for a team like Wimbledon in the 80's I'd probably finish the season with 20 assists, that wouldn't make me a creative player though the stats would argue otherwise.