Re: Race for Champs league spot
Posted: Sun May 06, 2018 11:14 pm
Ghost of Shankly » Sun May 06, 2018 9:22 pm wrote:ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Sun May 06, 2018 9:23 pm wrote:Klopp: 'We don't have the squad. We have injury problems. The players coming back are without rhythm. We have 11/12 players who play constantly - that never helps.'
They are all probably well knackered!
Klopp needs to address this in the summer, some decent back up for our strikers and another top midfielder, as well as Keita.
They are shattered mate, even Mo, he looks like he hasn't got much more left to give.
The players have been absolutely magnificent this season, in this country just to finish in the top 4 takes some doing so to get to a CL final as well is nothing short of phenomenal, to fight on 2 very competitive fronts with a threadbare squad like ours, playing the type of high intensity football we do...its been an incredible effort, one of the gutsiest I've ever seen.
There are groups of players around the world who would have thrown the towel in mentally when Coutinho was sold mid season but our lads took it on the chin and scrapped and fought like tigers.
Could you imagine Tottenham getting to a CL final if Kane was sold halfway through the season or Chelsea if Hazard was? No chance.
I think that last spate of injuries when Emre, Lallana, Gomez and Chambo all got injured around the same time was probably the straw that broke the camels back though. It left us stretched to the absolute limit squad wise and pretty much left Jurgen with no other option but to run our starting XI into the ground.
Whatever happens over these last 2 matches the lads cannot be accused of not playing for the shirt, they have given everything and more. They deserve to win that CL, wether they are actually physically capable of doing so we'll have to wait and see.