ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Thu Oct 04, 2018 11:56 pm wrote:Lallana in Pyjamas » Thu Oct 04, 2018 7:25 pm wrote:Playing Shaqiri in the middle of the park yesterday would have left the team even further exposed - Just people trying to shoe horn square pegs into round holes. We were horribly exposed against Leicester with him there. He is a skillfull talented player who will flourish at Liverpool but it won’t be in midfield. People are desperately trying to blame the midfield and desperate to put people to replace Coutinho. Shaqiri will play in the front three just like on many occasions Coutinho played in the front three. We have 6 centre mids who will play take up those three roles - Firmino won’t be one of them and it’s highly likely that Shaqiri will be.
You are all over the place. Against Leicester Shaquiri and Keita came on as subs with 20 minutes to go and changed the game, before that we were getting over run. You are thinking of the Southampton game when Jurgen took him off at HT when we were 3-0 up.
Yes sorry it was Southampton - any decent team would have gone right through the middle of us that day with Shaqiri in the middle - Napoli would have had a field day with Shaqiri in the midfield.
The main point still stands - people are still trying to shoe horn someone into the middle of the park. Once settled Keita is going to be the one in the middle bursting forward to support the guys up high , or Gini or even Milner and when back Ox.