Reg » Mon Jan 18, 2021 11:42 am wrote:Maybe Klopp's first team rebuild needs to start a season earlier than we thought? Paisley would be looking for another Jota to replace either Mo or Bobby. What we shouldn't do though is sit on our hands and do nothing. I think Bobby's going through a patch of bad form, Mo's problem seems to be deeper.
That said, teams have learnt to get 7 defenders back into the box like lightening to ensure when the cross does come in that it's 7 on 2 and Mo and Bobby don't stand a chance. Our game is being smothered.
I tend to agree, teams have deffo worked us out, as you say get everyone behind the ball and hit us on the counter, as bad as this recent run has been as well it could have easily been even worse, by hitting us on the break teams have had chances and Alisson has made some big saves lately, but for him a lot of these frustrating draws could have easily been losses.
Saying all that as poor as we are at breaking down packed defences we do still chisel out one or two good opportunities a game ourselves but unusually poor finishing and decision making from the front 3 is effing us, Bobby should have deffo put Robbo through on Sunday, a simple 7 or 8 yard pass that any of us on here could have executed and Andy is clean through with just De Gea to beat and no United defenders in the same postcode. I wouldn’t even mind if there were fans in the stadium and he couldn’t hear but in an empty stadium no way should there have been a breakdown in communication between those two at that moment.
I think the loss of Virgil and Joe is not just affecting the back 4 it’s having a knock on effect right throughout the team as well, for a start it takes our best ball winner (Fab) out of the MF so we aren’t winning the ball as high up the pitch as as we used to plus because the players know we have got a makeshift defence they have always got one eye on getting back which means we are not playing with the same freedom we once did.