and as you can see the five
girls off three, Virgil hasn't played well, and I catch
struggled a bit to be fair
it's more than just injuries. Why is Liverpool conceding so
much and you go ahead and answer that very complicated
question.
I know the question was aside from injuries but I think that
might also play a little bit of a part of it but Van Dyke
specifically. And I'll just kind of read a little bit here
from the player ratings because I tackled that point as
specifically
the entirety of what Liverpool's run is title
contenders in the Premier League. Champions League
contenders Champions League winners and and on, and on, and
on, in the Cuffs Van Dyke showed, once, or twice every
single game
unquestionably, I am the best defender in the world because
I can make plays that. No one else can make. I can make
the plays that literally save a goal. Save a game, save three
points for this team
and I just don't think he's that player anymore. I don't
think he's able to make those plays especially in the open
field. I think United. Second goal was a perfect example of
that Peak. Virgil Van Dyke sees, Anthony Marshall Y'all
get on that ball and he's either straight into him with
the challenge and winning the
ball, back for Liverpool and starting the counter the other
way or he is before, Marshall even gets on the ball running
back towards his own goal. Making either a slide tackle to
cut out the through ball to Ratchford or he's getting in
with a last-ditch slide
tackle to block the shot and he's just not that player
anymore and I think there's a huge trickle-down effect for
everybody in that Liverpool team because the way they have
pressed the way that they have attacked has all been built on.
Van Dyke can save us
if Everything goes wrong and things. Do we always talk
about? Well, Liverpool are going to give up some chances.
They're going to get they're going to get, you know, teams
in behind.
But Van Dyke always makes the play. I don't think he's making
those plays right now and that's got to be a big reason
for those five goals in three games. Yeah, you know, it,
I mean, Pilots we saw it and it's just so direct full of as well,
just getting in behind. It's
like, teams are reading this play book,
just to get in behind turn them.
And this is a great Point by Daniel head, Nicholas discussed
this, he says, perhaps Liverpool want to have
an average season with 12.
Fee and they obviously don't want to but perhaps they are
going to weave one Trophy
and recoup after the extremely fatigued and exhausting last
season,
that's a good point, right? I mean you sure you're going, pop
agree to that, he's going to be walking past us in a minute
into the press conference but
he's been saying this a really short preseason. A lot of
energy like this is going to be right into his Playbook. Right.
I know you love that
hated so much hated so much. I like the I like the kind of
Cheeky point from the look at all this Glory we've had for so
long and that's the case.
Look, it's Joe Gomez next to Virgil Van Dyke,
that's gonna hurt him and I don't mean that Van Dyke's.
I mean, Van Dyke used to be that guy where he was out there. So
who put whatever three guys you want with them?
And it's probably going to be fine, he had a great tackle
early, right? Was that on?
Was it on Ratchford where he closed them down to the right
side and poked it away? So I didn't think it was absolutely
terrible. But again, you need
a Supporting Cast.
And for being your way out there, makes his life better
key to makes his lighter better than Tiago.
I mean, holy cow. We talked about how much he changed what
they did last year and it's going to take some adjustment.
I mean Diaz was I thought terrible to that? I thought he
had a really rough time heat. He worked hard. The Endeavour
was there. The Flash was there
but aside from following and getting fouled.
I thought he struggled and
and Darwin Nunez was a huge Miss today.
Absolutely. Huge Miss, if you want to talk about Martinez and
Adam, To the narrative.
So, so from the back, moving forward, right? And, again, he
pointed out his player ratings
Alison. Becker saves, one of those goals. A lot of games. He
saves one of those goals. It takes an exceptional save, but
he's good enough to do it. So, I just thought it was
an all-around down game with a
Midfield, who's not good enough
to play against a team with, with real talent.
I mean, Andy kind of points towards a lot of people signed
in the comments for being here with the beanie. And I was just
thinking, unless he had an injury, then that is where clop
and livable kind of lost its game, right? I mean, is it
Big moment to put Harvey Elliot in there.
James Milner was almost playing as a centre-forward at times.
He was the man getting four of us forward and Henderson was
just left totally exposed their. So United
common are thought was excellent and dictating the tempo playing
quick balls. Centrally
that we found Bruno to set up a languor when they hit the post
and you're not you kept playing direct. So was that really
tactically with Liverpool 11? Tactically personnel-wise
right? But they just got it wrong and you can put
doesn't get it wrong often but
that's That was key today.
Yeah, it's again it's not make excuses for Liverpool and
because we know clock will have plenty of his own and
everything but the injuries do matter. I will say this
when they get everybody back, cannot say being
a big part of that. Thiago being a big part of that sounds
like he'll be out for a while though. Fabinho whenever he's
maybe ready or Co-op wants him to play 90 minutes,
they'll be a better side, but I do worry just a little bit that
this could snowball very quickly for Liverpool because
And we have seen it a lot in the past where
teams that have a very, very intense style of play, a very
demanding, kind of managers friendly as he seems on
the surface and, and, you know, with the players, he's a bit
prickly
and he won't be afraid. I don't think to, to show that side to
his players, if they're not performing up to standard. And
at that point, if the results are not going your way. And
everybody's not having as much fun,
everybody is not willing to put up with
the demand and the riggers every Single day that comes
along with plane in a Jurgen klopp team. It becomes when
the when the proof is no longer there, nobody wants to,
you know, to do everything is required. And so
he's had this before
let's let's not forget and I didn't almost didn't want to
bring it up because I don't want to draw too many parallels
to quickly, but we've seen this at Dortmund with clop before.
We remember what his final season was like there. And I'm
not saying this is
immediately going to turn into that, but I do think it's worth
remembering that there is an expiration date. Or for a squad
of players. And I think that a few of those players that for
Liverpool with probably just about reached that point,
I think there's also an expiration date for a manager's
ideas and how long a set of players and even new players
coming in can
perform what a manager like Co-op wants. So, I'm just, I'm
going to keep an eye on maybe the body language and The Vibes
around Liverpool, the next few weeks and just see how they
respond. Because if there, if there doesn't appear to be any,
you know, breaks in the chemistry or everybody putting
in the hard work, As Nick pointed out with Luis Diaz,
then I think they'll be okay.
But the potential is there it is there.
I mean looking at some of the reaction that from Andrew
Robertson live pools left back off to the game, they keep
going behind in games, they keep giving themselves
a mountain to climb and even the team as good as Liverpool
can't keep shooting themselves in the foot like this and
expect to get out of trouble. So this has been coming for
a while, even though I said, they've been a 21 game unbeaten
run in the Premier League before. Today,
it's a growing Trend in like we said, slightly worrying And is
it fatigue as a lack of,
you know, like you said, Andy freshness, when it comes to
the ideas, it's going to be intriguing to see.