Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Strange game yesterday, although a terrific result. Such great goals too.

Thought the performance was poor overall. Our midfield was so easy to get through.

Szobolozi needs a rest. He's definitely been below par recently. Gravenberch was poor also, but he's had a good start to his Liverpool career. I feel sorry for MacAllister, he's not playing in his favoured position. Diaz didn't have his best game. I thought Trent was MOTM. Obviously the goals, but some of his passing was sublime.

Endo was great when he came on. Gakpo was very good too. Both should start on Wednesday.

It wasn't a case that our midfield was easy to get through, every chance that Fulham created came from a diagonal into the space at right back. 4 times in the first half we gave the ball away with a sloppy pass from deep, Matip and The Greek twice, can't remember who misplaced the 4th. We are completely exposed whenever that happens as Trent sets himself up in the inverted role in the middle when we’re in possession and the midfield 3 have taken their places just ahead of him so we now have an entire area on the right-hand side free, we could play peak Kante at the base of our midfield and that space is still going to get exposed as we are not set up to defend it while in possession! Klopp is going to have to address this sooner rather than later, teams are getting better and better at exposing that area as the season progresses, we either more Trent to the middle and play Gomez at RB or or we just continue with risk it all football, think of all the one on one Allision has saved us with. Now he's not there, we're going to conceded more the next few games.

Would be nice to still have bobby as a bench player because u think we should sign an additional attacker for depth.

? Strength in depth in attackers, players don't want to give the season on the bench, strange how the Henderson/ fabinho shouldn't have been sold chatter dryed up, there's consequences to keeping players too long for sentimental reasons.

I feel Bobby could offer a bit still while the other lads unfortunately we're passed it.

I said it before, but it’s not a simple as just buying a No.6 ala Fabinho, as we do not set up that way anymore. Before we used to play Fabinho at the base and our 2 No.8 would chase and hound the opposition at will, all while our full backs bombed forward. We were comfortable in the fact the legs of Fab and VVD would easily cover 90% of the gaps left behind. Now we set up with Trent at the base with the 3 midfielders further ahead, Szobo and Jones/Grav generally playing the most advanced of the 3. We no longer bomb forward down the wings either, now a lot of play goes to the feet of the now advanced 3 midfielders or diagonal balls from the centre to the wide areas through Trent. This system makes us very good on the front foot as we now have an extra ball playing midfielder in the middle to try work something and Trent offers the dual treat then from deep…the problem is obviously then when we lose the ball unexpectedly as Trent is technically the only player in the deep lying role, but he can be often very high up and out of position and also is often the one who gives the ball away, before Fab would have been sitting back waiting for such mistakes, but now for whatever reason Klopp sets us up with the midfield trio ahead of Trent at all times. Just look at Fulham’s first goal on Sunday Matip gives it away with a sloppy pass, but it highlights perfectly what happens when the system breaks down…

He missed a couple chances he definitely should've scored and had a poor game overall, but Nunez also got the "pre-assist" on the third and fourth goals. His head didn't go down and he kept fighting for everything.

The keeper was in front of the goal line, the cross bar was behind him, so the wall was coming out and away from goal when it hit him and rebounded in. Seems pretty clear the ball was not going in the direction of the goal when it hit Leno, which is the definition of an own goal.

Any word on thiago, is he dead or alive these days, some joke of a player, great when fit but the guy is made of glass, keita the second he is, time to move him on ASAP

He's been flagged offside 12 times this season in all comps. A few in the last few games alright.

He scored 2 against Brentford, but both were offside. 1 of them was unlucky as it was barely his toe offside. Hit the bar yesterday. Unlucky possibly there. If they go in, then the viewpoint around him changes.

He does need to start scoring a couple again tho after a bit of a barren run since the international break.

himself and Bajčetić are locked in Klopps basement

Any word on Robertson's return btw?

Have to agree on Tsimikas.

Both sides of his game have regressed.

His jump or lack of same for their 3rd was tough to watch.

He was ball watching. Didn’t even know the lad was coming in behind him. He never even jumped.

Robinson was like lightning on his feet and kept Salah quiet. Nunez was poor for the chances he had. Overall they had a very fast back four which kept the front line quiet. Only for wonder goals (I think the placed Endo goal was best) we would have thrown it away.

But, it’s win, even if it’s tough.

This might come across as a snide comment - honestly not meant to be - but I skip your comments every time if there's just one large block of words there. Sorry, paragraphs are your friend.

There was some comments recently about TV packages and I just clocked that Sky haven't shown a single game at Anfield yet this season. The first one will be the Man Utd game on December 17th, half way through the season. You'd expect that to change in the second half and they show most games.

Probably a ball breaking 100,000 fine for City. I'd say they would need to dig behind the couch for the change.

Nunez definitely helps the play and links up well with Salah but he has to finesse his finishing. He is the no.9 he will be judged on his goals. I want him to succeed, he has the attributes to be a world class striker if he sorts his finishing.

Sort out the hair though mate, those braids are cat

He needs to learn how to keep his composure and just place the ball I to the net. He always tries to put his laces through it. For example,the game against Toulouse where he goes around the keeper then blasts the ball at the post. He could just roll the ball in. And there's many other occasions similar to this.

I think he will hit a purple patch where all those chances go in, it might be a couple of seasons away or a couple of weeks,he is only 24, he gives entertainment and frustration no end.

Some people have had it in from him from the start.

I'm sure he will be a success. He is up for the challenge anyways.

The midfielders might ease the burden on Mo as well!

Read an interesting stat on twitter about Nunez,when we bought him he was aged 23 and had played about 9500 mins of club football. Torres was also signed at age 23 but had nearly 13000 mins played. Now I'm not saying Nunez will turn into torres but maybe he might develop a bit later than torres.

This is not making excuses for him either because at the end of the day his job is to put the ball in the net and he had 2 good chances yesterday and couldn't do it. But I think everyone can agree his overall game has improved on last season