Dissection time. WTF is going on?!
This team is a shadow of last year, and please rule out the Suarez factor as we played brilliantly without him last season as well as when he was in the team.
- The defence is still poor. Flanno would make a difference but he's forever away from being fit, I do think we have individually good players BUT there is no leadership and for me, this boils down to Mingolet. He's a 'shot stopper' but truly great keepers stop the shots from even being taken by controlling their defence and pinpoint distribution. I hope the Valdes rumours are true and we should take a punt on him even if he's not 100% fit.
- Not that we can afford to, but Sterling looks like he needs a break. Too much responsibility, too fast and he feels he has to create something every single time.
- The up front pressure and counter attack are too low and too slow. We let teams get numbers behind the ball which is ridiculous when we have invested in pace (Markovic, Lallana, Moreno, etc)
- Shoot, shoot, shoot!
Still, we're in the CL, we still have an excellent chance of progressing, we're only 4 points off 4th in the Premiership and we can only get better (surely?). The expectations for this season are massive given what we did last year, but I think we got ahead of the curve last season and Rodgers and FSG will be aware of that and won't be in panic mode yet.
Twitter is a depressing place to be when we lose, not because of fans from other team, but because of our own 'fans'.