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Liverpool under scrutiny after slow start in Premier League

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Updated: August 23rd, 2022, 17:52 IST
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Jurgen Klopp

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp's frustration is quite obvious

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London: Their foreheads nearly touching, Liverpool teammates James Milner and Virgil van Dijk exchanged furious words on the field. They pointed, gesticulated and looked utterly disgusted. Liverpool had just fallen behind for the seventh straight Premier League game and, amid the bedlam inside a reawakened Old Trafford, two of the team’s senior players were going after each other. A sign that they care? Maybe.

To many people, though, that moment will be used to show all is not quite right inside Jurgen Klopp’s team. The results bear that out, too.

It’s always dangerous to jump to early-season conclusions — only three rounds of games have been played, after all. However, such have been the fine margins in Premier League title races in recent years that every point counts.

And Liverpool, already, have dropped seven of them after the 1-2 loss Monday to Manchester United followed draws against Fulham and Crystal Palace.

The Premier League’s crisis club for the first two weeks was Man United. Now, much of the scrutiny will switch to Liverpool.

“The team are tight, we are a close unit but things need to be said sometimes,” Liverpool defender Andy Robertson said. “Things will get better. But we are far behind where we want to be,” he added.

In all likelihood, Liverpool will pick up their first win of the season Saturday against Bournemouth. The latter are a promoted team that have s just shipped a total of seven goals in losses to Manchester City and Arsenal.

The first three games have highlighted some problems for the Reds.

Injuries taking toll

Liverpool’s strength in depth has improved immeasurably in recent seasons but the glut of injuries afflicting the squad is a concern. Klopp said he was down to ‘14, 15 senior players’ for the Man United game with the following out injured. The injured were defenders Ibrahima Konate and Joel Matip, midfielders Thiago Alcantara, Naby Keita and Curtis Jones, and forward Diogo Jota. Meanwhile, Darwin Núñez, the new signing up front, was serving the first match of a three-game suspension.

So, it meant Liverpool were playing their fifth-choice forward (Roberto Firmino), their fourth-choice central defender (Joe Gomez) and a journeyman midfielder (James Milner). Klopp filled his bench with two back-up goalkeepers. “I’m concerned about our situation,” Klopp had said before the game against Man United.

Weakened midfield

The midfield might be the biggest area of concern, even if Klopp maintains his options there are sufficient. Without Thiago, Liverpool lack a player to run a game and deliver a killer ball. Fabinho, the Brazil anchorman, was dropped against Manchester United because of a middling start to the season. Jordan Henderson is a leader, sure, but rarely plays 90 minutes these days. Keita is hit and miss, yet to develop into the dynamic player Liverpool thought it was getting. Milner, at 36, has played the last two games despite being well past his best.

Liverpool’s failure to buy a midfielder in this transfer window and move on others looks to be a misjudgment, with Klopp perhaps having too much faith in players who have served him so well.

Jude Bellingham of Borussia Dortmund might be the midfielder Liverpool are waiting to get next year. Maybe the Reds should have gone all out this summer.

Struggling Van Djik

He was turned easily by Aleksandar Mitrovic and gave away a penalty in the opening-weekend draw at Fulham. He stood like a statue as Jadon Sancho lined up his shot to put Manchester United ahead Monday. That’s two more errors than Van Dijk usually makes in an entire season.

If the imposing Dutchman — the player who holds the defence together — is off the pace, it is bound to seep into the rest of the team.

Van Dijk hasn’t been helped by having to start alongside three different centre-back partners already this season, in Matip, Nat Phillips and Gomez.

The Reds have conceded the first goal in all three games and now in nine of their last 10 competitive games. They need to be switched on earlier in games.

Missing Mane

Sadio Mane was a mainstay in Liverpool’s attack for six years, a regular source of goals and the provider of so much energy and thrust that it helped his teammates around him. In the second half of last season, he mostly started as a centre forward and was more prolific and important than Mohamed Salah.

Mane is sorely missed following his move to Bayern Munich, where he sought a new challenge. Luis Diaz is a fine replacement — Klopp called the Colombian ‘special’ last week — but it’s asking a lot of him to have the same output as Mane.

With Firmino on the decline and the tall Núñez a very different type of striker, Liverpool has a remodeled attack that requires a whole new style of play. That may take time and, after such a poor start to the season, time is already something Liverpool doesn’t really have.

 

Tags: InjuriesJurgen KloppLIVERPOOLManchester UnitedMohamed SalahSadio ManeVirgil van Dijk
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