Will Liverpool find their rebellious cry against Everton?

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Publication date: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 9:17 AM

There was something unhinged in Liverpool on Sunday. It’s best to leave it for 48 hours to make sure there is no knee-jerk reaction or just to verify that it really happened. Even so, the aftermath of the 7-2 loss still leaves an appalling stench even after the initial investigation has been carried out and the unmarked areas have been crossed out. Cameras have already been used to identify the usual suspects. Has anyone seen Adrian run past a soccer ball recently?

To be fair to the Spaniard, he hangs on the team.

Sir Alex Ferguson once said, “We should only surrender when we are dead.” Soccer communicates desire like few things, and powerful body language is the first sign that you’ve come to play …

Liverpool did come out to play, but that was it. Is not sufficient. The Premier League is a test of everything, like a test match in 90 minutes.

It was Jurgen Klopp himself who identified a similar problem in the same meeting at Villa Park in November, when his team fell behind at halftime. “I didn’t like the body language in the first half, that’s exactly how it is. We weren’t as warriors, we were like players … body language is hugely important. “The 2-1 victory was pivotal to the ensuing title race. You wonder if this crushing setback will now have an aftershock in the wrong direction.

Where were the warriors? Well, there was Andy Robertson and then there was … well, it’s hard to think of someone who came out with a sword and shield other than left-back Macbeth. Klopp said: “They were very physical, very intelligent and very direct, we were not. Liverpool were simply players on stage without their lines. Or presence. Virgil Van Dijk only looked really angry when seventh came in; The crash test dummies would have lined up better for Villa’s room. The ship was sinking with all hands on deck doing very little, but playing violins as a hungry and organized opposition squeezed the pressure points until the rivets stretched and split. Not even Jurgen Klopp’s sadistic smile it could take a lot longer.

Liverpool’s great Scotsman was honest: “We weren’t good enough. We never won our second balls, we never won our challenges, we never scored with the opportunities we created in the first half, because we did have some. “

So where to start and where to end? The problem with this type of result is that it makes the Reds appear vulnerable in a way they had fired three years ago. The collateral damage from this outcome would be catastrophic if the harsh truth is not faced.

This particular international getaway will be one of the least enjoyable on Merseyside. October 17 at Goodison Park can’t come fast enough. Or maybe it will come too fast. There will only be two days to prepare.

It’s hard to know how quickly this team can readjust to that scenario when all the conceded goals were like personal insults. The world is a different place, as the Reds discovered during the project reboot. They won some games. They lost some games. There was a bit of 2017/18 oversight and basketball style scores. It did not matter. Liverpool had the title. Things would reset.

Except they haven’t. Leeds cut them off. Chelsea never dared to attack but could have stolen a point with two great chances when they had ten men. Even the Arsenal somehow stayed in the game last Monday and I should have made it 2-2. The high-risk strategy has been faltering and was ambushed as soon as Villa brought down the drawbridge. Add this to the rotten fruit of abysmal gambling and the bad luck that comes with it and there is your undiluted monster of a result.

Klopp will remain admirably true to its Spanish cap. No choice. In the business weeks that matter, Liverpool has tended to get dirty and dirty. It’s been an incredible streak of just four league losses in two superlative seasons. Events conspired against them before Sunday night; the cumulative effect of not turning over their all-metal jackets added to Dean Smith’s clever tactics and wreaked havoc. Still, the image was haunting.

When Gini Wijnaldum brought Liverpool back to parity against Barcelona last May in that epic Champions League semi-final, the visuals that stick are not necessarily the celebrations that followed in those crazy minutes, but the haunted look on the faces of Luis Suárez and Lionel Messi. They trudged back to the middle line. Liverpool needed no further encouragement to see that they had won the fight even though the scorecards were level at the time.

Spanish writer Juan Jiménez brutally wrote in AS that the Catalan team “had no personality and was… incapable of doing anything but praying for time to pass. A team that didn’t even rebel. ‘

That was Liverpool on Sunday. A team that did not rebel. It should hurt a lot. It is not in your DNA to fold. Everton waits. If that doesn’t motivate, nothing will.

Tim Ellis – follow him on twitter



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