▲ What is Liverpool forward Peter Crouch’s impression of watching the season’s first Northwest Derby? ▲ One problem with Liverpool as seen by Crouch, “The balance is broken” ▲ Firminu is also criticized for the shortcoming of the “lack of determination”
[골닷컴] Reporter Park Moon-soo = What is the reason for the recent Liverpool sluggishness that Peter Crouch, who played an active part in the past, thinks?
Liverpool’s’defending champion’ is shaking. The league ranking was also pushed back to fourth place. You can tell just by looking at the record. Liverpool failed to score 3 points in 4 consecutive games in the Premier League in about 4 years after a’North West Derby’ draw against Manchester United. That’s not all. Three consecutive games are scoreless. The hot attack power disappeared. This is also a record of disgrace after 16 years.
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So what is the problem with Liverpool? Crouch, who once played in Liverpool, diagnosed that “the team seems to have a bad balance.”
According to this media (Goal.com) Global Edition, Crouch “has lost the energy of Henderson and Fabinho in terms of midfielders alone. Here, Arnold and Robertson are more free to attack as they have shown over the past two seasons. The appearance has stopped,” he said.
He would be like that, and Liverpool’s central defense this season is virtually collapsed. All you have to do is leave the wounded ward. For example, Liverpool defenders against Manchester United were Henderson and Fabinho. Both players are a midfielder.
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Henderson and Fabinho’s shift to the center back following the defensive defensive chains of the main axis changed the team tactics as well. Losing the center point in the mid-won, the balance collapsed. The offense of Arnold and Robertson, who were able to freely attempt overlapping with the movement of the players holding the center, also disappeared.
Next is Firminou. He is a good attacker, but his lack of determination is very painful. Even though he is the team’s front-line striker, he has scored all five goals this season. Even in the United Nations, Firminou had several chances, but could not save it.
Crouch also said, “It wasn’t easy to see Manchester United on Sunday. But what surprised me was how useless the Firminu at the doorstep showed a useless movement.” It seemed to be on the rise, but, of course, this is not happening in Liverpool as well as to Firmino himself.”
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