Originally Posted by mattlewis86:
“The one thing yesterday pointed out is that with this squad we won't win the title, we need centre backs and a goalkeeper who won't buckle under pressure. Carragher was right with what he said, anytime our back four and GK is put under a period of sustained pressure, they collapse.
Yesterday was a massive kick in the teeth and showed the difference between us and the rest of the top teams. Neither Chelsea, Arsenal, City or Spurs would be 3-1 up away to a team bottom half of the table with 15 minutes to go and lose 4-3. Liverpool are always prone to collapsing, the others aren't.
I'm also not convinced by Karius at the moment, I felt he should have saved their second and fourth goal. He's looking very shaky at the moment which obviously wouldn't make the defence all that confident in him.
At the end of the day we are still 3rd at the moment and we would have all taken that before the season started, I was hoping to challenge for a top 4 spot this year which it looks like we will make. Even with a 2 goal lead as soon as the opposition make it 2-1 you know Liverpool will probably collapse, until that is addressed we won't be title challengers.”
“The one thing yesterday pointed out is that with this squad we won't win the title, we need centre backs and a goalkeeper who won't buckle under pressure. Carragher was right with what he said, anytime our back four and GK is put under a period of sustained pressure, they collapse.
Yesterday was a massive kick in the teeth and showed the difference between us and the rest of the top teams. Neither Chelsea, Arsenal, City or Spurs would be 3-1 up away to a team bottom half of the table with 15 minutes to go and lose 4-3. Liverpool are always prone to collapsing, the others aren't.
I'm also not convinced by Karius at the moment, I felt he should have saved their second and fourth goal. He's looking very shaky at the moment which obviously wouldn't make the defence all that confident in him.
At the end of the day we are still 3rd at the moment and we would have all taken that before the season started, I was hoping to challenge for a top 4 spot this year which it looks like we will make. Even with a 2 goal lead as soon as the opposition make it 2-1 you know Liverpool will probably collapse, until that is addressed we won't be title challengers.”
Not buying the generalsation here - we've held on on numerous occasions this season and last afrer being pegged back.
It's purely a symptom of our style of play and the personnel we have playing at any one time - having a makeshift centre half who's not physically or aerially dominant is not ideal when a home team are pushing forward and I agree the goalkeeper is still an issue.
However, the style that sees us blitz teams in 20 minutes will occasionally mean we have days like yesterday. Had Origi's late effort been inches lower we may be a lot happier today. Klopp will learn - he should've put Klavan on and moved Lucas into a holding role at 1-3 with 15 left. We really missed Matip that's for sure.
Such a collapse has only happened once this season and I'll take that with 9 wins and 34 goals in the bank already. Mourinho has dropped seven points from conceding late goals. I think over the season we'll gain more points playing the way we do than lose them so as long as it doesn't happen every other week I'm happy to roll the dice.
Beefing up the squad will pnly help - but to infer this a regular and terminal flaw at the club is wide of the mark in my opinion.



