Liverpool is the worst team in the league in successful tackles percentage, add to that constant rotations due to injuries and you get an exhausted team that is full of players that have to keep playing.
Our pressing is nonexistent, which hinders our defensive game more than any statistic can show.
In our last game we made 14 tackles, half of them unsuccessful, with Thiago having 6 of these. Henderson and Fabinho were without a successful tackle in 90 minutes of football.
This team needs a hard reset, I expect us to be way better after the full summer break but there's still CL to fight for. Not getting top 4 will raise many unwanted questions - and I feel like we'll come up just short of the places leading there.
Yeah... Fabinho has been at sea this whole season, and you can sense and feel it's simple deep fatigue. Legs flailing out slow. Thiago's the only one looking sharp in midfield, Elliott at first, no longer. Salah probably benefited from no World Cup but he's not going to change our team fortunes from the wing.
Hard reset is absolutely what we need and I hope we get.
Our pressing too... we have to decide if we give it up without the personnel. Gakpo's our latest addition and he and Nunez are not the kind of pressers we need (yet).
Forrest and Newcastle are still in it along with Southampton so maybe they might take it more seriously than Man United who are the only other club still in it, though I think United might now push for it given it's probably the only thing they're in with a chance of winning this year.
ETH wants this so badly I know he'll want to pour everything into it. Just hope Newcastle give it a right go -- but N'ham or Saints winning it would be the coolest possible outcome for the neutral.
