Worst season of Jürgen’s career.
Lost opportunities for three out of four trophies
Do you remember how it all started? Liverpool beat Manchester City in the FA Super Cup. In the end, Salah and Nunez gave a comfortable 3:1 lead. Holland missed, Alisson helped: he took seven hits. Klopp received the first trophy, hoping for more. In forecasts, many rightly put Liverpool at least in second place in the table, suggesting a fight with the “citizens” for the championship.
And the reality is darker. The Reds were knocked out of the FA Cup by Brighton today – conceded in the 90th minute. They resigned because they beat Chelsea on penalties last year. Manet was missing, and now Sadio is often remembered. Guardiola was eliminated from the League Cup and entered Premier League For the first time in many years, Liverpool are ninth in the table. The neighborhood with Chelsea doesn’t warm the soul, it’s a synchronized failure.
Liverpool fans, by habit, are tired of giving up often, and new trials and disappointments await. Arsenal lead by 21 points in the table Premier League. In the Champions League, Real Madrid lost the match. Even success with the king, who has enough roughness in the game, does not guarantee a balm for wounds and a new ending for Klopp. The Spaniards have command skirmishes, but the wounded Real is angry and dangerous.
Let’s consider the objective reasons for the decline
At Liverpool, only six people did not go to the infirmary in the new season, twenty-one did. This fact cannot be ignored. It’s hard to win when the group of players is constantly truncated. Let’s add another important detail: last season it was the Reds who played the most games. And without a wide bench. IN Premier League a year ago, ten people played more than 2,300 minutes, this time the main clip of half of the championship is no longer – more than 1,000 minutes for nine people.
Injuries affected the functional status of both substitutes and players important to Klopp’s plans. Jota, Diaz, Konate and Matip have all lost fifteen games or more. Now Van Dijk is on the sidelines, the defensive boss where Trent never learns the rules of positional defense. We know the strength of Liverpool, especially at home. But the weaknesses have not been addressed. The fault lies also with the players themselves. Who is the leader and drag? Salah has a total of 11 assists in Premier Leaguewhile Firmino, who is looking for a new club, has 10.
Alexander-Arnold has as many assists as Jota, who played in four games. Gone are the inflexible will and the pressure that was missing in the final minutes. And the most revealing was the defeat of Naples, even if attributed to the past, because historically there have been no victories in the southern city. And when we beat Spalletti at home, we thought about it later world Cup to heal. As you can see, they were wrong. We will evaluate the depth of the crisis in the spring, but for now we can claim one victory in six games.
The coach was left without an important assistant
In Mainz, nothing was expected of Klopp. Defeats carried less weight and victories were appreciated. In Borussia, Dortmund took a troubled team and made them first in the league with Bayern. A great success that cuts the criticism. Liverpool’s Jurgen picked up underdog status. Overtaken Barcelona, he won the Champions League final. He confidently took up the assault Premier League, removed this curse. Now the club has reached a dead end, first predicted by one person.
Director Edwards left in late 2021. It’s hard to completely replace him. Klopp loves working in a team. He has had Buvac, the current Dynamo Moscow coach, by his side for a long time. Then they had a fight and the reasons for leaving Edwards are unknown. Michael refused to work at Chelsea – and he did the right thing, today they signed a guy with a market value of 15 million euros twice as much, and this is not Boeli’s first overpayment.
But Edwards, who rebuilt the team from the Europa League, also didn’t want to work at Liverpool. Klopp will handle the crisis if the players take responsibility. And if the club is waiting for a competent sale, and the new owner does not start the harvest. But if temporary problems turn into a long fall, Klopp’s resignation is inevitable. Jurgen has not forgotten how to train in the evening, but the form of a mentor, like football players, is changing.
Klopp has three games to face Real Madrid
Anyone can be dragged into the abyss. Although it will be easier for Jurgen, because he created this Liverpool himself. Ferguson inside Manchester United he also took breaks to reboot. First, the worst point recorded Premier League issued soon after Alex’s departure, and set an anti-record with Rangnik. When the coach works a long time and Klopp is a veteran Premier League among mentors, you need to think strategically, not focus on small things, such as the game especially of Gakpo and Nunez.
So did Atlético on the eve of the championship Simeone, who also lacks the Spaniard Edwards in hand. Jurgen doesn’t have his Luis Suarez to save, but the German isn’t the only Liverpool star. It is necessary to grit your teeth, not to look for extreme ones, but to analyze global errors. Before the home game against Real Madrid, three games Premier League. Klopp needs three or two wins with a decent match against Newcastle.
The German can be encouraged by the fact that the game in defense is ripped, but they go in attack better than one might think from the results. On the other hand, for a club the size of Liverpool, a season without Champions League – already a disaster. Not only financial, but also semantic. Arsenal will confirm that failures multiply by fission. Fans don’t want to believe in the worst, but Premier League – a cynical company. Slightly skidded when cornering, summed up the implementation? He immediately established himself firmly in the middle of the table and a new club-state entered the top four.
