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Andrew Beasley's avatar

Fair assessment? Too optimistic? They feel close to playing quite well but close ain't going to cut it in this league.

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Chris's avatar

Fair assessment for me, frustrating is the harshest assessment I’d offer. Signs of improvement as you say & we will get it right

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Evelyn's avatar

Virgil mentioned in the post match interview that he’d said it was gonna be a difficult season due to what happened off the pitch. So many people are forgetting some of these players are still trying to cope with the loss of a friend, on top of all the changes. But I trust the team and I trust Slot to turn it around. I will now proceed to unfollow most of the LFC fan accounts on instagram, some comments are infuriatingly toxic.

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Andrew Beasley's avatar

I haven’t seen the post match stuff, thanks for mentioning that. I don’t like to put a reference to Diogo in everything but what happened remains inescapable, so maybe I should. So many people look at Konaté’s performance and say he’s distracted by Madrid; maybe he’s distracted by the loss of a teammate and friend. Salah hasn’t been great; Salah cried on the pitch after the first game. And let’s be honest - some of Slot’s decisions seem odd but he’s grieving too.

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Chris's avatar

Couldn’t agree more Evelyn, some of the nonsense posted regarding Arne & the team is staggering. Well said

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Pareet's avatar

I haven't seen the game, but based in the stats it looks like a good performance away at a ground where we struggle to get wins.

So many things in the mixing pot adding context so to be just a point behind Arsenal after 7 tough games is pretty good.

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Slot has to do something about the press. Having all four of Wirtz, Salah, Ekitike and Gakpo on the pitch at once right now is like asking the opponents how much time on the ball they’d like and then giving them double.

Thought it was quite noticeable how difficult Chelsea found it to build from the back in the first half. It got easier for them when Wirtz came on, and then easier again with Ekitike replacing Isak.

Is it just a personnel thing, or can Wirtz and Ekitike improve on what they offer out of possession? If Slot can’t fix the press, we’re just going to keep conceding easy goals.

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Andrew Beasley's avatar

I’m confident Wirtz will be okay as he pressed so intensely for Leverkusen:

https://open.substack.com/pub/andrewbeasley/p/florian-wirtzs-pressing-is-elite-it-will-need-to-improve-at-liverpool

Ekitike is an interesting one - I saw StatsBomb data that said he didn’t press much at Frankfurt then an Opta article that said he did!

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