Liverpool lurch from excellent to excrement. What have you got, Jurgen?
Well, at least full highlights weren’t shown on the BBC. After the giddying high of putting seven goals past their biggest rivals without reply a week before, Liverpool returned to the ground with a bump on the Dorset coast on Saturday lunchtime.
Dango Ouattara to drift past him to send over the cross from which Philip Billing scored the only goal of the game before throwing his arms in the air as the ball hit the back of the net in frustration. An understandable reaction in one sense, but hardly the sort of display that a manager will want to see from their captain.
Replacing him will be expensive, certainly if he’s to be replaced by another defender of a similar calibre, and it would be somewhat unfair to leave the impression that this particular defeat rested on his shoulders and his alone, because it was quite clear that this defeat was a collective failure of nerve.
If beating Manchester United had one positive effect on Liverpool beyond the immediate mathematical benefits of such a win, it was to serve as a reminder of what they’re capable of doing to teams. And this narrative back story also explains why losing their very next match to Bournemouth matters. But Saturday lunchtime kick-offs have had a hold over Liverpool for some years. They’d failed to win any of their previous Saturday lunchtime kick-offs this season, and had failed to score in any of them since drawing 2-2 at Fulham on the opening weekend of the season.
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