re: tOfficial Liverpool 2017/2018 Thread: “Upgrades Incoming Edition: A Great Season!”

<---- sporting this shirt today

Mo + Stone Roses =

#KloppHugs in full effect today... Just a comprehensive win today

I'm 56 years old.....to old to wear a Salah jersey?

One of the things that impresses me most about Liverpool and Klopp's attackers is that they will not fall at the touch of a defenders breath on their neck in the box, they will power through and attempt the shot on goal.

And, unfortunately, I think Liverpool F.C. as a whole gets PUNISHED in the Premiere League for that effort rather than rewarded.

But the reward comes when this happens:

https://streamable.com/fiofv

How many attackers, not just in the PL (I'm looking at you, Tottenham) but in world football as a whole, would have just decided to fall when the pulling and grabbing and, finally, leg-kicking occurred in the box? Now, to be accurate, Mo *did* all at that final leg-kick, but that was only because he was legit tripped. And, while falling, still put the shot on (and in) goal.

Bobby and Mo and (to a little lesser extent) Sadio are all powerful and compact players with low centers of gravity, so they don't go down easy (I've seen Sadio go down a little easy a couple of times but, in general, he does his utmost to stay upright and attack though).

I think diving is cheating. I think falling at any form of legit touch in the box is cheating. I admire how our attackers play the game in this (and other) regard and I think its a form of Klopp's respect for the game itself that he coaches this. You just DON'T see Klopps attackers go down easily or intentionally.

(P.S. As a speculative aside, its obvious that Salah is a *very* devout Muslim. I wonder if that might have something to do with it for him, i.e. diving is cheating and cheating is wrong and "lying"?)

One thing I feel like getting lost in Salah’s performance yesterday is how good Mané played. Seems like he is finally understanding how he needs to play on the left side and almost imitating Coutinho at times.

He was dropping deeper and inside a lot more than usual and actually finding space more than usual. He still made some good diagonal runs in behind at times, but he was much more creative and contributed to the build up yesterday and it even helped open space for Robertson’s overlapping run (see the second goal).

Obviously Salah and Firmino’s movement upfront is first class but Sadio has always looked to me like he was just trying to figure out how to play from the left and how to fit in with the other two, but yesterday he was on point pretty much all game.

Keita with a goal and assist against Bayern

Played more advanced today as a true 10 and looked really good, especially on the counter

He said those very words a few days ago. Feels like Klopp has changed something within him and he wants to win a title here

Seems to me that Mo plays pretty good in the snow.

The difference to me is, Mo joined us while we are in the UCL.. and as long as we are in the competition and competing for the EPL, we stand a better chance of keeping him..

Luis never played UCL with us and the one season Cou did (prior to this year), we flamed out horribly..

Anyway, I don't think he goes this summer and right now, RM is the only threat..

Barca has too much money tied up in their forwards as is, and if the Griezmann rumors are true...

PSG are really the only other team that could buy him and they are also maxed out against FFP..

Still excited for this season, already excited for next season.

The Perfect Klopp Midfielder (LINK)