Former Liverpool midfielder Jan Molby feels that teams are beginning to set up defensively against the Reds this season as they are becoming fearful of Jurgen Klopp’s side potent attacking threat.
Writing in his column for the Liverpool Echo, Molby feels David Moyes won’t want to be on the end of hiding when his Sunderland side come to Anfield tomorrow, and he will set up his team in a similar fashion to Claude Puel’s Southampton last week. The Dane believes fear is now guiding the tactics of Liverpool’s opponents this season:
“Teams are becoming fearful of Liverpool. Proof of that came at Southampton last weekend, when the Saints were set up to simply stop the Reds, even though they were playing at home. They didn’t want to get battered. Because, believe me, that’s something of which this Liverpool side is very, very capable. Just ask Leicester City, Hull City or Watford.”
Molby feels however that the Black Cats won’t have the same discipline that the Saints had last week at St Mary’s:
“Sunderland are up next on Saturday, and I don’t believe they have the same organisation as Southampton, they haven’t been as well drilled over the last few years.”
The 0-0 draw against Southampton was only the third time that the Reds have been shut out in front of goal this season, and with players now fresh after a week’s break from competitive action, the Anfield crowd will expect some goals tomorrow.
