Organisation, the fundamental pillar of any decent Premier League team has been worryingly absent from Liverpool FC this season, and this is from a man, Roy Hodgson, whose entire career has been based on a policy of defensive solidity and team shape. Of course, you would expect it to take time for a new manager’s ideas to get into the minds of the players, and start to show improvements in performance over the weeks and months, but this plainly hasn’t happened at Anfield so far this season; in fact displays have been getting worse rather than better.
The fact that Liverpool have conceded ELEVEN goals in their first seven matches of the Premier League season is a pretty shocking statistic, even more so due to the fact that Roy Hodgson focuses so much on the defensive side of the game. In fact, if anything, at this stage of the season we should be complaining of too many 0-0 draws rather 2-1 defeats at home to the hands of newly promoted Blackpool. At least then there would have been a shred of hope that Roy was implementing his plans, and was ensuring a secure backline before moving to look at other areas of the pitch. We have had only two 0-0’s this season, both achieved by luck against Birmingham City and FC Utrecht.
It is the ineptitude more than anything about the defensive display on Sunday that was the biggest worry. Blackpool managed to carve out a number of opportunities during the match, with the Reds seemingly allowing them an age on the ball to pick out passes. It is effectively completely the opposite of Rafa Benitez’s philosophy of getting into the faces of the opponents and winning the ball back to set up counter attacks. Comments on the display against the Tangerine’s on Sunday should be qualified though by the backline that actually played.
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