One thing we’re missing this season. Fast side switching and creative passes out of nowhere. His defending wasn’t that good yeah, but many times we could surprise our opponent with passing like this. Nowadays everything takes too long, unnecessary extra touches etc.
by Marcelo1995211
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Two of the three goals had a recently ex-Liverpool player involved.
Watching the Madrid Bayern game made me realise how much of our attacking threat we lost when Lucho and Trent left.
Trent passing & Mo pace..all gone
Remember when the prevalent opinion on this sub was let him go, we have Conor Bradley?
Good times.
Salah playing on his stride instead of having play with the ball dead, refreshing.
I know he left us under shit circumstances but I’m shocked to see he’s not looking likely for the WC. I understand wanting more traditional RBs to start, but James/Livramento/Spence with players like Quansah capable of playing back-up – surely there’s room to drop one of the traditional RBs for an X-factor player like Trent?
Trent’s cross for Madrids goal last night was sensational.
Why did the Vila player just risk it and dive in while it went past him?
I remember that pass but never saw this angle. Made me realize the confidence he had to not play it straight to Mo but to curve it just shows how good he is.
We definitely miss his balls from the back. Teams just press us high now. Before they’d be cautious because they knew Trent could pull out these balls if they lost the ball up high.
I want to say he didn’t mean this, but he absolutey did. Midfielder must have been pushing wide off camera so he hit it to curl around him on the inside. By the tine he’d moved across to intercept it had already gone past him. Perfectly weighted with backspin, just perfect.
Filthy pass.
This pass lives rent free in my head. I tell people about it all the time. Never seen anyone else like him.
i wish his loyalty was at a similiar level if not more
Trent is a once in a generation kind of player, whatever may be the case about his defending, any team would enormously miss what he brings. We shouldn’t need a player as rare as that to be dangerous or even competitive though. We have actually made a pretty decent number of chances across the season as a whole, our biggest problem by far is intensity and mentality. I think our confidence crisis has largely to do with our lack of intensity, rather than low intensity resulting from low confidence.
Under Klopp, game after game we would burst a lung to fight like maniacs in every moment and detail of the game. Klopp would scream victorious and punch the air when a player would track back and make a tackle against the odds. The point is, we would constantly get mini wins in a game. It was demanded that we do that. We would outcompete and bully the opposition, and that is the basis imo of the mentality monsters state of mind. You’d always believe you could beat anyone because you’d already be doing it all the time in the small details.
What we do now is limit running, cede territory, and consequently lose far too many game moments. I think this causes an inversion of what we had under Klopp. When you lose so many small situations, belief and confidence will sap from you and grow in kind for the opposition. It would follow that we mentally fold so easily when we lose a goal or come under pressure, because winning is a habit and we don’t form any habit of winning the small moments that add up to the big picture. As soon as the tide turns against us our belief evaporates because our fall back becomes the fear of losing rather than a resolve and confidence to up our own levels. You can’t fall back on something that you don’t do habitually.
Was this the game he did the hand gesture in?
People always using the same clip when praising Trent, how about compilation of all the defensive mistakes he made.
Oof that was a snooker shot