Dejan Lovren

[cloggypop]

"Dejan is out. He will be back before my contract ends." 

[joe_fishfish]

That's the thing about the "if he keeps playing like this he'll stay in" argument. He won't, because he'll get injured again. He's obviously improved shitloads since Klopp first arrived but you still couldn't trust him to slot in as Van Dijk's replacement if Van Dijk ever needed a rest, because he'd either be injured or turn into a headless chicken again.

[Curly]

He’s defo been better, but he still commits the same mistake of breaking the line unnecessarily, not winning the challenge and then leaving a gap behind him. It’s infuriating.

[Lee909]

There's a big part of me that says sell Lovren and Matip, you'll get 30-40ml and she'll out 80ml on that big bastard Koulibaly. Not going to happen but

[Grinch]

23 minutes ago, belarus said:

He’s defo been better, but he still commits the same mistake of breaking the line unnecessarily, not winning the challenge and then leaving a gap behind him. It’s infuriating.

 

Not half as bad as him retreating into his shell, dragging the defence deeper and deeper. 

[Joey8FrogsLegs]

15 hours ago, Grinch said:

 

Not half as bad as him retreating into his shell, dragging the defence deeper and deeper. 

This is a major problem. When balls are played up to the opposition striker on the deck, Lovren very often seems to back off, allowing them time and space to turn and have a go. 

[Grinch]

46 minutes ago, Joey8FrogsLegs said:

This is a major problem. When balls are played up to the opposition striker on the deck, Lovren very often seems to back off, allowing them time and space to turn and have a go. 

Yup, no idea where this notion of him being front footed comes from.   He's no pace and shits himself to stay high up the pitch. 

 

Our defence will improve will Gomez in there. 

[Captain]

I doubt he’ll keep his place once Matip is match fit again as Matip is simply a superior player.

[magicrat]

45 minutes ago, Grinch said:

Yup, no idea where this notion of him being front footed comes from.   He's no pace and shits himself to stay high up the pitch. 

 

Our defence will improve will Gomez in there. 

It will if Gomez is back to his best but Lovren has rightly been in the team following Matip's injury and to be fair he has performed well on balance. My real nightmare is an injury to Virg as that would spell massive problems. 

[El Rojo]

Just hit the eatside of the LFC
On a mission trying to find Mr. Lovren D
Seen a car full of skirts ain't no need to tweak
All you skirts know what's up with 213

[Oh Buoy]

[Red Phoenix]

Klopp : "I think I might start you for the game today, I'm sure you'll be fine."

 

Lovren : "Fuck around and find out."

[an tha]

He is a relic from a time when we were ordinary...like Mignolet and Moreno he needs jibbing.

 

He is simply nowhere near good enough for where we are and aspire to be now 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Looked very much like a fourth choice CB today.  He stunk, but if any of the rest of the team were anywhere near their usual standard, it wouldn't have cost us.

 

[dockers_strike]

13 minutes ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

Looked very much like a fourth choice CB today.  He stunk, but if any of the rest of the team were anywhere near their usual standard, it wouldn't have cost us.

 

Jurgen clearly didnt fancy Matip for this game though.  But yes, you're right, with the exception of Alisson, no one else in the team performed today and I cannot remember the last time I thought that.

[Kevin D]

This guy.

 

This is not my kinda guy.

 

[Numero Veinticinco]

I don’t love him. 

[Mudface]

He was shit in that coconut milk ad too. Matip was far better and if it wasn't for him (and the Coronavirus) I wouldn't have bought 200 tins this morning. Total liability.

[Harry Squatter]

He's not that good and is injured most of the time. Hopefully he goes to Italy and we get around £12-15m. 

[Dr Nowt]

It’s kind of ironic that the build-up to this game was all about how in Klopp’s first outing against them they did us 3-0 and after Deeney monstered him Skrtel was barely seen in a Liverpool shirt again.

 

Perhaps fate was tempted once too often.

[Joey8FrogsLegs]

He’s simply nowhere near the required standard, People said in the match thread before kick off exactly what would happen. They’d target him and we’d struggle. They would’ve done the same to Matip, and he would’ve struggled too, but not to the same extent, and panic wouldn’t have struck. Also Matip is far better when it comes to passing, which is a factor.

 

Probably a decent bloke Lovren, and there is no lack of effort, just a lack of quality.

 

 

[Guest]

I'd like to watch the ball bounce over lovren as deeney cheekily and knowingly giggles and also I'd like to watch lovren try and pass the ball to Trent from 5 yards away only for the ball to trickle over the by line for a Watford throw in.

[Bobby Hundreds]

The whole team was shit but he was an even worse blend. What was with the fucking holding of players! 

[Barrington Womble]

9 hours ago, dockers_strike said:

Jurgen clearly didnt fancy Matip for this game though.  But yes, you're right, with the exception of Alisson, no one else in the team performed today and I cannot remember the last time I thought that.

Klopp has clearly played him to take on deaney and thought he could do it better than matip. Unfortunately once lovren has decided his job is about wrestling, it's game over. We've seen it so many times in time here. Probably since he's been at the club 50% of our worst 10 performances, he's been our worst performer, looked like an amateur and brought the whole teams level down. As someone else said he's a relic from when we were shit and needs binning. Nothing is more true. While he is still at the club, he'll have good games and then he'll throw in days like yesterday. In all my years of watching football I don't think I've ever heard a forward say the type of stuff deaney came out with after the match, I think that says a lot. 

[Captain]

That was probably Lovren’s last game for us.