I don’t think any of us seen this coming. The team was much stronger than expected and the scoreline was way more emphatic too. I thought we’d see a much changed team and I didn’t particularly care about the result, because if it had gone wrong we still had next week’s second leg to turn things around.
Instead we got pretty much the strongest line up Klopp could have picked, with the one exception of Quansah starting ahead of Van Dijk. The logical assumption there was that we’d see a repeat of last week in the FA Cup, with Konate and Virgil doing a half each. For whatever reason Klopp didn’t do that and now we need to wait until Sunday to see just how fucked up a decision that was. If Ibou doesn’t make that game then it’s all on Jurgen’s shoulders. It isn’t being wise after the event either. He doesn’t play twice a week, we know this. He needs protecting, which we saw last week against Southampton. Why the fuck would you take that risk with City coming to town three days later? Just so reckless.
Look, if Konate had been hurt by a tackle or picked up a head injury, that would be different. You can’t legislate for that and you can’t pick your team worrying about things like that. Muscle injuries are different. We all know about Konate’s hamstrings, so seeing him go off a minute after the break because he felt something was infuriating. It’s the one negative on an otherwise perfect night for us.
The performance was ok but it probably didn’t warrant the result we got. The scoreline flattered us because they caused us a lot of problems and we needed Kelleher performing heroics, especially in the first half. They were getting in down our left hand side almost at will, but equally we looked like we could score any time we went forward.
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