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Kerkez continues to be under utilised by the team. Against Palace, both Mac Allister and van Dijk ignored him and instead chose to pass inside or to the right flank.

PSG exposed our midfield issues last season, not closing down players quickly allows teams to hurt us especially if they have a player that can pick a pass when given time and space. Something is off with Mac Allister and until he recovers his form we have a hole to fill in midfield which exposes the back line. After a promising start last season, Curtis Jones has reverted to the player he was under Klopp and he's not an adequate replacement option. Endo and Nyoni are the fallback options and there's still no word on Bajcetic's return after his surgery in the summer.

Given the situation. moving Tyler Morton on in the summer was a mistake. He's playing well for Lyon and has become a fan favorite already, the club's media channel has been touting him as the midfielder they have been missing since selling Bruno Guimaraes to Newcastle. He does the dirty work, has prevented at least two goals from being conceded and also pings great forward passes. Lyon have lost one league game, which they had been winning 1-0 until Morton was dismissed in the 75th minute, after which they collapsed and conceded 3 goals. He hasn't registered any assists, but his incisive passes have unlocked the defense for the player that provides the assist. He also scored the winning goal away to Lille last weekend.

Yes. He should be given Gravenberch time to get up to speed.

Worrying that slot said he is not seeing much of a difference in performances this year to last just fine margins, hopefully its just for the press

The big difference between this season and last season is that last season we able to stamp our authority on the game and implement our own game plan. We even switch mid game from a pressing team, to counter attacking team to a possession based team. This season it appears like we have no system.

and some of them should certainly have been put away

He’s the best CAM in the league and he gets so much hate, doesn’t make any sense. Just weird behaviour to criticise him, especially as a liveprool fan.

The only problem with Wirtz, is the noise the media want to create around him. I’ve zero worries about him in the long run! Its not like the Nunez situation from a few years back when you would look at him at times and be trying to figure out why we just spent the guts of 80m on this lad.

When you look at last season, Slot basically had the same 11 week in week out in both the CL and PL. He took a hammering for the lack of rotation at times, but it did provide stability and confidence on the field. This season has almost been the exact opposite, its constant chopping and changing trying to figure out the right fit. We have had so many changes in personal, but we need to start getting something in place. I’d focus on bedding in our new fullbacks, Kerkez seems to be improving, but the constant rotation between Dom, Bradley and Frimpong is not doing any of them any good in the long run. Stick with either Bradley or Frimpong, and give them a run of games.

Then in midfield, it’s a bit of a mess currently, but a lot of this is down to the poor form of Mac and the fact Dom has played everywhere but his preferred role, then trying to shoehorn in a player like Wirtz into what our midfield looked like last is also causing issues. I’d love to see us trying that midfield 4 we used against City and Real (I think) last season, this weekend against Chelsea. Put both Wirtz and Dom together in the No.10’s with Salah and Ekitike ahead.

I think it’s a formation that could work going forward with personal we have. It will allow are 2 forward players move closer to the goal, which should give space for our full backs to finally get down the channels.

Yes, you can see Wirtz has quality. Nunez just didn't have it, sadly. I agree with you, there's been too much chopping and changing. Understandable though, as Slot looks for his best formation/11.

What about a 4-2-3-1?

Frimpong Konate Vvd Kerkez

Grav Macca

Salah Wirtz Szobo

Ekitike/Isak

Possible rotation: Chiesa/Gakpo could come in for Salah or Szobo. It's not perfect but it would get most of our strongest players on the pitch and allow Wirtz to be part of that.

Liverpool will be fine we have too many good players big win against Chelsea this weekend will ignite our season

Fully expect Wirtz and Isaac to come good but have strong reservations about Konate he certainly looks a liability

A draw and a solid performance would be fine. We haven’t won at the Bridge in 5 years. Its never an easy place for us to go, especially now when we have so many bedding in issues with all our new players. And questionable form of some of our experienced.

They've only one CB available I think and Palmer is out as well.

I just want to some cohesion in our play for a full 90 minutes.

Gravenberch looked worse that Wirtz when Klopp had him playing forward. Sometimes a players finds his place, as he has the attributes to do it, regardless of age.