Liverpool’s dreams of a historical height crumbles on Sunday afternoon in the most unexpected way when Arne Slots team fell out of the FA Cup through Plymouth Argyle.
The team that supported the reason for the championship table was more than deserved in the Home Park.
Hardie could have doubled the lead, but instead make Caoimhin Kelleher’s post, and there was no real siege of Plymouth’s goal at all times as the much -changed leaders of the Premier League, who not even take Virgil van Dijk, Mohamed Salah, Cody Gakpo, Alexis Mac Allister and a variety of other prominent players to the southwest, created almost nothing.
It was a very flat, sluggish representation of LiverpoolWho looked against a team without ideas that fought for every ball and implemented the definition of the dictionary of “execution of their socks”.
The Liverpool season is not defined by this defeat, far from it, but three players should certainly be afraid to remember how bad they were here in the summer before the staff was expected.
If you want to set up in a new environment, you need to take any opportunity to offer you. But for Federico Chiesa, this was a horror show performance that will contribute little to make its chances of earning more minutes under slot.
The Italian is not the player he was a few years ago because there was a catalog of injury problems, but he didn’t even look like an international player here, let alone a euro 2020 almost four years ago.
Chiesa showed no sparks, no creativity and no serenity when Liverpool finally entered the penalty area that wanted to break the determination of Plymouth. Luis Diaz was not much better on the cross opposite, but Chiesa really didn’t offer anything.
There have been rumors that Diogo Jota Liverpool can leave in summer if a suitable offer is received – if it plays regularly like this, these commandments will be accepted quickly.
Jota has been very good for stretching the defense for several years, but they feel that his injury problems have forced him to adapt his game, instead maintain the ball and rely on his skills in tight spaces. The pace he had no longer seems to be.
Plymouth marked the 28-year-old very well and won most duels in the air, but he did nothing outside of the ordinary movement. It was tedious, predictable and he gave the ball away a ridiculous amount of time – 11 to be precise.
39% passion has not really reduced it at a football level and will certainly not do it for the country’s best team.
Harvey Elliott was very loud about his desire to stay in Liverpool and start further games of the first team, and had the feeling that he had all the tools that are necessary to make a contribution from the midfield.
To do this, the 21-year-old has to get into cup games and show his skills. Take such games with the hostility to the neck because he knows that he plays with some inexperienced teammates and prove to the slot that there is a life outside of Mac Allister, Ryan Gravenberch and Co. The passenger mode is not an option.
Unfortunately that was exactly what Elliott was here. An expected goals of 0.02 and an expected count of 0.04 show how little he did in the last third, and he also received the punishment of the game -changing punishment by putting his hands over his head for unknown reasons.
