Cody Gakpo

[Kev0909]

At least the squad depth is better with gakpoo, but maybe origi was better and made more of a difference, I can't remember origi coming on and indirectly costing us games.

Attack is nothing compared to firmino MANE AND SALAH

Big difference mane in his prime, twice the player diaz is, robertson was better then too, because mane helped him alot also.

[Nineteenx]

Anyway no point going on about it I warned about this happening 3 seasons ago, the issue with that situation wasn’t Gakpo it was a collectively issue of our players having become increasingly shitter on the counter, players not making great runs, going too early, not playing the right ball, I called it all happening

I thought Nunez should have just held his position

We had a few fails on not doing the basics of playing the percentages throughout that game too, when players had to go across the keeper because we had 2 players there to pounce on anything if the keeper saved it

It pisses me off every game were so fucking shite at playing the percentages it should be coached to kids from a very young age so thry grow up making the right decisions in those situations it is the most basic of things that every professional footballer should understand

You don’t have a great or the best of angles for your shot or to find a team mate in the box, but there are 2 around the far post who are infinitely more likely to score (as McTominay did) by you firing your shot on target across the keeper forcing him to parry

It’s that simple and we have consistently failed at that under Jurgen

[Steveo]

Hang on though let;'s be fair.

We are only just emerging. from an injury crisis. We were in all 4 comps until last night. Never got close to that in 2019 or 2020. New midfield. We have hardly done badly.

The fact is there is another team now at the level of us and City that makes things tougher. We are transitioning the squad as players age. Not doing too badly.

The romance of number 6 and number 19 is clouding people a little. For almost 18 months we barely suffered any key injuries too. Ultimately it still manifested in the 1 major title over each season. This is a second attempt at a quad.

I admit that going for 4 is probably daft though - nobody has done it for a reason. It's just too many games. Possibly with any squad but certainly with one built on an FSG budget.

[Nineteenx]

At least the squad depth is better with gakpoo, but maybe origi was better and made more of a difference, I can't remember origi coming on and indirectly costing us games.

Attack is nothing compared to firmino MANE AND SALAH

Big difference mane in his prime, twice the player diaz is, robertson was better then too, because mane helped him alot also.

Original was shit and did nothing most of the time, at least when we still had obvious triggers to follow last season Gakpo did it really well

When we had really obvious triggers for movement for certain types of run, the trademark Mane outside in run whenever the ball went to Trent Mo or Hendo on our right Origi never even grasped that

It kind of leads on to my point re the Diaz Gakpo & others discussion, because Diaz like Gakpo immediately slotted into the movement & triggers if how we used to play too, when he first arrived he played LFWD on the shoulder with the runs in behind and all Mane’s trademark runs & movement really well, because there were triggers & structure for him to apply his abilities into

That’s the danger of overplaying, you lose the structure of players making simple routine almost like set plays in open plays in which every player is really decisive because they know what’s coming and what works and exactly what to do -

[CCTV]

We lost because Nunez & Elliott both gave the ball away really fucking stupidly in ridiculous situations

Gakpo was no doubt asked to drop in to try and link so someone, probably Darwin was supposed to be staying up so there was someone to link with

From the amount of times we’ve fucked up counters exactly like that one since the overplaying started in 21-22 it’s looking like an agenda trying to blame Gakpo for one, Diaz & Darwin fuck them up constantly going too early, Darwin went too early on that one too leaving Gakpo having to change his intended pass at the very last and let’s be honest, had he played the perfect ball for Elliott he wouldn’t have scored, he only scores via deflections or a team having to change keepers

Even though he got his fluky deflected goal Elliott was shit when he came on it was a noticeable huge drop in intensity & quality when he replaced Szobo

Núñez was dispossessed just outside their box, they went the length of the field and scored.

We were 3-2 up with 15 to play. Couldn't see it out, not sure how that's Núñez's fault.

Rashford could have had a hattrick on the day, constantly found in good goalscoring situations.
We've seen this before.

[teesred]

Danns has had an injury & is only just back

He was on the bench yesterday. No reason why he couldn't have got some time.

[justincredible]

Cody Gak-poo....
47 game, 12 goals. Nowhere near good enough for LFC...

Vaarwel mijn vriend...

[teesred]

Cody Gak-poo....
47 game, 12 goals. Nowhere near good enough for LFC...

Vaarwel mijn vriend...

How many league goals does he have since he arrived?

[Kev0909]

He scored against the mighty luton and brentford at least..... 5 goals this season

it wouldn't be too bad if he actually could link up play well he can't even do that, he cost us v Utd sadly. he seems to score when we score 4 (3 goals from that) spurs and wolves he scored which was only 3-1 win and 2-1 loss

Compared to dutch league his assists are shocking in the EPL.... sometimes players just aren't made for this league.

[Nineteenx]

He scored against the mighty luton and brentford at least..... 5 goals this season

it wouldn't be too bad if he actually could link up play well he can't even do that, he cost us v Utd sadly. he seems to score when we score 4 (3 goals from that) spurs and wolves he scored which was only 3-1 win and 2-1 loss

Compared to dutch league his assists are shocking in the EPL.... sometimes players just aren't made for this league.

Diaz the same for me only seems to score when it doesn’t really count doesn’t do anything particularly well right now, doesn’t threaten nearly enough, Diaz actually gets in our other players way quite often too