LIVERPOOL: What’s going on ?

2-2 against Fulham and 1-1 against Crystal Palace, these are the points the Reds got in three league games, not something to be proud of when last season Liverpool had fought for the title until the last day. The other side of the Channel is starting to worry, and rightly so, because in reality, the team is not the same anymore. In fact, Liverpool has suffered its biggest loss since the retirement of Steven Gerrard: Sadio Mané. The Senegalese left a big gap behind him and especially an attack that seemed to be the strong point with the arrival of Darwin Nunez. Unfortunately, after a first game flamboyant, the second is less so, Nunez stood out with a header and a red card that deprived him of the clash against United. Then, the weak link of this beginning of season, it is the defense, Konaté injured, and a central hinge in difficulty, a man is pointed out: Virgil Van Djyk

Van Djyk, guilty or not guilty?

Faulty on the goal of Sancho, guilty for a penalty whistled, the Dutchman aspires the least confidence in this team that knows the worst beginning of the season under the Klopp era. The defensive pillar for a few years raises questions, does he deserve to be a starter? The answer is obvious, Klopp can not put a defender of this talent on the bench, but technical adjustments will have to be made, including less and less pressing by Van Djyk. Indeed, the vice-captain almost never takes a duel, that is how he never gets dribbled. Van Djyk does not take any risk in order to keep his conceded dribble statistic inviolate. Except that the player of the Reds is less and less unanimous with his teammates as James Milner who expressed his feelings after the debacle of the Dutchman on the goal of Sancho.

A draw for the Champions League that does not help

Last Thursday, the cutter fell for the Reds: it will be Ajax, Napoli and Rangers for a group that smells good 80s. This news reassures even less Liverpool that in view of the beginning of the season, will have to raise the level of play to see the last 16 or even the third place reversed in Europa League. The next opponent for the Reds is a mid-table club, Bournemouth, the jump is mandatory not to start doubting Jurgen Klopp and to foresee his dismissal.

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