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Liverpool, Wataru upto?
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Not been given the chances really, not on a level playing field either. I posted before in the league he’s played more minutes with 9/10 than he has with 11. Would you consider that being given a fair chance? Unfortunately for him he has 3-4 very good options ahead of him but that’s not to say he’s a poor player.
A real #6 performance. Opposition noted of course.
Loved it when he scored, but honestly, those saying he is shit, how can anyone of us know that with the limited chanced he has been given and in some cases as pointed out by @binomial , in 9 and 10 men Liverpool teams. Hes the captain of Japan, the guy that led gis country to smash up Gundos Germany, and Rodris Spain. There is also I have noticed a aggrrssive character to his play. I want him to start games. 3 games and 1 goal for us aleeady. Let gim play Klopp, give him at leadt a first half in a PL game.
As I mentioned in t'other thread, yes Toulouse aren't a top Ligue 1 team but they attacked us with pace and numbers which is a factor since his first few outings saw him a little slow to react. Not last night! Absolutely on it and DID NOT STOP!
Every pass but two was forward. And his work at :30 is as good as you’d hope from a winger.
I kept waiting for the instinctual sideways or backwards pass and it didn’t happen.
I kept waiting for the instinctual sideways or backwards pass and it didn’t happen.
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/i-know-liverpool-wanted-wataru-27994541
[article]Endo became the first player signed in his 30s since Ragnar Klavan in 2016 when he eventually joined from the Bundesliga side.
Endo, though, insists he is not concerned by those who questioned the deal too much after he scored his first Reds goal in Thursday's 5-1 hammering of Toulouse in the Europa League.
"I understand they say that stuff because I'm 30 years old and I know Liverpool wanted to sign younger players," Endo said. "But that's normal. I didn't care what they said, I just have to do my job.
"And if I play well, it's a good sign. Not only today, my performances are getting better and better and I can see it improving more so I just try to do my job every game."
Endo was one of four new midfielders who joined the club over the summer as the engine room underwent a significant makeover. With Alexis Mac Allister, Ryan Gravenberch and Dominik Szoboszlai also arriving, the Reds shipped out club skipper Jordan Henderson and vice-captain James Milner alongside Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Fabinho and Naby Keita.
Mac Allister has so far been preferred as the most defensive midfielder in Klopp's tactical system in the Premier League with Endo starting just one game to date, away at Newcastle back in late August.
Endo added: "Macca is more offensive but defensively he always tries to do it better. As he keeps playing he gets stronger defensively. I can learn a lot of things from him and I think it's a good balance between me and Macca.
"I think we have very good midfielders, it's not only the four new players, we also have Curtis Jones, Harvey Elliott, so many No.8 players. We also have sixes, Macca and I, Thiago Alcantara is injured but he will come back and Stefan Bajcetic is a No.6. We have very good midfielders.
"Training is totally different between Liverpool and Stuttgart. When I got here I was a bit surprised to train here because they have a lot of quality and it's very intense. But that's what I wanted to have in training.
"I didn't start many games in the Premier League yet so I don't see the difference [much]. But at Newcastle, it was a very tough game and physically, the speed, everything is different between Europe and the league."
Liverpool brought up their goal tally to 33 in just 13 games with Thursday's 5-1 victory with 25 of those shared between Klopp's front five of Mohamed Salah, Darwin Nunez, Diogo Jota, Cody Gakpo and Luis Diaz.
"That's normal for Liverpool!" Endo insisted. "We have very good attackers and everyone works 100% every game whether they start or not. Today, Mo scored from the bench, that's a very important thing. You don't only have the starting XI and everybody is always ready to be playing."[/article]
Impossible to not root for him.
Depends who you’re rooting.
Ange apparently.
Now THIS looks like a proper DM performance - looking pretty similar to Fabinho in many episodes, actually. Reading of the game and positional instincts are all there. The question is, can he do it against better teams? It’s encouraging to see that he seems to get better with time.
Klopp will probably go with Macca at #6 tomorrow, but I hope he starts Endo vs Sheffield.
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It feels like Robbo MKII.
I think we’ll see him more in the second half of the season.
I hope he’s cut as much slack as others.
Lets not get too ahead of ourselves.
If he starts more often, he'll better that 3 "goals scored from outside box" stat from last season
http://sixcrazyminutes.com/threads/liverpool-wataru-upto.197699/page-10#post-2245829
Full article (too long to copy and paste) here in pdf:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/sfndyjeaix8n4krkw2omn/h?rlkey=od70p7x8wxxnt195izmyr3anz&dl=0
[article]“Klopp told me Liverpool were very offensive and that he needed a defensive No 6. Also, that he was watching my games and that he knows me well.”
Endo has started only two Premier League matches but played in all Liverpool’s League Cup and Europa League games, making the most recoveries in the win against LASK on Thursday but also showing an underappreciated trait — the ability to progress his team with his passing. There at the start of moves that led to two goals, it spoke of the player who was fifth in the Bundesliga for chances created in open play last season. A duellist with multiple skills.
Like Fabinho before him, Endo is undergoing a period of being kept in reserve while learning the specialist requirements of a Klopp-ball No 6. Liverpool press higher in midfield than his other teams did, meaning Klopp wants him applying his skills a little further up the pitch.
“When I came here, I had a meeting with Klopp where we sat and watched some of Liverpool’s games and he talked to me about what he wants,” Endo says. “Since then I have been trying to adapt and I’m still adapting every day and every match, but it’s actually getting better.
“Normally I take a little bit lower [deeper] position and try to go to the duel and now I have to be higher [up the pitch] and win the duels in a different position. It’s only five or six metres but it’s very difficult to win the ball higher.
“But it’s very exciting to have this kind of challenge. I am already 30 years old but feel I still have the chance to keep learning. I’m enjoying this style of football.”
He is also loving the practice sessions. “From day one, I’ve thought, ‘This is pretty good!’ Stuttgart also had good players and training was a high standard but since I came here [the leap in level] has been surprising.” And who, in training, is the hardest to win duels against? “Hahaha. Mo [Salah],” Endo says. “He’s not tall but he is very strong and knows how to keep the ball. It is very difficult to get it from him. But everybody is very high quality.”
He wants to be a coach someday and one reason for starting his video platform was to talk tactics for a Japanese audience. “In England and Germany they analyse games on TV. Even after the match, they talk about it for an hour or even more, right? But that is not normal in Japan and I would like to have more analysis, so I am doing it on my channel,” he says.[/article]
http://sixcrazyminutes.com/threads/liverpool-wataru-upto.197699/page-10#post-2245829
Full article (too long to copy and paste) here in pdf:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/sfndyjeaix8n4krkw2omn/h?rlkey=od70p7x8wxxnt195izmyr3anz&dl=0
[article]“Klopp told me Liverpool were very offensive and that he needed a defensive No 6. Also, that he was watching my games and that he knows me well.”
Endo has started only two Premier League matches but played in all Liverpool’s League Cup and Europa League games, making the most recoveries in the win against LASK on Thursday but also showing an underappreciated trait — the ability to progress his team with his passing. There at the start of moves that led to two goals, it spoke of the player who was fifth in the Bundesliga for chances created in open play last season. A duellist with multiple skills.
Like Fabinho before him, Endo is undergoing a period of being kept in reserve while learning the specialist requirements of a Klopp-ball No 6. Liverpool press higher in midfield than his other teams did, meaning Klopp wants him applying his skills a little further up the pitch.
“When I came here, I had a meeting with Klopp where we sat and watched some of Liverpool’s games and he talked to me about what he wants,” Endo says. “Since then I have been trying to adapt and I’m still adapting every day and every match, but it’s actually getting better.
“Normally I take a little bit lower [deeper] position and try to go to the duel and now I have to be higher [up the pitch] and win the duels in a different position. It’s only five or six metres but it’s very difficult to win the ball higher.
“But it’s very exciting to have this kind of challenge. I am already 30 years old but feel I still have the chance to keep learning. I’m enjoying this style of football.”
He is also loving the practice sessions. “From day one, I’ve thought, ‘This is pretty good!’ Stuttgart also had good players and training was a high standard but since I came here [the leap in level] has been surprising.” And who, in training, is the hardest to win duels against? “Hahaha. Mo [Salah],” Endo says. “He’s not tall but he is very strong and knows how to keep the ball. It is very difficult to get it from him. But everybody is very high quality.”
He wants to be a coach someday and one reason for starting his video platform was to talk tactics for a Japanese audience. “In England and Germany they analyse games on TV. Even after the match, they talk about it for an hour or even more, right? But that is not normal in Japan and I would like to have more analysis, so I am doing it on my channel,” he says.[/article]
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He just needs to be starting more games, that much is obvious.
He came in for Brentford when Mac was suspended and played more than fine.
He can pass very well, clearly he can shoot pretty well, his engine and work rate is very good, never shies away from a challenge.
Made up for the lad, superb goal. Time to give him more starts.
He came in for Brentford when Mac was suspended and played more than fine.
He can pass very well, clearly he can shoot pretty well, his engine and work rate is very good, never shies away from a challenge.
Made up for the lad, superb goal. Time to give him more starts.
He's a good wee player, he's the player Joe Allen should've been. You don't produce stats like he did in the Bundesliga if you're not a good player.
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