Post Match Bournemouth

[Jack D Rips]

Also wern't we 3 1 up at their place with , what, 10 minutes left?

 

[Hansern]

We were winning that game with 3 minutes to go. At that very moment, we had enjoyed nearly 70% possession and Bournemouth had only had one shot on target.
This is nothing to do with starting our best players. We should have comfortably won if we were more intelligent with the way we managed the game.

For the Bournemouth game, yes. But the rest of the run in ( 7 games) will obviously be more difficult when missing some of our best players.
Every team in the league would be hurt by missing that many key players in first team positions.

But seeing as you're referring to the Bournemouth game alone, then yes I do agree. Our in game management was very poor. I dont agree with people saying that its been like that all season, because Klopp has obviously made changes this season that has benefited us aswell. We've gained 15 points from losing positions this season, thats only bettered by Spurs in the league.

Back to yesterdays game, the Matip sub backfired and turned out to be wrong. Would have liked to see TAA come on instead and that we'd kept our shape as much as possible seeing as we were on top.

With 10-15 minutes to go I'd have brought on Gruijc.. Yes he lacks match fitness but at 6"3 he'd improve us on defensive set pieces and bring fresh legs to the midfield.
Maybe introduced Matip at that point aswell.

Hopefully Klopp and the team will learn from yesterdays result.
Teams scoring with their only shots on target seem to be a recurring theme for us. Yesterday they had 2 shots on target - 2 goals.