It can be if you don’t have a look at the why of it. I’m not in any way, shape, or form comparing because that would be madness but pretty sure Liverpool’s objectives last year were not to end up in Europa and crash out of cups the way they did...
“A response to a situation or question that is predictable and doesn’t require thought.”
Your response actually frames it as a knee jerk reaction. A less knee jerk reaction would be to say that those mitigating factors did not cover up other...
Is this fixed with better coaching, better players, same players doing it better, or all of the above? Which has the best marginal benefit/cost tradeoff?
For those suggesting it’s a pen, have you seen the angle where it looks like Saka is trying to Valverde Neuer’s knee? That’s the angle that shows how ridiculous his attempt was. He had to go out of his way to make contact because Neuer stopped in...
So why then do you believe that this is what the plan is/or what he instructs these guys to do? You’ve seen how different things are when we have the back 4 that can play on the front foot.
He’s not being asked to do anything crazy. They’re supposed to work together as a 3 but it seems to break down all the time. There were times he was on the same line as Bruno and Mainoo and neither of them dropped to cover the space he had left...