A year ago
After Mohamed Salah's 'cruel' apology to fans after Liverpool failed to finish in the top 4, Tim Ellis has reflected on his winning mentality.
Mo Salah has earned the right to speak his mind. Around this time last year, some fans may have been hiding behind the couch when the Egyptian was talking about Real Madrid's revenge match in Paris.
It only goes with the territory of the number eleven. He has the right to say things that others don't even dare say. Salah once again spoke in a way that pierced his manager's positivity. While Jurgen Klopp says he is 'totally agree' with the Europa League and they will make it his competition, the Red Devils talisman has just reiterated that it is definitely not his thing . At all.
It highlights the desperation that will hit everyone in the face as the midweek soundtracks of September take place at St James's Park. How does this happen to a team that has reached three of the last five finals? The disgust Salah felt was almost visceral. This Liverpool doesn't make seconds sloppy. Despite the revival-style straight plunge, there's hardly anything tangible to show for it.
In keeping with the pessimistic mood Salah's stinging honesty has created, it will be more of a sleepy Sunday than a 'wonderful' day this weekend as the Reds enter their final day. play nothing but the jersey.
This creates an undesired change. Klopp's Liverpool are still on duty in the final corners.
Typical of this season is the very “meh” feeling about the Stage 38 results.
A trip down to the Southampton league won't have any movie length as the dramas are set in Leeds, Leicester and neighbors Everton once again fighting for their lives.
None of this could have been predicted from afar on that balmy July evening at King Power as Liverpool manned Manchester City's cruise control system.
After Man City's late performance against Aston Villa, and then an extremely difficult evening in Paris on and off the pitch, Klopp's warriors are ready to lift another trophy in earnest. . They're hungrier, faster, stronger and more, with a perfect start for Darwin Nunez. This delicious appetizer is sure to hit the frying pan and sizzling when the real mealtime business kicks off at Craven Cottage.
Then a funny thing happened. Within ten minutes of the Fulham game, Liverpool looked faceless, listless and long-legged.
For most of this season, they've made it for miles, a team still struggling to climb to the top but unable to plant the conquest flag. Summer vacation will be ended with another kind of discontent. 2021/22 is a wild ride of 63 consecutive matches with two endings that suck life out of the story.
While Man City simply used the afterburners to break Arsenal's fragile challenge, Liverpool remained the only club to break through in front of Pep's stormtroopers.
That makes missing out on the top European rankings all the more painful. Liverpool have left it too late to achieve anything other than attending a potential party in Dublin next year. Then again, Klopp says book your hotel in Istanbul…
A trip upstream late to Thursday night is not what this group wants, but they have to accept the change to be able to tolerate it.
On the plus side, it rekindled the flames of those famous Anfield nights as the Germans presided over the magic nights in 2016.
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