Written by James Cranford – @jamescranford89
A poor display away to Manchester United has left Liverpool with only two points from three games.
A mounting injury crisis, uncertainty over Naby Keita’s status at the club and a lack of potential transfer activity have left many Kopites frustrated. Debate has raged online (and on Redmen TV’s Debate Show!) as to whether the club is being hamstrung by a lack of transfer spending from FSG, or if the less scattergun approach to signings has contributed to the club’s success.
It seems crazy to write off the Reds’ chances of winning the Premier League after just three games, but such has been the standard of Manchester City in the last five or so years, that any dropped points feel calamitous.
On the latest episode of our Journo Insight Show, goal.com’s Neil Jones gave us his opinion on the Reds’ poor start to the season.
Neil said:
“Let’s be sensible about this. I think Liverpool will be ok. I don’t know whether they will win the league. They didn’t win the league last year when they had the best squad they’ve ever had and they lost two games in the whole of the year
Let’s not forget, I had to remind myself as I was writing a piece: ‘what’s wrong with Liverpool?’ it was the first league defeat since December.
Let’s stop the overreaction a little bit. If they can beat Bournemouth two or three nil at the weekend, all of a sudden the world looks different.
It’s not all doom and gloom at Liverpool, it just feels like that when you lose at Old Trafford.”
Redmen Reacts
The standards Liverpool and Manchester City have set recently have been so high that it is tempting to say that the Reds are already out of the title race.
There are a maximum of 114 points available to any Premier League side across the course of a season. This season, Liverpool have already dropped nearly half the points they dropped across the whole of their title winning campaign in 2019/20.
It is very difficult to keep up these standards in the face of the relentless pace, the ‘City juggernaut’, the fact that these players played every game available to them last season, and the fractured nature of the last three seasons due to COVID.
However! As Neil says, it is not doom and gloom, but Klopp’s side need to start the ball rolling with a routine home victory against Bournemouth. It should not be in the nature of Liverpool’s fans or players to throw in the towel.
Remember Mo Salah’s t-shirt?! Never give up.
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