What’s gone wrong at Liverpool? Form, fitness and bigger problems for Jurgen Klopp
Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
Sky Sports
4.0 • 760 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Sky Sports News’ senior reporter Melissa Reddy and Sky Sports’ senior football journalist Richard Morgan join Peter Smith to assess the wider issues at the club – and the form and fitness worries compounding those problems.
From mis-steps in the transfer window to the team’s tactical evolution under Jurgen Klopp the panel discuss how a team which was going for an unprecedented quadruple earlier this year is now languishing in mid-table a long way off the early pace setters in the Premier League.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Sky Sports Football Podcast brought to you by Bet365, where every now biting nil-nil, every bizarre VAR, every foregone conclusion, bad pass, slam dunk, tap-in, full-start, dead heat, and absolutely expected defeat is amazing. |
| 0:17.3 | From football to tennis and ice hockey to motorsport. Whatever the moment, it's never |
| 0:22.7 | ordinary at Bet 365. |
| 0:34.5 | It was another difficult afternoon for Liverpool in the Premier League on Sunday as |
| 0:39.0 | Juergen Klop's side suffered a second league defeat of the season against Leaders' Arsenal, |
| 0:43.9 | leaving them 10th after eight games. |
| 0:46.5 | They're now massive 14 points behind Arsenal after that 3-2 defeat at the Emirates |
| 0:50.7 | Stadium and now six points off Chelsea in fourth. |
| 0:55.4 | Klop admitted after the defeat at Arsenal that his side have problems and they're not in the title race, while Sky Sports |
| 0:59.8 | Gary Neville said that Liverpool looked lethargic and like a shadow of their former selves in the |
| 1:04.4 | second half. And with Mancissity next up at Anfield, live on Sky Sports on Sunday, he insists |
| 1:10.7 | the Reds fans have every right |
| 1:12.7 | to feel concerned. |
| 1:14.3 | So what is behind Liverpool's poor start here to assess the mounting issues for Yergen Klopp |
| 1:18.9 | are Sky Sports News senior reporter, Melissa Reddy, and Sky Sports Senior Football Journalist, Richard |
| 1:23.9 | Morgan. |
| 1:25.0 | Melissa, this is Liverpool's worst start under Yergan Klopp. It's their worst start in a decade. |
| 1:30.3 | What has happened to the team that was fighting all the way for four different trophies last season? |
| 1:35.0 | I think the starting point is that at the moment, it's a team that is without identity. |
| 1:42.8 | And for so long, it was very concrete as to what Liverpool |
| 1:47.6 | were under Yergenclop and what they did. And now they're evolving. And he had realized that they |
| 1:56.6 | needed to evolve, which I think is correct. But they're struggling with that entire process, |
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