Let's do the midfield then because again I've mentioned already a reference the loss of

Flavian Verton the massive knock-on impact that had especially again the nature of it in the

time and of being so close to kickoff I think you can discount Dom's the Boslid because

hey he's playing as a right back more often or not and indeed Flavian Verden is why the conversation

because you know based on form alone when they're fitting available they're in Liverpool's best 11. But yesterday, John, we've mentioned it a couple of times loosely already as the show's gone on. Like the midfield got hunted down, it got bullied. It was second best to most things. There's a quality conversation in terms of what they did when they got the ball. I want to on to that as we go along but for me the fundamentals of it were are you going to volume your sleeves up and

put in a shift and put in a fight but the combination of ibrahim sangare and elli

anderson is a very good combination very good Premier League double pivot duo but it's not world

class and they ran all over our midfield yesterday.

That to me, and again we've mentioned the ease of which they were able to get in behind and get at our back four,

that to me is one of my biggest concerns to come out of that match actually.

Yeah, I mean, a lot's been made in McAllister, his form has been off the cliff for a year, really, now.

But Gravenberg is, you know, it's now coming home to Ruth, the fact that we've never bought a defensive midfair player.

There's no steel in our midfield at all.

Gravenberg is a lovely ball playing.

Football is great to watch,

though at the moment he looks like he's walking in treacle.

He doesn't look at it at all.

He looks lacking in energy.

You know, he just isn't the guy he was a year ago.

And that's not surprising, given how much football he's played,

because there's no one replacing

him he's never getting a rest but he did have a rest last time out but you know uh or recently

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