Liverpool’s dreams of a triple historical collapsed in the most unexpected way Sunday afternoon, while the Arne Slot team crashed out of the FA Cup In the hands of Plymouth Argyle.
The team supporting the bottom of the championship table was more than deserved winners at Home Park, with the decisive blow by the coldly taken from Ryan Hardie’s penalty after Harvey Elliott was penalized for failing his arms in the air.
Hardie could have doubled the advance, but rather struck the post of Caoimhin Kelleher, and strangely, there was no real seat of Plymouth’s goal at any stadium as a very changed premier leaders, Who have not even taken Virgil van Dijk, Mohamed Salah, Cody Gakpo, Cody Gakpo, Cody Gakpo, Cody Gakpo, Cody Gakpo, Alexis Mac Allister and a crowd of other eminent players in the Southwest, created almost nothing .
It was a very flat and lethargic display of LiverpoolWho looked devoid of ideas against a team that contributed for each ball and implemented the definition of the dictionary to “operate their socks”.
The Liverpool season will not be defined by this defeat, far from it, but three players should certainly be afraid to remember how bad they were here before an expected upheaval of staff in summer.
When you are looking to establish in a new environment, you must seize all the opportunities offered to you. But for Federico Chiesa, it was a horror performance that will not do much to improve his chances of winning more minutes under the slit.
The Italian is not the player he was a few years ago, due to a catalog of injury problems, but he did not even look like an international player here and even less who illuminated the Euro 2020 just under four years ago.
Chiesa has not shown no spark, no creativity and no composure, because Liverpool finally brought together the ball into the penalty surface, seeking to break the determination of Plymouth. Luis Diaz was not much better on the opposite flank, but Chiesa really offered nothing.
There have been rumors circulating according to which Diogo Jota will be authorized to leave Liverpool in summer if an appropriate offer is received – if he plays regularly like that, these offers will be quickly accepted.
JOTA has been very good at stretching the defenses for several years, but you think that her injury problems have forced her to adapt his game, instead of being short to receive the ball and rely on his ability in restricted spaces . This burst of rhythm he had no longer seems to be.
Plymouth scored the 28 -year -old extremely good, winning most of the duels in the air, but he did nothing in the ordinary movement. It was laborious, predictable and he gave the ridiculous ball – 11 to be precise.
The completion of 39% does not really cut it at any level of football and will certainly not do for the best team in the country.
Harvey Elliott expressed his desire to stay in Liverpool and start more games in the first team, believing that he has all the tools necessary to contribute to the midfield.
To do this, the 21 -year -old must intervene in cup games and show his skills. Take matches like this through the skin of the neck, knowing that it plays with inexperienced teammates, and prove that there is life outside Mac Allister, Ryan Gravenberch and Co. Passenger mode n is not an option.
Unfortunately, that’s exactly what Elliott was here. A total of expected goals of 0.02 and a total of decisive passes of 0.04 shows how little he did in the last third and he also conceded the penalty altering the game by sticking his hands above his head for unknown reasons.
