It seems like we get ropadoped every time against these small teams. Rather than being patient, keeping our shape, we start making acts of desperation, opening up too much. Patients and discipline are important parts of mental toughness, I'm sure our guys are putting everything in but when anxiety builds and we lose confidence, things start to fall apart.
There's other stuff we can do in summer but for me, the system isn't broken, it's our mentality. If we play with more discipline, get our confidence back and don't try and force things I think we'll turn it around.
Agree with this entirely. Klopp mentioned after the Burnley game that we lost our patience, didn't take the time to play the extra pass. He said that after analysing it he saw loads of opportunites for clear cut chances, if we'd taken the time to play one more pass etc.
I think we then put this into action, at least up until the turn of the year. It was probably helped by us getting relatively early goals as well, I think in the Hull & Watford batterings we were one or two up by the 30th minute.. But there are other examples where we didn't score early, or conceded first and then showed patience and confidence to keep passing and probing without over committing and leaving ourselves too open - the Swansea turn around and Derby games spring to mind.
I think too much is being made of our full backs. Yes, Clyne could be better going forwards, but his primary job, for me, should be to offer and maintain a high width - stretching the oppo's defence and giving more space for our dangerous players to play.