Jesus Christ
not entirely sure why Lovren is getting criticism? Oh yes it's Lovren!
Lovren was crucial. Didn’t let Marega bully him, great selection from Klopp.
Lovren was better than VVD in that game. He covered superbly about 3 times when Porto got behind VVD. That's are best centre back pairing for me.
Job done because of Lovren’s best efforts. He was brilliant!
Lovren played well tonight.
Hmmm...confirmation bias is an odd thing
RIght, OK. So having read these comments, I thought maybe I was being unfair. So I decided to watch again to see if my eyes were deceiving me. So here were my observations upon a second viewing.
16:25 – Lovren drops deep playing Marega onside. Marega flicks ball around him to Soares, passes into the box for a blocked (by VVD) shot on goal.
29:12: Lovren is caught ball watching and well out of position. Ball is played over him, Marega has a shot - Alisson saves 1-1 with his legs.
30:52 – Lovren (and VVD) ball watching – falls loose to Marega in the box for an uncontested shot on goal straight at Alisson.
Lovren “handball” – Not a handball, but poor defending. No idea why he takes his eye off the ball and turns away from it – ball drops onto his shoulder leading to the VAR review.
68:45 - Lovren unable to hold line for offside trap - plays Marega onside - Leading to a Marega shot on goal.
77:50 - Lovren unable to hold line for offside trap - plays Marega onside – leads to a Marega shot one on one off target (Cops a bollocking from VVD for this one)
Now considering we don't really concede many chances a team, Porto had 7 shots on goal. 3 on target, 4 off target. Lovren played a hand in us conceding 5 of those chances. We're just lucky Marega was wasteful last night, despite being in great form in the CL.
I know it was his first game back in months and so some rustiness should be considered, but those saying he had a good game.. yeah I still don't know what game you were watching.