Not true, in the second half his quick penetrative passes we're exactly what we needed reminiscent of Gerrard who used to do that all the time, step up the speed up out of nowhere with quick one twos and interplay, the most dangerous we looked was actually down to these moments, and he also did the Gerrard esque ball to Ox which was our best chance and should have been a goal.
It's like everyone he doesn't score or assist or we win people say he has a bad performance, he didn't he was one of our best players and the best player on the pitch in the 2nd half, you're probably thinking about the couple times he lost the ball on the dribble and using that to paint a picture of a bad game when it isn't true.
If everyone else had a bad game like that where they still create a couple chances we would have won.
I’m pretty sure we watched the same game, and the passes you talked about, what came of them? Do you remember how many of those passes came to something useful? How many actual chances did we create in this game, and how many actually became shots on target?
The thing you mention about Gerrard, his “Hollywood” passes, I seem to remember that was one of his redeeming features, and yet was also one of his shortcomings. He was capable of the spectacular, but he was also culpable of being wasteful sometimes simply because he was at times over reliant on being spectacular. The need to make something happen often brought about a wastefulness which translated into lost attacks and blunted momentum on occasions.
I would put what Coutinho did last night into that category of wastefulness. He seemed to put an overriding emphasis that he alone had to be the game changer. His second half display, by and large, felt just as wasteful as the first, with added desperation to it. You could say he was trying, sure, but it isn’t that much different to how he kept trying to shoot from distance, and ended up wasting possession and creating an air of malaise which took over the atmosphere in the stadium.
I don’t remember him playing a single one-two passing combination all night either. He might have tried to force something, but I don’t remember us having any penetration besides the diagonal to Firmino, until Klopp made the change.
