His role yesterday in protecting Rhys and Nat, who were both rightly praised for their performances, goes a bit unappreciated. It's unprovable and it's hindsight, but has we played with natural CBs earlier in the season when Hendo got injured, I think we'd have had 4th place wrapped up by now. I'd take Fabinho as a CB with Hendo in front ahead of Rhys-Nat though.
Once again...you don't think, perhaps, that the totally inexperienced 'natural CBs' needed time to be coached and trained and to learn to play together and get up to a point where they could form a partnership together at such a high level, despite minimal experience, and not get totally tonked? And that to achieve this Fab and/or Hendo needed to deputise in defence for a while, whatever the cost to midfield?
Perhaps if we had thrown the 'natural CBs' in together from the start of the injury crisis, we 'd have conceded 4, 5 goals a game, ruined those players totally forever and had even more of a mare of a season than we actually have had.
Perhaps, just perhaps, Klopp knew what he was doing and the RAWK brains trust hadn't, in fact, seen something that he had missed...
The lack of thought evident in this place, in favour of 'shoulda done...' posts is dispiriting