Liverpool’s dreams about a historical trem Fa cup in the hands of Plymouth Argyle.
The team that supported the minimum point of the championship table was more than worth the winners of Home Park, with the decisive blow delivered by Ryan Hardie’s cool sentence, after Harvey Elliott was punished to inflate his hands in the air.
Hardie could double the lead, but instead hit the position of Caoimhin Kelleher, and strangely there was no real siege of Plymouth’s goal at any stage as the very changing leaders of the Premier League who did not even take Virgil Van Dijk, Mohamed Salah, Cody Gakpo, Alexis Mac Allister and a number of other prominent players to the southwest, created next to nothing.
Was a very flat, lethargic display from Liverpoolwho looked at sad ideas against a team who fought for each ball and applied the definition of the dictionary of “executing their socks”.
The Liverpool season will not be determined by this defeat, away from it, but three players should definitely be afraid that we remember how bad it was here in front of the expected upheaval of staff in the summer.
When you are looking to create a new environment, you need to take every opportunity it offers. But for Federico Chiesa, this was a horror performance that will do little to improve his chances of gaining more minutes under the reception.
The Italian is not the player who was a few years ago, due to a list of injuries, but he didn’t even look like an international player here, let alone one that lights up the Euro 2020 just four years ago.
Chiesa showed no spark, no creativity and no calm, as Liverpool eventually broke the ball in the penalty area that wanted to break Plymouth’s determination. Luis Diaz was not much better on the opposite side, but Chiesa offered nothing.
There have been rumors circulating that the Diogo Jota will be allowed to leave Liverpool in the summer if a proper offer is received – if it plays like this on a regular basis, these bids will quickly be accepted.
Jota was very good at stretching his defenses for several years, but you feel his injury problems forced him to adapt his game instead of coming short to get the ball and rely on his skill in narrow spaces. This explosion of the rhythm that it had seems to be.
Plymouth marked the 28 -year -old extremely well, winning most of the air duels, but did nothing from the usual movement. Worked, predictable and gave the ball away a ridiculous amount of times – 11 to be accurate.
Completing 39% does not really cut it to any football level and will certainly not do the best team in the country.
Harvey Elliott was very vocal for his desire to stay in Liverpool and start more first -time games, he feels that he has all the tools needed to contribute from the middle section.
To do this, the 21 -year -old has to accelerate the Cup games and show off his abilities. Get matches like this from the neck scruff, knowing that he is playing with some inexperienced teammates, and proves that there is life outside Mac Allister, Ryan Gravenberch and Co. Passenger operation is not an option.
Unfortunately, that’s exactly what Elliott was here. An expected goals corresponding to 0.02 and an expected help of 0.04 shows how little he did in the last third and also acknowledged the penalty that changed the game, sticking his hands over his head for unknown reasons.
