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Julien Laurent

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
886 total appearances

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Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

They were far too predictable too, far too rigid.

ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

There was far more fluidity in the second half.

ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

Although for Palmer, this is not good because to put him wide on the right doesn't suit him.

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Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

He clearly doesn't like it there.

ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

The ball never comes to him.

ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

There's something to fix there.

ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

But for the rest, there was far more fluidity in that first half where they were far too predictable.

ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

It's interesting, isn't it?

ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

Because there's the defeat, obviously, last week in the derby against Augsburg, where they were very good in the second half.

ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

And then, as we said, I think we were together with Stevie on the show last week as well, on Saturday.

ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

And we said they just stopped playing.

ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

They took it for granted that they were going to win that derby and that game.

ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

And Augsburg came back in the second half and took the chances well and put a lot of intensity.

ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

And I thought this afternoon was...

ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

The same Hamburg were really intense and went for it, and Bayern were far too open defensively, far too exposed, almost like if they thought, we don't really need to defend, it's only Hamburg, even away from home, they're not that good, and they're not that good, Hamburg.

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Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

We know that they're going to fight not to go down, back down after just coming up last summer.

ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

And I think they took it for granted after the Luis Diaz goal and it's just not good enough.

ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

Again, Pavlovic, Kimmich in that midfield were at times overrun.

ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

Neuer came back and had to make a couple of really good saves as well to not concede more.

ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

When we saw earlier the stats and the expected goals, it's 2.3 expected goals against Bayern Munich.