Three defeats in four games for Jurgen Klopp’s side hint at a vulnerability to be found on the flanks
Enter: the wobble. On a chilly, slightly wild night at Stamford Bridge Chelsea progressed to the quarter-finals of the FA Cup at the expense of the team previously known as Jürgen Klopp’s Irresistible Red Machine.
Sport loves a premature note of crisis. Perhaps one or two will now be offered, although Klopp has probably earned a little breathing space before the cleaver is unsheathed. Liverpool played well in patches and might have wrenched the game their way with better finishing. But there was something else too, a sense of a pattern emerging. Even, whisper it, of some more systemic vulnerability being winkled out.
Written by Barney Ronay at Stamford Bridge
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2020/mar/03/liverpool-enter-wobble-territory-as-chelsea-peak-behind-full-backs under the title “Liverpool enter wobble territory as Chelsea peek behind full-backs”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
