Saturday’s win at Crystal Palace was a big three points, even if we didn’t play well.
As much as I was pleased with the result, it is hard to not be concerned by Liverpool’s away form at present. Aside from the games at Newcastle and Tottenham earlier this season, we have not been at the races away from Anfield. You can’t keep going away from home and not playing well because you will eventually slip up.
By contrast, we are brilliant at Anfield and have won all our games. Hopefully that will continue, but we need to improve when we’re not on home soil. It is a bit of a worry because when we play the so-called lesser sides, everyone uses the same tactics that we struggle to deal with. We have to find a way to counteract that.
It was great to see Mohamed Salah score his 200th goal for the club at the weekend, although this was from a vintage display from the Egyptian. Our forwards were not great against Sheffield United and it was the same on Saturday at Palace - they went missing.
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The attacking players have been great for us all season because they’ve been scoring goals left, right and centre, but it took a deflection to put us ahead at Selhurst Park and a goal from midfield to win the game.
Darwin Nunez has now gone eight games without a goal for Liverpool and the one thing that concerns me is he didn’t really get any chances in the final third versus Palace. He should have scored at Sheffield United, but at least he was getting into the right positions. When you’re not in the right place as a forward, that’s when there is a problem. If you’re getting the
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