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Message: [QUOTE="The True King, post: 3549533, member: 9651"] This is a bit reactionary, it's one game. Fair enough he's had a patchy pre-season too but TAA is generally a slow starter. The inverted role suits him, we saw just how effective he was to end last season when LFC went 11 games unbeaten and he was on fire. He was very impressive. He can do it better than Zinchenko and Stones, who are the best two versions of the system Klopp is trying to mimic. I agree that it's a huge risk playing him the way he is playing, especially right now, but its about maximizing his strengths. I think fundamentally there are two issues with it. 1. Personnel - Robbo isn't suited to slotting into a back 3 and has a tendency to bomb forward. It's clearly an instruction he's being given because Klopp hasn't tried to stop it. There is no one in the LFC squad that can play LB/CB which is why they were so keen on Colwill. That would have been the solve that could have replicated what City do with Ake and Arsenal do with White. Robbo's days are numbered if LFC want to persevere with this system and that's not indictment on his quality. 2. Konate - the kid is a beast and one of a kind but he's injury prone and still makes errors. None of the back up CBs have his speed or power or can adequately cover him in that hybrid CB/RB role. Matip in pre-season showed just how rubbish the alternatives are. Konate is having to drift into wide right spaces to cover TAA (who's being instructed to get forward into midfield) and when there is no effective defensive mid, it exposes the gap between he and VVD. Saw with a few of the chances Chelsea had yesterday that LFC have no one in midfield who's willing to track runners from deep. I think there's a few solutions. The two most likely are either buying a LB/CB hybrid type player who can make it a proper back 3 when TAA pushes forward; or committing TAA to midfield and buying a proper RB (or playing Gomez there to allow Robbo to bomb forward). I think Liverpool have shown they are exploring both, the links to Pavard and Chilwell earlier in the window suggest so anyway. Either way they need to sort out the defensive mid first then buy the defensive option but Klopp has chosen to die on this hill of TAA being inverted. [/QUOTE]

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