KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum Dejan Lovren, were you excited when....

...he was signed?

I thought he'd be excellent for us in defence and he had a cracking season last season. Why is it that he's struggling now....is it the club and pressure, new tactics, new style? Whatever it may be, I don't think a player loses his ability that quickly.

Would Like to know other people's thoughts on the first and second questions.

YNWA

I wouldn't say excited but thought he'd be better, especially after his debut.

It has to be the coaching and defensive system employed that has made him bad though. He's a good player and that don't change over night.

I think he stood out last season because he was getting a good share of goals, not because he was a great defender. Skrtle is seen as our defensive goal threat so now DL is being judged purely on his defensive duties. Of course, it doesn't help that the whole team is rubbish at the moment and our inability to score puts more pressure on our defence.

I was reading on another forum people who had followed Lovrens career saying he has simply returned to form and last season was just an anomaly.

Were you reading the Olympique Lyonnais fans forums????

Our whole defensive line looks so fooking nervous. No one can perform well under these conditions. Just look at Skrtel's face and Toure's body language whenever we're beoing attacked which is becoming so often, even against Leiscter's ten men, or better still look how terrified Migs looks when the ball is on our side of the halfway line.

Simple. Stop passing it back all the [oops] time and just play forward. We might be half way up the pitch and then suddenly we'll just pass it backwards all the way to the keeper. Building from the back only works when you start at the back and move forwards not the other way round ffs.

Crap coaching.

I wud play lovren as a DM...

Get his confidence back and then play him as a CB

How will playing out of position get his confidence up?