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Our build up is too slow and by the time our front three receive the ball they are surrounded and have no space at all. We need to up the tempo and as Souey says, start producing combinations in the middle of the park.

Indeed, this is the big difference with last season, can't understand why it changed so much. Cannot be because we don't have Coutinho.

Teams are wary of coming forward for fear of being caught on the break. Might have been a different story if two recent occasions when we broke forward had resulted in red cards for Kompany and Maguire. Fine margins again. I think another day you get the luck. We need to play with a bit more width and it always looks more pedestrian with Henderson in the team. A lot is down to team selection which Klopp has got right far more often than not this season.

I think Klopp wanted us more secure defensively, so the MF are not all bombing forward at the same time to support the attacks/breaks, which is a big reason we have conceded so few goals, but this also impacts the attack.

While I think tactics and selection had an impact, I'd suggest the performance had more to do with individual performance levels. Key members simply didn't show. Salah was invisible, and the odd time he manifested in the flesh he looked and acted like a member of the walking dead. Shaqueri and Firmino little better, even the great VvD was a shadow of his normal self. Even Alisson was making me nervous. On top of all that Klopp's substitutions were mind boggling in their banality!
I'd suggest that all future breaks away be held in Alaska or Siberia, or alternatively Outer Mongolia might suffice.