Former England goalkeeper Paul Robinson says Arne Slot despatched out the “mistaken sign” by enjoying a again 5 in Wednesday’s Champions League quarter-final first leg in Paris.
The one different time Liverpool had beforehand fielded a again 5 this season was of their Carabao Cup fourth-round defeat by Crystal Palace in October.
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Of their 2-0 win on Wednesday, PSG had 74% of the ball and 18 photographs to the Reds’ three.
“That was the English champions in opposition to the French Champions and ours weren’t anyplace close to theirs,” Robinson instructed BBC Radio 5 Dwell’s Soccer Every day podcast.
“Liverpool got here to the Parc des Princes not in a great run of kind, with their confidence very very low, as a staff which might be creaking.
“That is the explanation Slot performed a again 5 however as quickly as you play a again 5 it sends the mistaken alerts out. That is not enjoying to Liverpool’s strengths, it is defending their weaknesses and defending in opposition to what attacking issues that the opposition are going to provide you.
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“In [Achraf] Hakimi, [Nuno] Mendes, [Kvicha] Kvaratskhelia, [Desire] Doue, Arne Slot knew the issues his staff would have in vast areas they usually have been so submissive simply by enjoying that formation.
“All through the entire sport you have a look at the possession stats. From a Liverpool standpoint, if they’d completed a smash and seize and received away with a 0-0 or a 1-0 victory or 1-0 defeat it might be ‘OK, they’ve come right here and completed a job’.
“However, there was nothing good about that efficiency from Liverpool. By the best way they’ve set-up after which performed tonight, they’ve despatched out the mistaken sign.”