Slot must chop the talent of Liverpool which is “one of the best”

Liverpool meets Chelsea in Stamford Bridge on Saturday evening, and Arne Slot’s team needs both a victory and a great performance after consecutive defeats.

Concede to a last-minute winner in Selhurst Park gave the Reds a taste of their own medication, ending its flawless start for the Premier League season. Champions have mastered the art of late goals in the first weeks, but these moving moments also overcome a general lack of cohesion and smooth.

This was underlined by a miserable performance in the Champions League on Wednesday, losing 1-0 against Galatasaray.

Until now, one of the most controversial discussion points this season for Merseysiders has been the addition of 116 million pounds Sterling Florian Wirtz, who has arrived as one of the most prodigious creative talents in the world but has fought for the form since his arrival.

Will it be in the starting program in western London?

Why the location should start Wirtz

Wirtz is only 22 years old and clearly undergoes a difficult integration process, having left his German homeland to continue his career in the Premier League. Six deep games, he has not yet scored or assisted, devoid of the quality and confidence that were planned.

But it is there, latent, and there are all the beliefs and expectations of slot and the staff of coaches of Liverpool that he will come well. The current problems of Liverpool extend much wider than the bad form of Wirtz, after all, with tactical imbalances seen through the park.

That Liverpool opted to drop Wirtz, bringing Dominik Szoboszlai in his role as a number ten strip, keeping him where he is, or pushing him to the left side to the detriment of Cody Gakpo remains to be seen.

For Wirtz to adjust, Liverpool must recover their old fluidity in possession and when building an attack game.

And there have been a certain number of poor artists in red so far this season, with a colleague beginner Milos Kerkez to rediscover the form with Bournemouth last year which earned a place in the team of the year of the PFA Premier League on the left.

The slot machine must drop Milos Kerkez

When Liverpool signed Kerkez de Bournemouth for 45 million pounds sterling in the summer, they knew they had won a talent, described by an analyst like “one of the best files with the Premier League”.

But we have not yet seen the same player, the 21 -year -old who is struggling to adapt to the tactical vision of Slot in Liverpool. One of the main reasons for this is that it has been kept in a fairly rigid left role. Kerkez prosperous by going forward, taking opponents and stretching and overlapping to add a dimension to the attack.

Given the way Liverpool plays for the moment, and in fact their difficulties in construction, it could be logical that Slot can remember the vice-captain, Andy Robertson, with a starting fold.

Robertson, 31, is not the player he was in the past, but he is always one of the most accomplished and experienced rear in Europe, with a net and intelligent passes game that could restore a semblance of progression to the Liverpool launch game.

While he has only played twice in the league this season, the Scottish skipper has created five major chances, according to Sofascore. In addition, he played confident matches against Atletico Madrid in the Champions League and Southampton in the Carabao Cup.

Kerkez, conversely, flattered to deceive the last time, marked by the Liverpool Echo with a 5/10 match score, noted having failed in his attempts to get things from an offensive point of view. During the 90 minutes of action in Istanbul, Kerkez lost the ball ten times, committed two faults and failed to create a single chance.

This is not all his fault. The boy is young and adapts to a system that fights to purr; The same principle can be attributed to Wirtz. The spotlights have never been brighter.

The data pool is superficial; We are still early in the new campaign. However, there are some concerning emerging trends. Kerkez’s burning speed and the natural creative flair were not well used during these opening weeks. At least, Slot does not promote them how fans could have hoped.

And given the less mobile role he plays, Robertson would perhaps be a good choice against a Chelsea team that create their fair share of chances and are also there for the catch, with a series of absences striking their background line.

Although this may seem likely for Kerkez to come, Liverpool problems are really deeper than an individual player, and that is why the location must come back to type, allowing Robertson to calmly guide his outfit with precise passes and before, always in advance when the need gets up.

According to BBC Sport analyst, Raj Chohan, Liverpool’s tactical adjustments this season, focusing on the central accumulation game, left Kerkez “isolated”. In order to maximize its potential, it must be used in an active and glowing role.

This is a problem at this current moment for the Reds, who are hardly in crisis but who have a number of folds to grow before the season reaches the median section.

Liverpool cannot afford to work and take up against Chelsea. They must get out of the traps, then they must maintain an intense and consistent performance at Stamford Bridge.

Maybe release the proven Robertson would help establish Liverpool tactics in the evening.