Name: Liverpool have been on the slide since the winter break – Steve Nicol | Premier League
Uploaded: 2020-03-09T16:30:17.000Z
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the potential to be the second invincible sign in the Premier League era is over.

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It is being extraordinary run as an it for Liverpool overall, 44 games unbeaten, you have to go back to January 2019 the last time they suffered a loss in the league.

Three sides in the league of Open struggling nor itch away There were unconvincing.

Then you get the Athletico Madrid game where they were really poor again and you had West harm at home, where they could easily have taken something or won the game easily.

I don't think it's a slight on Liverpool.

I just think that it got became so beg for these players.

Even as much as you tell yourself, Stevie, I don't know what you think, but even as much, you tell yourself, right, let's keep it going.

There's nobody pushing in them in the league and, well, it's not concerned for the Premier League.

That's done, I think, As a concerned for the second game against protocol, Madrid Factor and Jonathan had Henderson.

Israel, I think, is a massive message, a big driving force for them.

But I think subconsciously that is just not be pushing Liverpool.

The results that you mentioned all came after the winter break.

This happened, affected that kind of hope, the momentum, the rhythm.

The going through, I think what they're going through is the mental.

Say that again because the physical savior of the game today is very easy to figure out because of all the factors court shoes and all the all the all the things they put them through.

They know where they are physically, so that to me, that isn't the problem.

Say that again because Liverpool and this run have gotten all the small things right.

And when you get older, small things Ray, it stops all the big things happening.

What's been Hartman and today is a great example.

I was talking about the throwing the Watford had today No every man and his dog involving football, whether it's players of court cheese, when is a throw in common, you know who is going to.

It's dead simple, and it's a small thing.

But if you don't do it, then you see what happens.

You might look at the school and see for now, but they were fortunate.

So this is This is something that clock has to figure out.

How does he get his players back into the mental state, where the flying where the passage, everything's on the ball.

Everybody is moving in sync because right now nothing's in sank and they're making small, small errors all over the place that that are making them not lose that many games.

This is not detainment a year where you want to be doing this, regardless of how good you beat.

If you're not fast about records, gonna sit in here, Stevie, maybe.

And you know, I think he said he won't invincible.

I did yet from me looking in from from just from the over side.

I'm saying I'm really not fussed about records, right?

It's more about trophies on well, should not be want to defeat detainment off.

It may not be a lot, but particularly with this big game coming up coming up against Atletico Madrid again, no walkovers just to go back and say, Listen, guys, we need a little bit of a re, but here we come.

You know, we were unnecessary conveyor belt off momentum for a while, but we're not going to get through the rest of the season.

Every cop Champions League, by playing like this, you know we need to cut is the state, he said.

The arrows, the basics by Kevin Off the getting the basics correct again.

Tell them to go and express the other facets of the game, which would be umbrella, and sometimes it takes up.

Sometimes it takes a kick in the backside of punching and north to go away and say, Listen, forget the headlines.

Forget all the talk about what we've done and greatest teams and possess the greatest team ever in the Premier League, one of the better than my united 90.

Let's go on when trophies and by doing that, we need to reboot.

I was thinking that as well, and then it But then the worrying thing is, if it's a couple of games and it's been like that and then it's a re book, then I think absolutely the warning thing for me is the as you brought up ever since the brake, they've kind of been on the slide and that I'm not sure it's a simple is a re, but I think Cooper has to stick a step.

But I'm all for Do what made you successful.

But there comes a time when if you're in such a slum, I mean, we're talking about five or six games here that you have to maybe change something, whether it's in treatment, whether it's your preparation, whatever it may be, because if you sit back and see well, it'll fix itself, then it may be too late.

Certainly for the Champions League, they won the league.

Yeah, they want to win the Champions League.

They've got chancing the F A Cup midweek, which obviously is gonna be a tough task at Stamford Bridge.

All three is tough on the best of the best.

Good enough, but there's no carrot now at all in the league.

Is that gonna affect them going forward as well, 100% under percent, very difficult to step on the field.

You got a curb behind you when you go away from home to a team farther down the league where you've got nothing, you learn and everything to lose.

It does that think there's that thing mission that little.

For an athletic a game that's always see and field, you're one nil down.

You don't play the level liverpoola plan out unless you unless you can step up when it miles right.

I mean, that's part of the reason why you're here because you have that thing in say, Gee, I don't think that's the problem.

You're definitely the mental sharpness city again, with two teams of Stevie was talking about, You've got Tim and Liverpool, her costed right and you've got a team and walk for those the other relegation teams have played recently and given them a game.

I've been in the same scenario that they are mentally focus because the season running out for them, the games have run.

The note the points are running out on their very existence in the Premier League is a threat.

So even though the quality of well, the quality was good from what for the day.

But the quality of the disparity between the sides is generally quite a law.

What we're seeing is that got been bridged by the fact that Liverpool of things done and dusted primarily pretty much on these other teams are absolutely scrapping for the life.

So that going into the game in two different zones, Liverpool again and let's get three points here.

 If we don't get three points now, we're adrift because other teams of one, it's a completely different mentality from both teams. 