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Liverpool’s dreams of a triple historical collapsed in the most unexpected way on Sunday afternoon, when Arne Slot’s side crashed from Fa cup At the hands of Plymouth Argyle.
The team that supported the lower part of the championship table was more than deserved winners in Home Park, with the decisive blow delivered by the penalty coldly received from Ryan Hardie after Harvey Elliott was penalized for shaking the arms in the air.
Hardie could have doubled the advantage, but instead hit the position of Caoimhin Kelleher, and strangely there was no real siege of Plymouth’s goal at any stage such as the very changed leaders of the Premier League, who did not even take Virgil van Dijk , Mohamed Salah, Cody Gakpo, Alexis Mac Allister and a large number of other players prominent to the southwest, created almost nothing.
It was a very flat and lethargic exhibition of Liverpool, which seemed unsuspecting ideas against a team that competed for each ball and implemented the definition of the dictionary of ‘running its socks’.
The Liverpool season will not be defined by this defeat, far from it, but three players should be afraid that slots remembering how bad they were here before a shaking of expected personnel in the summer.
When you are looking to establish in a new environment, you must take every opportunity you give you. But for Federico Chiesa, this was an performance of horror show that will do little to improve its possibilities of earning more minutes under the slot.
The Italian is not the player who was a few years ago, due to a catalog of injury problems, but he did not even seem an international player here and much less one who illuminated the Euro 2020 a little less than four years ago.
Chiesa showed no spark, creativity or composure, since Liverpool finally grouped the ball in the penalty area that sought to break Plymouth’s resolution. Luis Díaz was not much better on the opposite flank, but Chiesa really offered nothing.
Rumors have been circulated that Diogo Jota can leave Liverpool in the summer if an adequate offer is received, if he plays as a regular basis, those offers will be quickly accepted.
Jota has been very good to stretch the defenses for several years, but you feel that his injury problems have forced him to adapt his game, instead of falling short to receive the ball and trust his ability in tense spaces. That explosion of rhythm I had seems no longer.
Plymouth marked the 28 -year -old, winning most duels in the air, but did nothing outside the ordinary movement. He was worked, predictable and gave him a ridiculous amount of times: 11 to be precise.
The end of the 39% pass does not really reduce it at any football level and will certainly not do it for the best team in the country.
Harvey Elliott has been very vocal about his desire to stay in Liverpool and start more games from the first team, feeling that he has all the necessary tools to contribute from the center of the field.
To do that, the 21 -year -old has to step forward at the Cup games and show their skills. Take matches like this because of the scrapping of the neck, knowing that he is playing with some teammates, and shows that there is life outside Mac Allister, Ryan Gravenberch and company. The passenger mode is not an option.
Unfortunately, that’s exactly what Elliott was here. An expected goals of 0.02 and an expected assistance account of 0.04 shows how little he did in the last third and also admitted the penalty that the game alters when he puts himself with his hands over the unknown reasons.
