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Ex-Liverpool man thinks Reds look 'tired' after dull Leeds draw

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Daniel Sturridge feels Liverpool filter “overexerted”

Previous Liverpool demonstrator Daniel Sturridge supposes the Reds filter “overexerted” after they enticed 1-1 with Leeds United in the Premier League.

The Reds have reclaimed from a period of derogatory form of late. They began the Premier League season with six success on the spin, but after that fell off considerably and slipped correct into the bottom half of the table.

They did not lose at with one voice in December, but there were some less than advising results, such as a 3-3 draw with Leeds and 1-1 draw with Sunderland.

They possessed won four games on the spin in the past meeting Leeds over again on the initially day of 2026, and possessed purely 3 inoculations on target as they as shortly as over again enticed with the Whites, this time in a 0-0.

Previous Liverpool demonstrator Sturridge feels the Reds were underwhelming in the draw.

He claimed: “They’ll be unsatisfied with that capability. They glanced a tidbit tidbit overexerted, they lacked that sharpness. There wasn’t much from them sinister Leeds. They dealt with it quite faultlessly, but they didn’t have that creative sharpness.”

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Reds top mutt Arne Slot thumbed Liverpool purely possessed to maximize their possession by detecting the web.

He claimed: “A need, that’s the the majority of raw reply. And also to rating a need versus a team that’s defending so faultlessly in and around their box, there are a few ways to unlock it.

“That is for some teams in this league, or for a boatload of teams in this league, a kit-portion. We were chummy with Virgil [van Dijk]. We obtained eight – however, we didn’t rating. An additional means of unlocking it is something we saw last week versus Wolves, when Jeremie Frimpong possessed his moment of wizardry, a speedy one-v-one wherein he channelled the bulbous in, and I think he possessed a few of those minutes today as faultlessly.

“If you filter at the bigger image, so you neglect the one-v-ones, I claimed to them at half-time [that] we can channeling more bodies in the box than we in minutes did in the initially half. As shortly as we did cross, it would have been nice if there were more bodies in their box from us, not from them but from us.

“Plenty of bulbous possession. I think we are the team with the the majority of bulbous possession this year in the league, but bulbous possession habits not a boatload if you cannot construct sufficient opportunities. To construct opportunities versus a devalued block you call for pace, consumer unforgettable minutes to construct an overload. You don’t see a boatload of 15-to-20-enacts purposes versus devalued blocks.”

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