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Liverpool, who failed in their first show, was pushed to the forefront in an instant.

The team's tactical arrangement for the new season has become the most criticized point by the media and professionals.

If it is said that in the past two seasons, Rogers' tactics have formed a perfect fit with the players, then this season, Rogers' tactical immaturity is undoubtedly revealed.

It can only be said that after two seasons and countless championships, Rogers began to pursue deeper reforms.

He wants to knead the once successful tactics together, try to use a more complex tactical system to play more beautiful offensive and defensive performances, to prove his coaching ability, to prove that the team's past success is not only due to player factors, but also to his own Coaching ability is also indispensable.

It's just that it's obvious that one bite can't make you fat.

The transfer operations of Rodgers and Liverpool's management this season can only be said to have taken too many steps.

On the one hand, it is from the perspective of team management, and on the other hand, it is to try the fusion of various offensive tactics.

Forcibly advancing personnel to leave the team and introduce personnel is too risky. Destroyed the balance of the previous team.

Although Liverpool's management team is very peaceful, on the pitch, at least so far, the sense of imbalance in this lineup is very clear.

Losing to Arsenal is naturally not the end of the world. After all, for a wealthy team, the champion of the Community Shield Cup is not as important as the English League Cup.

Liverpool don't have to care too much about this championship.

However, the loss of a game is obviously not an accidental manifestation of Liverpool's team problems.

The first round of the Premier League.

In the opening game between Manchester United and Tottenham, the battle was dark, and then Manchester United won 1-0 at home, after a thrilling victory.

The rest of the Premier League games also started in full swing afterwards.

Liverpool's first round game, away to Stoke City.

This past "City of the Sky", when the results were quite stable, began to "expand" inwardly, trying to carry out technical reforms to increase the team's viewing experience.

In the first round of the match, Stoke City, who sit at home, borrowed Arsenal's defensive tactics, used pressing to limit Coutinho's space for the ball, and implemented key follow-up defenses against Liverpool's receivers.

For Liverpool's midfield, there are almost no orthodox wide players' weaknesses. Stoke City's main defensive arrangement is all in the midfield to limit Liverpool.

As for the space on the wing, it is to lure the Liverpool full-back to attack forward, and then Stoke City's counterattack will directly hit the space behind the attacking full-back for Liverpool, and implement a key blow.

As for the defense of Benteke, if Benteke was treated as an ordinary player on Aston Villa's front line last season, then Benteke, who has been treated as a "superstar" now, faces the confrontation between the two. When defending, he can indeed give full play to his advantages in physical strength and grab some landing points, but the attack threat he creates is obviously still within the acceptable range of Stoke City.

A rich team, even in an away game, must strive to win.

Liverpool, which has been unable to open the situation for a long time, can only continue to invest in the offensive end of the game.

The constant offense was blocked, on the one hand, it increased the impatience of Liverpool's offensive players, on the other hand, it also gave Stoke City players more and better counterattack opportunities.

The defensive line led by Yang Feng ran around again, trying to complete the defensive interception under the condition of frantically digging holes in the frontcourt.

However, the Premier League teams, which have always been in the middle and upper reaches, are still at home and have strong offensive capabilities. With Liverpool's continuous counterattack opportunities, they can still make Liverpool drink a pot.

At the beginning of the second half of the game, Shaqiri crossed diagonally from the side during the counterattack. When Yang Feng rushed forward to defend other counterattackers, Shaqiri ran to the heart of Liverpool.

After receiving a pass from his teammate, he easily accelerated and swayed Skrtel's defense and scored a goal.

The progress of the game after that was almost exactly the same as the game between Liverpool and Arsenal a few days ago.

Stoke City, which retracted its defensive line and fought back with peace of mind, effectively resolved the threat of Liverpool's full-scale attack.

Rogers is constantly adjusting the offensive players, but on the offensive end, the threats he can create are limited.

The offense in the open game was completely stuck, and in the set-piece offense, facing the five-back defense sent by Stoke City, even though Liverpool had an advantage in height, they did not form a threat to break the goal.

In the end, Liverpool lost 0-1 again, but this time the opponent was no longer a wealthy team, and the overall problems of the Liverpool team became more and more worrying.

A few months ago, Liverpool, which was so glorious and hard to find a defeat, suddenly became unable to play football after one summer.

Everyone is looking for Liverpool's problems and expects Liverpool to get back on track quickly, but the schedule is waiting for no one.

Liverpool want to adjust, but they don't have time. After the first round of the Premier League, with two matches a week, Liverpool will go to Georgia non-stop.

As the champions of the UEFA Champions League, they will face the Europa League champion Sevilla at the Tbilisi International Stadium in Georgia to compete for the UEFA Super Cup this season.

As an important European honor, Liverpool must have a more correct attitude towards this championship than the Community Shield.

However, in this game where Liverpool wanted to use a championship to boost morale, they achieved the Europa League championship and once again completed their reputation on the next gram.

Sevilla, in this game, fully demonstrated their offensive style. Against Liverpool, it was completely a gesture of beating a dog in the water.

Arsenal's tactics against Liverpool before, if Stoke City is limited by the strength of the players, their performance is limited, and they need to focus on defensive arrangements.

So in La Liga, Sevilla, which has always been known as the "nervous knife", today used a better offensive performance than Arsenal to expose Liverpool's last face.

Throughout the game, Sevilla used an offensive attitude to completely pull Liverpool off the altar.

The team's active frontcourt pressing defense, smooth offensive passing and cutting cooperation, copied Liverpool's play style last season, and suppressed Liverpool this season so that there was no chance for the whole game.

3 to 0!

The Europa League champion Sevilla not only defeated Liverpool in an upset, but also formed a strong crush on the scene. The audience did not give Liverpool too many opportunities.

If you are not familiar with Liverpool's red jersey, from the perspective of the pure scene, Sevilla, who has an absolute advantage in the scene, is the general impression that everyone should have the advantage in the game and take the lead in the score.

It can only be said that being defeated by the opponent with the style of play that he was once good at is a pretty bad experience for Liverpool.

Three consecutive losses at the beginning of the season, and the losses were more miserable than the previous ones.

What happened to Liverpool?

In the opening stage, in three games, they missed two championship trophies. Liverpool's performance made everyone very worried.

It is not just the two championship honors, but Liverpool's performance that is worse than the other is what worries everyone the most.

Such a game performance is very unlike Liverpool, and it does not have the charm of Liverpool in the past.