Champions League: Frankfurt vs Liverpool! The defense keeps collapsing, just how fragile is the home team?

Let's begin today's talkChampions League: Frankfurt vs Liverpool!

Four consecutive losses across all competitions mark Liverpool's longest losing streak in the past ten years, and the team's overall form is extremely poor.

If they were playing any other opponent today, I would struggle to feel very confident.

But since it's Frankfurt, they might just be the ideal candidate for a comeback.

After Liverpool's four straight defeats, pressure and criticism have mounted from all sides, with many fans even calling for Klopp's return.

However, coach Jürgen Klopp insists the team has played well but simply wasted too many chances.

Is he right?

He does have a point.

For example, in recent losses to Manchester United and Chelsea, Liverpool actually created more chances but failed miserably in front of goal, missing many clear opportunities.

Here is a key point:The intensity of physical battles in the Premier League far exceeds that of the other top four leagues.

Currently, Liverpool has some aging players like Salah and others who are naturally less robust like Wirtz; against teams like Chelsea, they get physically outmatched, making it very difficult to perform perfectly.

But Frankfurt faces two main problems.

First, their physical contest is weak.

The Bundesliga generally features less intense physical confrontations compared to the other top five leagues. Many players who dominate in the Bundesliga, like Werner and Wirtz, struggle badly when playing in the Premier League.

Frankfurt themselves are not strong even within the Bundesliga; last season their 3,068 successful duels ranked only mid to lower table.

Although Wirtz is currently criticized heavily at Liverpool, when he played for Bayer Leverkusen in the Bundesliga, he crushed Frankfurt repeatedly with scores like 5-1, 4-1, and 3-0.

Many Liverpool players lose some technical edge in the Premier League but might perform much better and more normally in the Bundesliga.

Second, Frankfurt has been having huge defensive problems recently.

Some might not have noticed yet,Frankfurt is actually the worst defensive team among all 18 Bundesliga clubs, conceding the most goals.

Many previously reliable players, such as the defensive pillar and captain Kohr, have been seemingly sleepwalking lately. For instance, in the last match against Freiburg, just over a minute into the game, he made a careless mistake that led to a quick counterattack and a goal against them.

As for the goalkeeper position, it has completely collapsed,Why does Frankfurt have the lowest average save rate in the Bundesliga at only 55.3%?They were the third best in the league just last season!

The reason is their highly rated ball-playing Brazilian goalkeeper Santos, who almost every match makes a basic error gifting the opponent a chance.

These issues are actually related to Frankfurt's operational strategy.

As we know,Frankfurt has been the world's top-selling club for player transfers over the past three seasons, earning 163 million euros, very well off.

Mainly, their scouting and luck have been quite good. Look,every year in the last three years, they have sold a very expensive striker—selling players like Muani and Marmoush, then Marmoush again, and developing Ekittik (now at Liverpool).

But the problem is, no one can be successful and lucky forever. Their continuous success has made Frankfurt extremely confident, selling anyone they want,even letting go of their main goalkeeper and former captain Trapp from the past seven years.That finally backfired.

It’s not just the goalkeeper who was a mistake; the striker signing Wahy, their second most expensive in club history, hardly gets any playing time.

Frankfurt has indeed been excellent at developing and selling strikers historically; the five most expensive players they ever sold were all forwards.

But this time they made a mistake: out of four strikers in the squad, Ngankam wasn’t registered for the Champions League, Batshuayi performed so poorly he didn’t even make the last squad, Wahy is basically abandoned, leaving only one striker, Burkart, available to play.

A team built around strikers now has only one usable forward, and against a team like Liverpool tonight, their attacking threat will likely be quite limited.

So although Liverpool’s current situation looks worse, Frankfurt’s crisis might actually be more severe, with problems on both offense and defense.

Liverpool feels the crisis deeply from top to bottom and urgently needs to bounce back and get back on track; otherwise, morale will collapse.

Therefore, in terms of fighting spirit, I still have quite a bit of trust in them.

Considering everything, do you think Liverpool can satisfy their fans? I’m looking forward to their victorious start!

Alright, for other matches today, I will continue to share my written insights tonight. If anything is unclear, feel free to ask me. “Watch the game and understand,” see you there!

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