Liverpool have a habit of slow start?

Facing Fulham in the opening match, Liverpool once again let the opponent score to open the scoring. More broadly, in the last 9 official matches in all competitions, The Kop let the opponent score up to 7 matches in advance.

Fulham is a newly promoted team. Liverpool are expected to beat this opponent to have a smooth opening match of the season. However, what happened left The Kop fans disappointed. Liverpool played stalemate in the early game, even at one point being overwhelmed by Fulham in the midfield battle. And in the end, they let the London team take the lead in the 32nd minute.

Thus, once again Liverpool let the opponent score the opening goal. What is worrying is that this is something that has been repeated for a long time. Specifically, in the last 9 matches in all competitions, The Kop let the opponent score the first goal 7 times. This is a statistic that shows that Liverpool have a bad habit of starting matches very slowly.

Let's look at the Premier League schedule first. In the 38th round last season, the decisive round for the 2021/22 Premier League championship. Liverpool host Wolves at home and still have a chance to win the title. However, they let Wolves have the opening goal after only 3 minutes of rolling the ball. The previous round, Liverpool marched to St Mary's Stadium of Southampton. And they also let Southampton open the scoring after only the first 13 minutes. The scenario of the matches against Aston Villa (May 11) and Tottenham (May 8) are also similar.

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In total, it has been 5 consecutive matches in the Premier League that Klopp's army let the opponent score the opening goal. Those are the 2-2 draws with Fulham, the 3-1 win at Wolves, the 2-1 win over Southampton, 2-1 win over Aston Villa and 1-1 draw with Tottenham. In fact, Liverpool did not lose any of these 5 matches, even won 3 matches in reverse. But certainly Klopp does not want his team to fall into a situation where they have to chase. Because the striker of The Kop can not always correct mistakes in the defense.

The Champions League final 2021/22 is an example. Liverpool were more appreciated, but let Real Madrid open the scoring in the 59th minute. It was a ball Alexander-Arnold forgot without Vinicius, allowing this striker to sneak behind and score. The mistake of The Kop defense made them lose 0-1 and have to see Real Madrid raise the championship.

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Observe how Liverpool's kick recently is easy to see in matches with small opponents, when the opponent plays a deep defense and creates a multi-layered defense, The Kop is often quite deadlocked. Many matches like this Liverpool had to need fixed situations to break the deadlock. In the case of a stalemate like that, but The Kop is still opened by the opponent, it will be even more difficult. So Klopp needs to change Liverpool's habit of slow start.

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Liverpool have regained 115 points from the matches they have lost in the Premier League under Klopp. In the period from October 2015 to now, The Kop is the team upstream to win the most points in the Premier League.

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