01 Feb 2016 16:29:12
Am i the only one that think Benteke can be good for LFC. I know he hasn't been at his best or even good at al these last game but don't you think he can adapt?
Can a proper preseason with Klopp make him adapt better?
YNWA.
01 Feb 2016 16:36:17
Benteke not a bad st u just need to use him right . he's not going to be a player like firminho who will press but he can get u a goal out of the blue.
01 Feb 2016 16:38:39
It's not even adapting, it's just he needs to try. Bust a gut to get into the box, get in front of a man to win the ball, or close down a defender under pressure. You can encourage it, but if he can't do it, it's either laziness, lack of fitness or both. It's not like he needs to save his energy for whatever else he does.
01 Feb 2016 16:38:39
It's not even adapting, it's just he needs to try. Bust a gut to get into the box, get in front of a man to win the ball, or close down a defender under pressure. You can encourage it, but if he can't do it, it's either laziness, lack of fitness or both. It's not like he needs to save his energy for whatever else he does.
01 Feb 2016 16:38:39
It's not even adapting, it's just he needs to try. Bust a gut to get into the box, get in front of a man to win the ball, or close down a defender under pressure. You can encourage it, but if he can't do it, it's either laziness, lack of fitness or both. It's not like he needs to save his energy for whatever else he does.
01 Feb 2016 16:55:28
He seems to have lost so much confidence. I don't remember seeing a succesful striker look so lost without having an injury, it is worse than Torres in his Chelsea days.
I thought he started the season not bad, not amazing maybe, but not bad, had a couple of quality goals, one great header from the end of the box, one great shot from outside the box, he didn't lose many balls and was the first for every ball in the air.
Now it is sad to watch him at times. Occasionaly he will still give a good pass, he is still better passer than most of our other forwards, but nothing other than that. He can get a ball in front of an open goal and will still miss. His movement is not great. He mainly look like he is not understanding our game and where he should be.
He suffered I think from Origi and Sturridge being injured, maybe as a second striker there would be less pressure on him (had we played two upfront which we didn't anyway though) and the expectations probably and the pressure of a big club when things didn't go well and him being dropped to the bench and Firmino preferred on him as a striker all didn't help. I don't buy all the lazy accusations. He is maybe not great in pressing but a lot of strikers aren't. For me it is still a big mystery what happened to him after being so prolific in AV - and their style wasn't that different to us even if they didn't press and had a bit more of a wide game.
It happens to some strikers with us unfortuantely. we saw it with Balo and Lambert last year. We have very poor service to our strikers and very little threat on goal other than them so it makes it easy to mark them.
I hope I am wrong but I don't see a future for him with us and I hope (though worried) for him, that he can recover his career elsewhere becuase he is very talented footballer.
01 Feb 2016 16:56:54
Agree with Fency, these are bentekes problems plus he's not the best finisher in front of goal. He's just not that good a striker, good enough squad player though.
01 Feb 2016 17:00:32
Yep your the only one.
01 Feb 2016 17:03:23
He's always been the same, what do people expect?
A few good games, knocks in a few goals then has a couple of months off.
01 Feb 2016 17:10:09
To be fair, when you are off form you start doing things you normally don't do to try and get back into the groove and it can make things that much worse. Sometimes while trying to dig yourself out of a hole you just dig further in!
01 Feb 2016 18:15:35
If you were out of form surely you'd try and make up for that with more effort, not wondering around the pitch hoping you score.