Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has 強化するd in midfield and attack but there are still glaring 穴を開けるs in defence - they MUST 強化する before the new season

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The problems with Liverpool last season were 平易な to 診断する.?

Anyone could see they were weak and 病弱な, short of energy and 運動 in midfield, hence?relentless critique of Liverpool's ageing engine room.

And the profligacy of 今後s Darwin Nunez, the 時折の inconsistencies of the (大部分は brilliant) Mo Salah, the 傷害 問題／発行するs of Diogo Jota and Luis Diaz and the adaptation of Cody Gakpo meant 焦点（を合わせる） was placed on their attack too.

But after an impressive midfield 改造する, with Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai arriving, 経営者／支配人 Jurgen Klopp may now have to turn his attention to another glaring 問題／発行する in his squad - the defence.

The Reds have 得点する／非難する／２０d eight goals in their two 開始 pre-season fixtures against lower league German 対立 but have 譲歩するd a whopping six in reply.

Jurgen Klopp saw his 味方する （人命などを）奪う，主張する and 勝利，勝つ and a draw from their first two pre-seasons 遠出s

Liverpool's 優れた attack was on 罰金 form and 得点する／非難する／２０d eight goals in the two encountrers

Virgil 先頭 Dijk is entering his sixth 十分な season with the club に引き続いて his £75m arrival in 2018

Form and fitness 問題／発行するs 固執する with Joel Matip, Joe Gomez and the 潜在的に miscast Trent Alexander-Arnold, while Virgil 先頭 Dijk enters the （選挙などの）運動をする as a 32-year-old perhaps a little short of the 爆発性の pace and acceleration he once had.

It's a far cry from the 豊富 of riches in attack, where?Gakpo, Diaz and Nunez have complemented?Salah and Jota to form what 約束s to be a truly 破滅的な Liverpool 罪／違反 once they are all fit and have time to gel.

The riches in attack are constrasted oddly with the rags in defence - and, unfortunately, the creaking backline is 脅すing to 妨げる the next （選挙などの）運動をする - just as it did in the previous one.

Liverpool had a pretty laissez-faire approach to 'defending' when Klopp first arrived on Merseyside in 2016.

The German's style, then affectionately known as '激しい-metal football', was so 積極的な that it 必然的に exposed the backline.

Notwithstanding the 各々の 欠陥／不足s of the likes of Dejan Lovren, Mamadou Sakho and Alberto Moreno, the problems tended to be a by-製品 of the unyielding philosophy.

Some of the same 圧力（をかける）ing 問題／発行するs were on 陳列する，発揮する in the Reds' 4-2 victory against second-tier German outfit Karlsruher last Wednesday.?

Liverpool's Ibrahima Konate returns a 通関手続き／一掃 to 始める，決める up the 開始 goal for the 勝利者s

The image above led to Liverpool's 開始 goal but にもかかわらず shows the 危険，危なくする of the team's high octane style. Ibrahima Konate (3 above) manages to get his 長，率いる の上に a loose ball with three 対立 players in の近くに proximity.?

As another couple sit just behind Alexander-Arnold (5 above)?ready to snatch the ball and spring a dangerous 反対する attack.?

On this occasion, the defender's header manages to find Bobby Clark (5 below), who flicks on the ball to find a cluster of players 大いに より数が多いing their 対抗者s in a dangerous position.??

The 決定／判定勝ち（する） to 圧力（をかける） from the 前線 paid （株主への）配当s in the 早期に 訴訟／進行s but Liverpool were caught out in a manner reminiscent of last season for Karlsruher's second goal after the break.?

In the instance below the home team have 支配（する）／統制する of the ball on the far left-手渡す 味方する, which they used to 広大な／多数の／重要な 影響 by finding a player in the centre.

But the 圧力（をかける） 簡単に didn't work and within two passes the German outfit were able to find an 平易な 大勝する to goal.?

It's 完全に possible that Klopp and his coaching staff prioritised 圧力（をかける）ing in their next game, and にもかかわらず 譲歩するing four times in their その後の 遠出 the team 大部分は 避けるd such （疑いを）晴らす 構造上の 問題／発行するs.?

Instead it was the individual mistakes that 妨害するd their 成果／努力s and pointed to the other 問題／発行する that will worry the Liverpool boss.? ?

Salah (4) finds Nunez (2) in behind after taking in Clark's (5) flick on as Liverpool take the lead

Liverpool's 今後 and midfield 部隊s were 効果のない／無能な at 軍隊ing a mistake from the defenders

The home 味方する were able to fashion a high-value 発射 on goal from two 平易な passes in their half

In 2019 the Reds 発展させるd from an exciting team who could （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 anyone on their day to 合法的 肩書を与える 競争相手s, and then 結局の 勝利者s, when they 昇格d at 重要な positions and 緩和するd their 肉体的に 集中的な 姿勢.

Even then, the 圧力（をかける） and high line 可決する・採択するd between 2019 and 2022 - a four-season stretch in which Liverpool had the best defence in the league three times - kept with an ultra-risky style and relied on the 無敵の 速度(を上げる） of 先頭 Dijk in his prime and the ever dependable Alisson Becker in goal.?

Today the Netherlands 船長／主将 may be 井戸／弁護士席 past that historic pinnacle and if not for the continued brilliance of the Brazilian 'keeper, Liverpool would have likely 譲歩するd more goals in a 38-game 首相 League season during the 2022-23 （選挙などの）運動をする than ever before.

The Reds' goal was 違反d 47 times when the final whistle blew at St Mary's on the final day, nearly 二塁打 the number of 譲歩s during the 2021-22 （選挙などの）運動をする, にもかかわらず Alisson 存在 指名するd Player of the Season.

Alisson Becker was 指名するd Liverpool's Player of the Season for the first time last （選挙などの）運動をする?

Joe Gomez (権利) has 苦しむd with 傷害 and a 欠如（する） of form since Liverpool's 肩書を与える 勝利，勝つ in 2020

His level of 業績／成果 saved a disappointing （選挙などの）運動をする from turning into a truly 悲惨な one.?によれば Opta data, Liverpool 直面するd a total of 103 big chances in the league, the third-worst in the 分割 and only behind Fulham and 物陰／風下d tied on 112.

That 量d to a truly staggering 2.95 big chances 直面するd per 90. For 状況 the leaders in this metric were Manchester City with 1.29, Newcastle were next on 1.34 followed by Manchester 部隊d on 1.63.

兵器庫, who ended up 存在 City's nearest 挑戦者s, 直面するd a total of 33 より小数の big chances than the Reds but only 譲歩するd four より小数の goals.?

先頭 Dijk played more games than any other Liverpool defender, featuring 32 times in the league, while the out-of-form Gomez made the second-most 外見s for a centre-支援する and played two more games than Konate with 18.

一方／合間, Matip struggled with 傷害 and could only make 14 外見s in what many had 推定する／予想するd to be his final season with the club.

Essentially if not for the brilliance of Alisson, the season might have spiralled 井戸／弁護士席 past the point were a 回復 that saw the Reds remain in the 追跡（する） for 支持する／優勝者s League 資格 would have been possible.?

Those 防御の woes have not been 完全に overlooked by the club this 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 with previous links to Chelsea defender Levi Colwill, showing a 願望（する） to 新採用する a centre-支援する with the ability to play on the left.

Bayern Munich's Benjamin Pavard has also been linked with a move, まっただ中に? 不確定 over where Alexander-Arnold will predominantly play next 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語.??

Liverpool have seen their 利益／興味 in Levi Colwill quashed by Chelsea's 願望（する） to keep him?

Trent Alexander-Arnold played as Liverpool's deepest midfielder in both pre-season games

But 防御の 新採用するs have certainly taken a 支援する seat to the headline-grabbing midfield 再編成 that all connected to Anfield have been clamouring for.

平等に as intriguing is Klopp's 決定／判定勝ち（する） to field Alexander-Arnold in the midfield 'number six' position for the games against Karlsruher and Gruerther Furth.?

One would assume that choice was at least 部分的に／不公平に dictated by the need to fill two different XI's for the 早期に friendly 関係, with Fabinho and Jordan Henderson 近づくing moves away.

Though the 24-year-old's 有効性 in a hybrid 役割 at the end of last season and his impressive 陳列する，発揮するs i n midfield for England have certainly raised questions about whether he will finally say goodbye to his days as a 十分な-支援する.

Klopp 確認するd that Liverpool were still in the market for 新規加入s まっただ中に the surprise 出発s of two of their more experienced 選挙運動者s.

'Still three-and-a-half weeks until the first game of the season,' he told the club's We are Liverpool podcast. A few things have to happen before then, definitely, 移転 market-wise 同様に.?That is （疑いを）晴らす now. And it will happen. New players have to come in. We will have a good team.'

信用／信任 will be high の中で the Liverpool fanbase that when the window の近くにs the team will be good. The question is, will it be balanced??

On the 証拠 of two, admittedly 公正に／かなり unimportant, warm-up games, it is pretty difficult to see how it will be.??