Sevilla FC 3-3 Liverpool: 5 Talking Points

#3 Sevilla exploit Liverpool’s set-piece problems

A night to forget

Although six goals were scored on the night, just one came from open play. All of Sevilla’s goals came from dead-ball situations and that’ll perforate Jürgen Klopp’s massive ego of playing ‘heavy-metal football’. Klopp might get an album out, but with defending like that, his heavy-metal stuff isn’t going to get too many buyers. To be honest.

Liverpool don’t really know what they’re doing in set pieces. At the base of it are their goalkeepers, who don’t know when to come out to either punch or collect a delivery. That, subsequently, puts pressure on the defenders.

While they have managed to clear the first ball, the side’s midfielders have lacked the instinct to get their positioning right and win the second ball, something that showed last night.

Despite having nearly all 11 players in the penalty box, the second ball from the corner in injury time fell kindly to Guido Pizarro who had time to take a touch and then pass it into the net.

Sevilla’s quick wingers – Nolito and Sarabia – peppered the Liverpool box with cross after cross and though they took until injury time to find the equaliser, they were going about it the right away.