We didn’t have an alternative for Konate except an unfit Gomez and Gakpo has been better than Mo in my opinion.
Still, the use of our forwards and fitting Wirtz into the team has been appalling.
There were some positive moments in the first half as well, i thought we looked like a top 4 football team for the first 65 minutes. Of course that counts for little if you then ship 3 unneeded goals...
We lost in a very frustrating manner so it's easy to overlook the silver lining. We scored 3 goals, weren't as lethargic as the last 5-10 games, looked like we had a plan going forward. Apart from madness in defence we looked much improved.
like this please;
-------------- ali ------
bradley konate van dijk kerkez
------------- grav ------------
------- Dom ---- Jones -----
------------- wirtz -----------
----- ekitike -- gakpo -------
If we play 4-4-2 or any formation with 2 strikers and Wirtz in the hole then we can play 2.
I don’t think Salah at 9 is weird, positioning and finishing are attributes that are more important at 9 than at RW and less prone to deteriorating with age.