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MARTIN LATHAM (Woolton)

It must be clear to most Reds fans by now that Jurgen Klopp isn’t the master of the tactical gameplan.

In his early days, Jurgen told us that he wasn’t going to put his players under pressure to get a result, just to perform. I remember how good that made me feel – a team playing without pressure – confident, talented, outrageously exciting.

That did mean succumbing to the “randomness” of football (ie anything could happen), but no matter, with Jurgen building the confidence in the team, those wins would just take care of themselves.

Randomness means the lesser team can win – as Jurgen said, it means anyone can beat anyone.

Even if you’re not the best team on the pitch, you can still win – all you need is motivation.

Fantastic! That’s all we need to see us climbing back up the league, beating those teams everyone thought were better than us.

And to be fair, that’s what we’ve done under Klopp, up until the defeat at Manchester City, and even then, we looked capable of winning right up to Mane’s sending-off.

Unfortunately, there is always another side to this type of theory – you can fail to beat the teams that you are better than. And to be fair, that’s also what we’ve done – well almost.

Just look at the talent in the forward players now wearing the red shirt, capable of ripping the best defences to shreds, but too often failing to register a win.

You only need to look as far back as August to find proof of randomness. After making Bayern Munich look ordinary on their own ground, and following stunning wins against Arsenal and Hoffenheim, there then came Seville, Burnley and Leicester when we outplayed the opposition so comprehensively, but only managed two draws and a defeat.

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Then, just when you thought that frustration couldn’t get any worse, the draw against Spartak Moscow.

They were a team totally lacking in confidence following a poor start to their domestic campaign and with no real intent on doing better than drawing this game.

With our top attacking talent finally available to play together, this result should have been a formality.

As you would expect, we took them apart in almost every area of the pitch, and the quality of some of our approach play deserved to earn a comfortable win.

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But, time after time, and after some superb build-ups, a poor decision, a weak cross, or a criminal miss in front of goal, we failed to capitalise. Not just that, we managed to concede a goal to a team that’s barely had a kick in our half of the pitch.

So, is there a flaw in our approach to winning games, or are we just unlucky? Jurgen’s approach leaves results in the hands of fate, so should we adopt a more win-at-all-costs tactic?

There’s players out there that could do that for us – remember that theatrical dive that resulted in Joel Matip’s booking and Leicester getting back into the game last week?

We will crack this problem with results, and we’ll do it playing great football – it’ll just take a bit longer.

MARK BAKER (Huyton)

Liverpool’s manager has achieved the most difficult elements as a coach of a side.

Domination of most games territorially, relinquishing the second least chances on their goal in the division while creating a large number of chances with combination attacking functions of play.

The side's current flaws revolve around set play second phases and individual limitation in the left-sided centre-half position.

Klopp must believe the pursuit of Virgil van Dijk will end with the player joining the club, but the damage that could be inflicted in between could make the difference regarding short-term aspirations.

The system and open play methods employed by the manager are excellent but only with better calibre of player in the defensive third will flaws cease to hold back the side's progression.

SIMON DONNELLY (Freshfield)

We will score one more than you! Hopefully.

Well, evidently this is not always the case!

Against Moscow we certainly created enough chances, with our usual domination of the match stats, but worryingly, in recent weeks, we have not managed to convert our superior possession into the most important stat of all - goals!

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Bearing in mind our rather wobbly defensive situation, this causes me concern.

My other concern involves our keeper. My opinion? Pick your favourite and stick with him. For me, I'd give Danny Ward 10 games.

GRAHAM AGG (Netherton)

Despite an inconsistent start to the domestic and UEFA Champions League programme, I along with thousands of others are fully behind Jurgen Klopp and his backroom team.

What is however very disappointing is the fickleness of certain sections of the support. I am only talking about a minority of our fans but nevertheless it is becoming at times worryingly vocal in their inane and absurd views in criticising Klopp.

It is beyond belief that just a month short of celebrating Klopp's first two years there are actually fans questioning his credentials for the job.

It appears the modern day football supporter wants almost instant success, this despite the fact that Liverpool and Klopp are fighting against the financial muscle of Manchester City and United and Abramovich's billions at Chelsea.

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Even some of our long-term supporters need to take a long hard look at themselves.

The forward line Klopp has built is without doubt capable of scoring against any team in world football.

The problem remains the defensive vulnerability at the back that was once again on view at the recent 3-2 victory at Leicester City. I believe Jurgen Klopp needs to settle on a settled back four of Matip, Lovren, Andy Robertson and James Milner at right-back with Simon Mignolet in goal.

The constant changing of the back four and goalkeeper leads to a lack of understanding and it needs to be remembered that Leicester won the Premier League with an almost unchanged defence.

That is the only real criticism I can level at Klopp who has performed miracles in his first two years at Anfield. He's led the club to two major finals, qualified for the Champions League and has got the team playing the kind of fast-flowing attacking football that is a pleasure to behold.

Yes, we need a top class centre-back. Klopp knows it and I'm sure it will be addressed, hopefully in the January transfer window.

Liverpool's support however need to remember that we really are lucky to have our German 'Kaiser' as our manager and that he chose Liverpool as his next destination when he had the pick of the world's leading clubs to choose from.

As the greatest ever Liverpool manager Bill Shankly once said: “If you can't support us when we are losing, don't support us when we are winning.”