Liverpool’s new-look attack shows potential, but Community Shield loss is a blueprint for Premier League teams

London – Liverpool Started their new season if you, the neutral, would hope they will continue. Fully through the attack, perfectly prepared to leave holes behind them, they have set the stage for a season in which they score three or four on every occasion. They may have to be.

So much was clear when the community shield was decided from 12 meters out, FA Cup winners Crystal Palace who added a different prize to the first major trophy in their history. When Dean Henderson Diste Pet to the believers of Selhurst, who had made the journey from South Londs to Noord -West, the Liverpool players looked more crestfallen than was to be expected for a glorified friendly. Jeremie Frimpong Was frozen on the Wembley -Turf, Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai staring at the fast legend end that was filled with their supporters.

Did they feel reason for concern? The 90 minutes that preceded the shootout has at least accepted the question of whether the $ 356 million Liverpool spent on tackling the few errors in last season’s title winners, only served to make new ones. For a first semi-competitive outing together, the new look front four led by Hugo Ekitike and Florian Wirtz seemed more than ready to illuminate the load Mohamed is wrongwhose tough outing culminated in a penalty over the bar.

New fullbacks were required, but Milos Kerkez and Jeremie Frimpong hardly look like a zig in the direction of caution after the sawing attacks of Andy Robertson And Alexander-Arnold in the last eight years. Crystal Palace knew that they would be the weaknesses that a team that a natural torpedo hunter misses in midfield would have difficulty compensating when their fullbacks bomb. Now the rest of the competition will see what they see as the soft lower abdomen of the champions.

However, they will have to come up with it. That means suppressing the devastating interplay that Liverpool unleashed in the fourth minute. Kerkez, as his need was during this game, took the ball and drove through the midfield at a lengthy point. That space opened for both Ekitike and Cody Gakpo, the latter finds Wirtz where you can always find Wirtz, with a few meters of space. A bustling ball through the line to Ekitike, which stopped the defense before bending low in the far corner.

When that clicked for four, it was a pleasure. Ekitike drove to the left to help Gakpo while the presence of Frimpong gave his shoulder Salah license to move when and where the tendency brought him. According to last season’s standards, this was the Egyptian king on his most modest. It doesn’t matter, there is a new prince on Anfield that they can soon celebrate with similar verve.

Wirtz was everywhere, deep in the decrease to set the pace of the game or to wear the field with targeted dribbling. Blue and red shirts came together on him, but he seems to have already learned where his teammates will be for the last second wadds, a particularly beautiful film to Gakpo cruel. The former Bayer Leverkusen -Manman holds himself with the looms of the number 10 of the past, but just wait until he is on your jacket tails if he wants to own. What this evidence has is $ 150 million-plus a price that is worth paying.

The questions about Liverpool’s recruitment are elsewhere. New fullbacks were certainly necessary, but neither Kerkez nor the substandard frimpong are the kind that will at their best replace their attacking instincts. When it all clicks, it can be extremely effective, Kerkez a dynamo that shoots past the ball on runs that bring midfielders and always looking for the name rule. The Dutchman would mark his debut in a memorable way, floating his mis -guided cross over Dean Henderson when the clock struck 20:20 and the Liverpool -ended the deceased and much missed Diogo Jota.

However, on the other hand, such forefooters were exploited too often. Ismaila Sarr dragged Kerkez Infield and Palace kept on the Crossfield Ball for Daniel Munoz to run on, Gakpo offered little protection whether he went back or not. Liverpool also struggled the center, Jean-Phillipe Mateta drove behind it to claim a ball. Alisson scribbled to block the first break, but nobody in Off White was present to tackle the danger before Virgil van Dijk brought down Sarr.

This was a difficult game for the 34-year-old, caught himself acting when another found the ball of Adam Wharton Sarr. A clip past Alisson and a game that was postponed in the last 15 minutes was revived. Palace might have had more, Mateta crooked a penalty for an Alexis Mac Allister Handball soon after his side.

It might have been an easier day for Van Dijk et al with the first choice of double pivot for him. Ryan Gravenberch was absent after his partner gave birth on Saturday evening, while Mac Allister was limited to the bank. Neither of them are particularly natural torpedo hunters, but the end of Liverpool certainly stuck to the duo. In their place, Curtis Jones Was conservative enough, while Dominik Szoboszlai had a strange habit of flashing the ball over his own half. In most systems that flirts with danger. In Liverpool it is a hunting gun wedding.

This should be Liverpool’s worst defense, at least when at full power. This was hardly a super power of Catenacio Before the changes to Fullback, but with repetitions together, van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate Learned how to best cover Alexander-Arnold and Robertson. On the other hand, the next time those holes come up, it will be when the games really count. The rest of the competition will see this and convince themselves that the champions are there to come.