Shelf life is football Players may just be the shortest. Baseball wants to get there, but in the football world, it basically still works, and once you hit 30, they start counting down for you. So on the one hand, Roberto Firmino seems to be playing for Liverpool forever.On the other hand, on the statistical table, he’s really only been a regular in the squad for six seasons, and a total of eight at the club, which is hardly a blip. How is it possible to have both?
When Firmino arrived at Liverpool, the club was basically a mess. The Brendan Rodgers era is unraveling at breakneck speed, with Steven Gerrard gone, and it feels like that brief window in the spring of 2014, when they actually could and should have won the league, closed forever. If so, that’s the norm on the horizon. Like everything else at the end of Rodgers’ reign, he either didn’t know how to use Firmino or had too many ideas about how to use him. Right before Rodgers was eliminated, we even saw Bobby as a right back. What the hell is going on here?
Today’s game doesn’t really offer room for a traditional No. 1. 10 and definitely not in Van Diesel vehicle speed The Premier League. Even center forwards don’t need to run, press and open the lanes for others as much as they used to. Jurgen Klopp showed up, came out of his weird lab and said: “I’m going to make Firmino a number one. number 10 9 at the same time! ’ and giggled out of Klopp’s maniacal laugh, which we thought was utterly endearing, and which to others might be the shrillest sound in the world.
Bobby as eccentric as Jurgen Klopp
Fortunately for Klopp, and fortunately for us, Bobby was as off-centre as his manager and fully embraced the role.Liverpool fans will remember it all started at City with Klopp yelling at Firmino to go further and get ahead of him, and then he Scored his first goal for Liverpool A few minutes later. It felt as if something was born.
Klopp and Liverpool’s system relied heavily on Firmino’s never-ending energy, creativity and playfulness.He can run all day to trigger the intense pressure of the first few games season. He was furious at the fight back and smiled at the unending chaos of Liverpool at the time. As the team developed, when Klopp wanted more control of the ball, Firmino was equally happy to drop from the front line into the pocket between the two attacking midfielders and the defence. It seems like in most games when he has the ball he has this force field around him and it’s just before he slips on Salah or Mane or finishes himself, those flashes in the air around him just seem to be there Potential tacklers bouncing in the air around him.
However, while doing all of this, he still has plenty of time to finish in the paint. 81 times in fact.
Even with Klopp’s list of responsibilities, Firmino still finds time to make amends. like this:
or this:
or this:
And when he’s really excited, there’s a chance of not watching the ball into the net or devilish finish Just because he loves it.
Fake 9 with all the toppings
It might be a bit of a stretch to say that Firmino invented the false 9 because teams have used it before, and he’s not just a false 9, he’s a false 9 with all the toppings added. He certainly made it his own, while never hiding how excited he was to be doing all these things that shouldn’t have been just one player. Perhaps no other player possesses such a solid structure and is completely avant-garde like Firmino.
Every fan has their favorite club legend goals. Most likely picked him the winner against PSG when he injured his eye in training the day before and couldn’t really see out.or maybe this Hammer of the Gods against Stoke City. Maybe it’s slalom against Arsenal.
Maybe the one that won the Club World Cup at the end of 2019.how many of mine in a few days.the two of them The goal against Leicester itself wasn’t that special. But Liverpool flew back from the Middle East on Boxing Day to take on a then second-placed side and simply wiped Leicester’s ass 4-0 in the moonlight for 90 minutes, leaving nothing behind. thing. Doubt the league champions will eventually return to Anfield.As we’ve seen a team dismantled for good and it’s Bobby and the vegas jiva smile He played.
Bobby’s game is too much to put together forever. In your 30s, you can’t run as much as he does and do all the other stuff. The arrival of Luis Diaz last season pushed Bobby over the edge, and the arrivals of Darwin Nunes and Cody Gacpo this season have exacerbated that. Football doesn’t wait, and doesn’t handle sentimentality well.
Bobby played his last game for Liverpool at Anfield on Saturday and scored, and rightfully so. His Reds career will come to an end on Sunday. A career full of mischief and energy, karate-kick celebrations and well-timed tackles and passes that no one should try or even see, just an utter joy that probably won’t be able to replicate.
Man, how is it possible to only have six seasons, really? Just like Firmino on the court, there are too many things in him. It seems impossible to only have six seasons, just like it is impossible to have them all in one player.
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