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#2 Lack of creativity in midfield
Liverpool's midfield got a lot of applause from the pundits and fans during the first few games of the season. However, their form declined quickly and they started looking directionless all of a sudden.
The Reds' midfield is more about hard work than intelligence, improvisation, and incision, which costs them against the teams who are defensively well organized. Liverpool failed to register a single shot on target in their Champions League game against Napoli which shows how ineffective Liverpool's midfield is recently.
Liverpool sold Phillipe Coutinho to Barcelona in the January transfer window of 2018 which left a huge creative hole to fill in the team. Nevertheless, Naby Keita arrived from RB Leipzig in the summer but the Guinean is yet to make his influence felt on the team.
