Ridiculous Liverpool red flag is the biggest disappointment of all

Liverpool are in trouble right now. One red flag is the biggest disappointment of all.

Liverpool dropped points at home to Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday afternoon in one of their worst performances of the campaign. Because let's get it right: Spurs are a rotten team.

They're short on numbers, unable to win games, and makes mistakes galore. Yet Liverpool couldn't put them away and relied on yet another Dominik Szoboszlai free kick just to get on the scoresheet.

All in all, it's terrible. The pressure is incredibly high on Arne Slot right now and it's not entirely clear that he'll see it through.

There are plenty of red flags about this team, too. One of them, though, stands above the rest as the biggest disappointment.

Liverpool's red flag

Liverpool play the same way in every match. Now, there are small differences depending on the opponent, of course, but broadly, you can always expect Liverpool to be in a 4-2-3-1.

Two wingers with pace behind them at full-back. Two sitting midfielders with licence to break the lines on the ball, a no.10 behind the striker. That's been the way under Slot.

But when we say 'play the same way' that's not actually the point here. The point is that no matter who the opponent is, Liverpool play the same match.

It will always be one with little expression through the middle of the park, a lack of control, and typically decided by the odd goal. Games a frequently open towards the end, whether Liverpool are chasing a goal or defending one.

It was the same against Tottenham. It was the same against Galatasaray in midweek. Rewind to the two Wolves fixtures and you'll see similar, much as you would against Arsenal or Manchester City.

Liverpool have no identity. They turn up and virtually all success they have is on the back of having much better players than nearly every team in the league.

But in terms of controlling a match or enacting a gameplan? Essentially never. You know what you'll get in the match and it'll be the same as it was the match before.

And given it's March and still hasn't changed, it's difficult to believe that the control is right around the corner. It's far easier to believe it will never arrive the way things stand.

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