15 Feb 2018 15:43:25
I saw a post a while ago again about someone mentioning a 30 goal a season striker.

So who should take a place on the bench out of Mane, Salah and Firmino. You will struggle to find a more potent front three.

City rely on Aguero, Spurs rely on Kane, UTD rely on cough cough Lukaku. Arsenal, well we know how it is going with them spending massive amounts on strikers.

All I can say is welcome to Liverpool under Klopp where we play with 3 forwards. That way we do not have to depend on one player up top getting most of the goals.

1.) 15 Feb 2018
15 Feb 2018 16:12:56
Some sides do rely heavily on that sort of player, a pure finisher that hits home the chances the rest of the team creates. We don’t play that way at all thank goodness.

2.) 15 Feb 2018
15 Feb 2018 16:47:59
Firmino is the key driving force in a large portion of our counter attacks. IMO he is irreplaceable and I hope you agree underrated.

3.) 15 Feb 2018
15 Feb 2018 16:49:18
Max, it's harsh to say that City rely on Aguero to get the goals. They also have Sane, Sterling, de Bruyne, Jesus etc who are all in double figures for the season.

4.) 15 Feb 2018
15 Feb 2018 16:55:37
Best thing about Firmino is you can see he is enjoying playing for LFC.

The other good things is that we do not seem to be missing Coutinho.

5.) 15 Feb 2018
15 Feb 2018 17:10:12
sibsama,

Take Aguero out of the City team at this point and who is going to play up top for them? Jesus is injured. Without Aguero, who does Guardiola play up top? Yes, they do depend on Aguero. Aguero has been injury prone over the seasons too.

That is the point. If one of Salah, Mane or Firmino had to sit out then Klopp just throws someone else in like Ox, Solanke or Ings to fill the gap. Klopp is not depending on Firmino to play as an out and out striker like Aguero, Kane, Lukaku or Morata etc.

Clearly Firmino makes our attack tick but should he not be able to play, throw on Solanke to hold up the ball and we still have Mane and Salah to rip opposition defences to shreds.

6.) 15 Feb 2018
15 Feb 2018 17:17:08
Yes we do need a 20 or 30 goal forward. And we have 2 of them this season in Firmino and Salah. If they hadn't have scored those goals then we wouldn't be where we are.

7.) 15 Feb 2018
15 Feb 2018 18:34:10
I reckon Firmino will break 20 league goals and Salah will get more than 30 league goals. In the words of Teenage Fanclub, ain’t that enough?