贏球本該是慶功時(shí)刻，利物浦卻在賽后被自家分析師潑了冷水。Anfield Index的David Lynch在復(fù)盤2-0擊敗富勒姆的比賽時(shí)，把Cody Gakpo最近的狀態(tài)形容為"fallen off a cliff"——直接從懸崖跌落。這話出自自家陣營(yíng)，比對(duì)手批評(píng)刺耳得多。

Lynch的措辭很克制，甚至先說(shuō)了句"I didn't mind his performance"打底。但緊接著就補(bǔ)刀："there were a few moments of kind of it just wasn't going right"。這種"先揚(yáng)后抑"的話術(shù)，熟悉他風(fēng)格的人都知道——后面才是重點(diǎn)。搭檔Dave Davis更直接，說(shuō)這又是"another game where he kind of struggled"，本賽季已經(jīng)重復(fù)太多次。

數(shù)據(jù)層面同樣難看。Gakpo的射門轉(zhuǎn)化率被點(diǎn)名"among the lowest in the league"，Lynch還加了一句扎心的觀察："his biggest problem he couldn't massively get involved to be honest"。一個(gè)前鋒"參與不進(jìn)去"，在利物浦這種高壓體系里等于隱形。Davis的總結(jié)更毒："often makes the right wrong call or runs into traffic"——該對(duì)的時(shí)候選錯(cuò)，該沖的時(shí)候撞墻。

Lynch試圖找補(bǔ)，提到"selfless runs"和"plug gaps"的無(wú)球貢獻(xiàn)，承認(rèn)這是"a little bit of a thankless task"。但話鋒一轉(zhuǎn)，"Gakpo's a worry for me"——擔(dān)憂寫在了明處。賽季末段，這種"懸崖?tīng)顟B(tài)"能不能爬回來(lái)，Lynch沒(méi)給答案，只留了一句："You need them to play better."