Didi Hamann on what went wrong for Liverpool this season

Liverpool’s start to the season has started off in the worst possible manner with the team sitting in 10th position after 10 league games and fourteen points off the top.

It is rather surprising to see the current reality of the team and the manner of its recent performances considering the fact that Liverpool were competing for an unprecedented quadruple last season and were within touching distance of achieving so.

Eventually, we won two trophies and lost out on the Premier League title to Manchester City with the tiniest of margins and lost the UEFA Champions League final to Real Madrid in a rather non-pulsating final, which could have gone either way.

Former Reds player Didi Hamann, who was part of the 2005 UEFA Champions League winning squad believes the psychological aspect of the feat that was on the brink of achieving is playing its part in the complacencies suffered by the team this season.

Speaking to talkSport Breakfast (h/t Liverpool Echo), Hamann stresses that a player’s mindset and perspective after losing out so close to the finish line plays a part once the season is over with.

“What they achieved and what they did last year was second to none. I don’t think that will be achieved again, to be within seven days of winning all four trophies and I think that psychologically it was always going to be tough this season.”

Hamann is correct with his assessment as there is no other way to debate the sudden formation of a drop of many key players coupled with playing an insane amount of games, which disrupted the preparations for this season and the result is there for all to see.

Liverpool have been one of the best teams in the world in the last four or five years and maybe the fine margins of last season were the tipping point of a bleak season ahead.

We have seen in the past that sometimes teams fall off instantly after a tremendous season before. Mauricio Pochettino’s reign at Tottenham Hotspur was cut short after reaching a UCL final, same with Brendan Rodgers when he was at Liverpool.

There are countless examples of top teams suffering from a psychological drop after a great season and it gets hard to recover from the nausea of what could have been for many players.

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