One of the issues Liverpool has had to deal with this season is that other teams have studied their players and identified ways to counter them.
They find faults, or how to double up on them or make it easy to play against them. This can happen with any top side, but if you've still got good players, you pass and move and if you've got a good football brain, you still come out on top. That's what teams have done when you repetitively win the league.
But we've been totally caught out. We're so predictable and we have been all season. It started at the end of last season and the manager has got to come up with answers.
The good news for Liverpool is that the league is not great this season, with the likes of Chelsea also struggling for form. With all due respect, Everton are three points behind Liverpool. Then you've got Brentford.
These teams are all vying for European qualification and they've hardly spent compared to Liverpool. Their managers are doing a great job. But with the players at their disposal, Liverpool have fallen far too short. The amount of games we've been beaten in is ridiculous.
There's a some many questions about this Liverpool side and not enough answers.
The Merseyside Derby is on the horizon and as things stand, unless the Reds can get their act together Everton will outfight us and outmuscle us. They've got to realise that. That's what Everton are good at. I was very impressed with them against Chelsea.
Moyesy (David Moyes) knows the score. He's been around the block a few times. He knows what's needed. They do their due diligence, he'll know how to get to Liverpool. If the Reds don't roll their sleeves up they'll come a cropper.
It's not ideal that Liverpool had to play at Saturday lunchtime after competing in the Champions League on Wednesday, but you just have to get on with it.
They're doing that because of the TV deals, and that's why players are on £200,000 a week and the manager is on loads of money as well. The TV revenue pays for that so you've just got to take it on the chin and use it as a mindset. You can't make excuses.
Alexander Isak could be back in action for Liverpool soon and he could bring us something that we don't currently have in the team. What we need is a centre forward who doesn't come off the back four.
We've got a lot of good players and play a lot of good football, but whether it's Hugo Ekitike or Isak, the centre forward doesn't need to come into midfield. He needs to play along the line of the back four.
We don't currently do that. We don't push them back. We want one or two little touches in the midfield area and if no one is getting ahead of them like Wirtz or one of the wingers then the opposition has got nothing to defend.
It's one of the things I think we've been going wrong with all season. You've got to push your opponent back and have a player on their toes. We've got centre-forwards who are coming off that last line and they're not even getting in the box when the ball's coming in. It's something that they really need to rectify.
When I look at Liverpool's Premier League run-in, I think we can win our home games but I can't see us winning an away game. At this present moment in time I just can't see us going to Everton, Man United and Villa and picking up five or six points.
All we can do is hope, but at this moment in time I'm losing all hope!
Finally, the Republic of Ireland are in action on Thursday, when they face the Czech Republic in a World Cup play-off. It's going to be tough but we went to Hungary and did really well. We've got to replicate that. Troy Parrott has been brilliant for us and defensively we've been really good. If we can get past the Czechs at least the final play-off match will be in Dublin. It would be unbelievable if we could get there. It would be brilliant.
The Irish fans are unbelievable and they deserve it.
The Liverpool FC, Tranmere and Republic of Ireland great, Aldo's lively and opinionated weekly column on LFC is a must read for all Reds fans.
