赢球本该是庆功时刻，利物浦却在赛后被自家分析师泼了冷水。Anfield Index的David Lynch在复盘2-0击败富勒姆的比赛时，把Cody Gakpo最近的状态形容为"fallen off a cliff"——直接从悬崖跌落。这话出自自家阵营，比对手批评刺耳得多。

Lynch的措辞很克制，甚至先说了句"I didn't mind his performance"打底。但紧接着就补刀："there were a few moments of kind of it just wasn't going right"。这种"先扬后抑"的话术，熟悉他风格的人都知道——后面才是重点。搭档Dave Davis更直接，说这又是"another game where he kind of struggled"，本赛季已经重复太多次。

数据层面同样难看。Gakpo的射门转化率被点名"among the lowest in the league"，Lynch还加了一句扎心的观察："his biggest problem he couldn't massively get involved to be honest"。一个前锋"参与不进去"，在利物浦这种高压体系里等于隐形。Davis的总结更毒："often makes the right wrong call or runs into traffic"——该对的时候选错，该冲的时候撞墙。

Lynch试图找补，提到"selfless runs"和"plug gaps"的无球贡献，承认这是"a little bit of a thankless task"。但话锋一转，"Gakpo's a worry for me"——担忧写在了明处。赛季末段，这种"悬崖状态"能不能爬回来，Lynch没给答案，只留了一句："You need them to play better."