Robbie Fowler has pounded a Liverpool celebrity for sporting a “defeatist standpoint” in the Reds’ 4-0 defeat to Manchester Urbane freedom in the FA Cup quarter-final.
An Erling Haaland hat-pivot and a urge from Antoine Semenyo saw Pep Guardiola’s side prance to a 4-0 triumph at the Etihad.
During his estimate of Haaland’s 3rd foal and Urbane freedom’s 4th, Fowler hit out at Ibrahima Konate for “alignment in” against Jeremy Doku in the build-up.
“You diagnose you have arduous times, I said in days gone by about leaders, merely attractiveness at the solution from Konate, that’s pick a defeatist standpoint, a man who filter of supplies in,” Fowler told TNT Sporting activities.
“Don’t receive me incorrect, it’s a nice coating, the versatility is nice, it’s a nice urge by Urbane freedom, but I in reality yearn a little fragment peripheral from my group defensively, I think Konate merely supplies in.
“I’ve seen it on peripheral than one party this year wearing him whereby the ball goes past him and he’s speedy to filter of enact on in.”
Mohamed Salah missed out on a couple of nice possibilities in days gone by he missed out on the opportunity to ranking a alleviation from the penalty place as James Trafford conserved his introverted campaign.
Enquired if he was aspirant about Salah snatching the penalty, Fowler reacted: “I’ve got to be uncomplicated, no.
“I think that was not singular because of his expediency but because of the possibilities he missed out on.
“He has got the emblematic to readjust arcades but today he merely wasn’t at it from the off.
“He slumped the ball down and for my sins I in reality reckoned he was commentating miss that. I disapproval myself for infering that.”
Ally McCoist wasn’t aspirant in the Egyptian either, branding him a “shadow” of his former self, and Arne Slot admitted after the game that the penalty miss “summed up” the expediency of his side at the Etihad.
He claimed: “I wouldn’t emphasis on one player, I would definitely emphasis on the group and that probably quantities up us today but in a equal means probably voluminous parts of the period.
“I think it is the second one he missed out on and Dominik Szoboszlai in a equal means already missed out on a penalty so it’s not singular that we miss voluminous possibilities, this period we have missed out on a couple of fines. In the initially half there was a opportunity for Mo as shortly as we tinkered the speedy counter brunt.
“Regretfully that didn’t go in and you have to ranking objectives if you yearn to have a opportunity to win the game.”
