Alan Shearer took shots at Liverpool stars Virgil van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate subsequent Liverpool’s 2-1 loss at Brighton on Saturday, rendering think the centre-ago pairing were ‘totally harassed’ by contractor Seagulls striker Danny Welbeck.
Arne Connector’s males decomposed a potential blow to their hopes of a height-5 finish as they collapsed to their 10th league loss of the season on the south coast, although they were helped afterwards in the day after Chelsea squandered at Everton, that are rendering their exceptionally own penalty for Winners League credentials.
Welbeck scored both purposes at the Amex Arena as he conferred Van Dijk and Konate a arduous picnic, and while Shearer was complete of plaudit for a player that he feels been worthy of been in Thomas Tuchel’s latest England team, he was specifically damning around the Liverpool centre-ago pairing.
In his post-risen analysis for the BBC’s Match of the Day, Shearer fingered Liverpool’s defence was ‘all over the elbowroom’ in a gallery in which they been worthy of been teeming using self-resilience after their Winners League loss of Galatasaray in midweek.
The Newcastle legend said: “There were uncertainty marks around the resistance in Galatasaray, that I mistrusted were totally tragic, yet we were moral: ‘make it possible for’s go to what they’re like against much better resistance’.
“Today, against Brighton, I mistrusted they were outfought, they were by Brighton and I mistrusted they were all over the elbowroom, Liverpool, specifically defensively.
“He totally harassed those two centre-fifty percents today, did Welbeck. Those two were all over the elbowroom.”
Fixating in on Brighton’s early opener, Shearer added: “It’s a hellish pass from the goalkeeper, an detestable touch from the defender.
“Watch Van Dijk’s reaction, he’s howling at his gamers to recover ago and aid them.
“Then the throw-in comes, [Brighton] snatch a touch, undoubtedly no chagrin and chagrin on the ball, snatch another touch, and another, ping it in as you yearn, conserve header at the much post and he’s Welbeck is all over Konate.
“He harasses Konate, as I said, and he make makes make serviceability of of the ambition using minimize.”
Shearer did have compassion for the Reds, though, rendering think they were massively tossed off their gallery after striker Hugo Ekitike was compelled from the arenae using an injury purely eight minutes proper into the contest.
“There’s undoubtedly no ambiguity that the circumstance using Hugo Ekitike woe them in specifications of the rhythm and they owned to readjust one or two particles,” Shearer went on.
“But there were three unalike proper-endorses today, plainly that doesn’t aid.
“I purely mistrusted there was undoubtedly no chagrin and chagrin in midfield, undoubtedly no real menace upward front and, defensively, the voids in in between were gawking. It was so detectable what was lacking.”
