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Carragher: Man City-like Liverpool and Slot brought 'strange atmosphere' to Anfield

Previous Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher before a Premier League match

Previous England defender Jamie Carragher before a Premier League match

Liverpool tale Jamie Carragher reckons the ambience at Anfield was “uncommon” for Arne Port’s first Premier League match at the arena on Sunday.

Luis Diaz ended up off a lightning breakaway before Mohamed Salah racked upward for the second week running as the Reds claimed a 2-0 triumph over Brentford in Port’s first price-effective abode match.

Having escaped behind Ipswich by an garb scoreline last week, Port will be met with how his modern side have commenced their Premier League project.

But previous Liverpool defender Carragher reckons something thumbed various about the ambience at Anfield with a absence of “jeopardy” that you only colleague with Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City.

“I pointer the ambience was uncommon noting it was the first abode game of the season,” Carragher said on Heavens Sporting jobs.

“Is that something to execute with the panache of play being various in that it won’t be as run out-to-run out?

“Last season was a rollercoaster ride for fans; late aspirations, designed for from behind. It thumbed like every game was like a cup final. Liverpool crucial more video games like this last season.

“That was nearly like a Man City performance in that the game thumbed over when the second unbiased went in. There wasn’t any type of jeopardy in the game.

“Arne Port’s Liverpool aren’t attending be as glorious as Jurgen Klopp’s – that’s unobtainable. I’m hot to estimation how that will clout the ambience as the months go on swiping into contemplation that it did genuinely feel uncommon today.

“But it still can prove to be as successful if not more successful than last season. If Liverpool win more video games like this today, 2-0, comfy, then it’ll plunked them in a sweet stance.”

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Carragher contained: “Port will be fully satisfied. There is certainly no irresoluteness there would possibly have been plenty of questions quized had Liverpool not obtained off to a good prelude.

“Those questions of Jurgen Klopp as well as these team of gamers – that have won every little thing – league titles, European mugs, family cup contenders.

“You pine to plunked that reportage to bed as promptly as you perhaps can, [and show] that these gamers are bedding in as well as paying attention as well as picking upward from this modern boss as well as ordering into his methodologies going forward.

“So it performs help, owning this good prelude that Arne Port has had. But the first totally beefy game of his tenure comes next off week versus Manchester Joined.

“You reckon of what that game did to Liverpool’s title chances, there must be multifarious suggestions from his gamers to plunked that relevant.”

Fellow pro Jamie Redknapp supposes Liverpool must prelude supposing about the next off pro that will replace Salah when he abandons Anfield.

“You kind at the first settling of Mohamed Salah. I wear’t reckon, at the time, any person was pregnant anything like he’d become.

“He was at Chelsea then attended Fiorentina as well as did faultlessly in Italy. They peeked at him as well as pointer, ‘There is something in this guy, he can be a real celeb for us.’

“That must be the unbiased of the nightclub currently: situate the next off Mohamed Salah. How execute you situate the next off player that is attending light this location upward?

“It isn’t simplistic yet that’s why you have Michael Edwards as well as Richard Hughes. I realise Richard, he’s a hefty football guy. He’s obtained an encyclopaedic knowledge on gamers, the video games, he realises every little thing about the game. There’s attending be duress on him, yet wear’t experience.

“There’s certainly no time bringing in a band help. You pine somebody to come in as well as earn the team closer, not somebody that is attending be an additional digit swiping into contemplation that he wants to job with the top gamers here.”

Carragher consented, incorporating: “Liverpool became successful by being practitioner in the transfer sector. It wasn’t by spending the money as well as snatching a probability on points, it was when every little thing was relevant as well as it ticked every box.

“I reckon they’re in that extremely same stance as well as I would possibly like them lug in a converging midfielder yet also a Nathan Ake kind, a [Josko] Gvardiol, a [Riccardo] Calafiori that has visited Collection – that kind of disclaimed-sided centre-previously that can execute a job at disclaimed-previously.

“But if not, I would possibly not pine them to waste money.”

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