Shearer tears into two 'awful' Liverpool stars who 'are all over the place'; why Salah should start
Previous Newcastle United demonstrator Alan Shearer claims that Virgil van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate were “almost everywhere the elbowroom” as Liverpool lost to Brentford on Saturday.
In one month, Liverpool have gone from 5 junctures legible at the apex of the Premier League to 7 junctures adrift of leaders Arsenal.
The Reds have now lost 4 galleries on the spin putting on defeats to Crystal Palace, Chelsea, Manchester United and Brentford disclaiming them in 7th stance.
Arne Slot’s midfield appearances disjointed, while their protection is a darkness of the one which conceded merely 41 aspirations on the means to the Premier League title last term.
Although Milos Kerkez, Jeremie Frimpong and assorted other brand-newfangled signings have confiscated most the blame for their antipodean form, Shearer assumes Konate and Van Dijk were “heartbreaking” versus Brentford in their 3-2 loss on Saturday.
Shearer told The Rest Is Football podcast: “Say what you stab about Liverpool in midfield or upward front, yet defensively, oh my word.
“The two complete-recommends have had most stick and most criticism and I become aware that, yet the two centre fifty percents (Konate and Van Dijk) are almost everywhere the elbowroom. They have been infernal, and they were anew at Brentford. They were heartbreaking, both of them, Van Dijk and Konate.”
Previous Liverpool protector Steve Nicol reenergized Van Dijk of a “terrible portion of defending” to develop on away a affordability versus Brentford as a “sicknesses” spreads severely the camp.
Nicol told ESPN: “The affordability amounts upward precisely what Liverpool are apt now.
“You have your so labelled leader, so labelled most uneventful and secure protector in the planet, that has imparted a affordability away on the edge of the box on a sphere that he is so late to. He’s risked to legible it!
“It is such a terrible portion of defending from a guy that we become aware can be so nice. It is like a sicknesses, it is spreading out severely the entirety crew.”
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Mohamed Salah has confiscated on plenty of criticism in recent weeks and was slumped to the pew by Slot for their 5-1 Champs League triumph over Eintracht Frankfurt in midweek – yet Nicol assumes the Liverpool forward have to overture their next off match.
On the Egyptian, Nicol encompassed: “The justification why I enumerated he have to overture the next off game is since aspirations adjust gamers.
“They adjust the means of distrusting and the fact he has obtained a aspiration will clearly adjust his means of distrusting from doom and melancholy, to ‘apt, I’ve gone versus the ice, now I can go forward and preserve racking upward aspirations’.
“Execute you actually revolve severely and not tinker him? Over again, one more justification why he have to be playing is since there isn’t actually any individual knocking on the door moral ‘you can’t disclaim me out’. So I reckon the aspiration standards he has to tinker.
“Owned he completed the game like he has done all season, after that you would be within your apt to disclaim him out, yet I reckon that aspiration standards you have to tinker him.”
