Liverpool are defensively the worst in the league, only because of Alisson are they not lower, thinks club legend

Liverpool fans are raging. Their beloved club is ninth in the Premier League at the halfway point of the season and already ten points behind the Top 4. Even former England international Jamie Carragher has rushed to criticise the Reds.

Andrew Robertson, Virgil van Dijk, Joel Matip/Ibrahima Konaté, Trent Alexander-Arnold. It would be hard to find a better defensive team in England in recent years. It’s been the pride of Liverpool, but this year it’s turning into a pile of misfortune and blunders.

Only Arnold, who was making crazy misses defensively, was not doing well at the start of the season. However, the rampant attack was putting down one goal after another and the English international’s blunders were hidden by it.

Still, the performance cost him a place in the England squad for the World Cup in Qatar. But after the Arab World Championship, van Dijk was injured.

And it affected the Reds more than the club’s fans imagined. Six and a half halves without van Dijk – nine goals conceded. Specifically from Manchester City (3), Wolves (2), Brighton (3) and one for the second half of the Brentford game.

Former Liverpool star and current Sky Sports pundit Jamie Carragher even called Liverpool’s defensive back four the worst in the league: ” Defensively they are the worst in the league right now. Luckily they have the best goalkeeper which makes them not so far down the table,” Carragher said on Twitter.

And Carragher wasn’t exaggerating, at least when you look at the numbers. The performance against Brentford was one big mess. Down 1: 3, the other two goals were disallowed for offside, but the important thing is that Liverpool conceded four times in a single game from centres in the penalty area.

Offside doesn’t change the fact that the defenders of a top club can’t afford such laxity. Two goals from an offensively nil Wolverhampton is at least something to ponder, the three from Brighton is understandable given the Seagulls’ phase, although a huge embarrassment for a club of Liverpool’s calibre.

Source: Sky Sports