Jamie Carragher says Liverpool want a holding midfielder and a prime defender to problem for Premier League title once more, including Darwin Nunez have to be extra scientific.
Luis Diaz scored an emotional late equaliser for Liverpool, cancelling out Tahith Chong’s opener for Luton as a entertaining Tremendous Sunday led to a 1-1 draw.
The Reds struggled to attain towards the Hatters – a mix of excellent defending and wasted probabilities – and have now did not win any of their final 4 away video games towards newly-promoted groups.
Talking on Sky Sports activities after the sport, Carragher pointed to the areas the place Liverpool can enhance and says they aren’t but able to win one other Premier League trophy.
“Liverpool nonetheless aren’t nearly as good as Man Metropolis at stopping counter-attacks,” the previous defender stated.
“Liverpool are a group who dominate possession, they’ve loads of the ball, however they don’t seem to be fairly nearly as good as Man Metropolis off the ball so there are extra turnovers and so they lose the ball.
“Opponents do appear to search out areas much more to and assault and get in behind Liverpool. Luton did not have the standard to essentially punish them, aside from the objective we noticed.
“Liverpool in midfield are improved from what we noticed final season, however they nonetheless have not acquired a prime holding midfielder.
“(Alexis) MacAllister is not a prime holding midfielder. He is good on the ball by way of receiving, however defensively, he finds it actually robust and he lacks a little bit of tempo for that place.
“Within the again 4, Liverpool may do with not a lot a participant for a particular place, however only a nice defender who can virtually play in a few positions.
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The Tremendous Sunday panel mirror on an ’emotional second’ for Luis Diaz, because the Liverpool winger revealed a message for his father who’s lacking after being kidnapped in Colombia
“They went with (Joe) Gomez [on Sunday] at left-back as a result of they thought he could be stronger defensively. I feel Liverpool may do with a participant in that place on the opposite aspect at right-back and possibly launch Trent (Alexander-Arnold) into midfield.
“Liverpool aren’t able to win the league. Jurgen Klopp and Liverpool supporters know that proper now.
“They wish to get again into the highest 4. When it comes to difficult once more, I feel they want a holding midfielder and a top-class defender.”
‘Nunez improved, however have to be extra scientific’
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Jamie Carragher says Darwin Nunez must be extra cynical after failing to take a number of alternatives within the match towards Luton
Jurgen Klopp advised Sky Sports activities earlier than the journey to Kenilworth Highway that Nunez’s enchancment this season is ‘thrilling’ – however the ahead was unable to attain any of his 9 photographs.
One incident within the second half noticed him fireplace vast from mere yards out, which is able to add gasoline to the hearth for his detractors.
Whereas there have been positives for Liverpool’s No 9, Carragher has referred to as on Nunez to be extra scientific in some moments and preserve himself away from turning into a meme on-line.
“There’s a lot to admire about Darwin Nunez,” he advised Sky Sports activities.
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Darwin Nunez misses an excellent likelihood to offer Liverpool the lead when it regarded prefer it was simpler for him to attain
“He is had an amazing season thus far, however he has moments like that [his miss in the second half] the place the people who find themselves not possibly enormous followers of his can level at that.
“He has to vary these conditions like that. There was a second within the first half the place he may have had a unique kind of end and he is acquired to carry that to his sport – be a bit extra delicate fairly than placing your foot by it each time.
“He is harmful, he is a handful, he is by no means going to be probably the most scientific. We all know that now, he is been in our league virtually 18 months.
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Darwin Nunez clips the body of the Luton objective as he goes near giving Liverpool the lead at Kenilworth Highway
“However there is not any doubt there’s been an enormous enchancment this season – he is Liverpool’s No 9.
“However he simply acquired to cease the memes on social media and folks trying on the huge probabilities that he misses. He is acquired to be extra scientific in these conditions.”
Liverpool boss Klopp additionally performed down the miss, telling Sky Sports activities: “It is simply considered one of today that is utterly regular.
“It was offside a couple of times, so it would not have been a objective and so they’re not essential. The one ball Mo (Salah) squares with a header, I feel Mo can already do it himself.
“The primary half one onto the crossbar is very well executed, simply unfortunate. And we had different moments.
“When he has greater than 50 per cent [of Liverpool shots] it speaks for him that he was concerned in all the pieces, however then one thing wasn’t 100 per cent proper as a result of with the standard we’ve got we’ve got to combine it extra up.
“It is superb. It is not our dream outcome however we’re all sufficiently old to simply accept issues.”
