Former Liverpool star Jamie Carragher has revealed his opinion on the misfiring Liverpool attacking trio of Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah.
Jurgen Klopp’s Reds are currently enjoying a great start to the new Premier League campaign as they sit in 2nd place on the table just two points behind leaders Manchester City. The Merseyside giants look like the closest side that can rival Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City to the Premiership but have not yet hit their top gear in the attacking department.
The Reds are grinding out results with their usual free-flowing attack far from their best as Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah have not really managed to click together this term. And ex-Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher believes that the FIFA World Cup in the summer is showing its effects out in the front three.
While speaking to talkSPORT the 40 year old Englishman revealed that the Liverpool attack isn’t blowing opposition teams away like they used to and Brazilian superstar Roberto Firmino is mainly feeling the fatigue but the midfield also need to step up, “The attack isn’t producing those performances but I think you have to give them a bit of slack, the fact the three attackers that normally play have all been to the World Cup and Firmino especially has looked like he is feeling the effects, I still think Salah has still got the goals in him that you expect, I think Mane has been the best performer out of the three in general play really but there’s something lacking in midfield”
Carragher went on to compare Liverpool and Manchester City’s attack and highlighted the main difference, “I think the reason why you give them a little of slack is because they don’t have the most creative midfield behind them who are going to be creating chances for them constantly the way you think City have Silva, De Bruyne, the other Silva also. Liverpool doesn’t have those players so the front three at the time if they do not score or getting chances when they do they have to create them themselves with the combination between them, which they can do as we have seen it.”
Liverpool has tightened up at the back and even though the attackers are not firing on all cylinders, they have spent big on midfielders but aren’t using them properly. Klopp needs to sort out his best midfield options because Alex Oxlade Chamberlain’s injury is a big blow.
