Sky Sports pundit Jamie Carragher believes that his former club Liverpool FC will now gladly take a top-four finish in the Premier League this season on the back of their recent run of form in domestic football.
Jurgen Klopp’s men were initially to be in the reckoning to secure a second successive top-flight crown after last campaign’s heroics but since the backend of 2020, the Merseysiders have failed to hit the ground running with consistent results.
A shock loss to Brighton at the Anfield pitch on Wednesday night prevented Liverpool FC from closing the gap on table-toppers Manchester City at the summit and with the Reds now sitting in the fourth spot in the top-flight standings, former club man Carragher says that Klopp and Co. would gladly settle for a top-four finish come the end of the 2020-21 campaign.
‘Andy Robertson has come out and said Liverpool aren’t in the title race, and I think that is the right way to look at it at the moment,’ said Carragher, as quoted by the Daily Mail.
‘Liverpool have to be looking at the top four positions, and to say the obvious, take each game as it comes because the form is so down.
‘There are so many changes to the team that you are never quite sure what it’s going to be. Alisson was out at the last minute against Brighton and Liverpool are still waiting for players to come back.
‘So I think from now, if you were to offer Liverpool a top-four finish they would take that and shake on it.
‘That should be the mindset for Liverpool because that is what they are aiming for at the moment.’
The midweek result at home turf meant Klopp’s side now trail Manchester City by seven points despite the latter having played a game less than their arch-foes ahead of Sunday’s high-billed meeting between the two English heavyweights.
