It’s not been the perfect of seasons for Liverpool collectively, and it’s additionally been a poor 2022/23 marketing campaign for one or two people.
Not too way back, the Reds’ fashion of play was being lauded as had been the gamers and supervisor that had been executing it, however how rapidly issues change in soccer.
With solely a handful of video games now left till the top of the season, the Reds have little prospect of stepping into the Champions League and solely an affordable likelihood of creating the Europa League if outcomes go their method.
It’s totally potential that some gamers have change into complacent and brought their eye off the ball, as a result of how else do you clarify {that a} group that had been prime of European soccer just a few seasons again and who had gained their first English top-flight title in over three a long time at the moment are caught in eighth place and determined for factors.
One participant that hasn’t appeared himself for some whereas now’s right-back Trent Alexander-Arnold, and maybe that’s why Jurgen Klopp appeared to have moved him slightly additional ahead in opposition to Arsenal.
Journalist, Dean Jones instructed Give Me Sport:
“I’m instructed they (Liverpool) are trying extra for competitors for Alexander-Arnold than a direct alternative. That is smart at this stage.
“It might be tough for him to take in the event that they had been to go and spend £50m on a right-back as a substitute of someplace between £20m and £30m.
“It’s a troublesome second for them, however the one approach to get Alexander-Arnold to step it up a gear is that if he has that degree of competitors.”
He additionally famous in a separate Give Me Sport report that:
“Alexander-Arnold most likely seems at different gamers like Reece James and the roles they’re allowed to occupy.
“A part of him should really feel he would thrive rather more in a job like that.
“He bought away with it when Liverpool beat everyone, they usually had been all the time on prime of the sport and all the time had the ball.”
If Trent is as much as the problem of getting competitors for locations, then it actually shouldn’t be an excessive amount of of an issue for the participant to realign his focus onto the issues that matter – or face the results.
