Liverpool‘s Trent Alexander-Arnold didn’t look a happy man on Sunday.
Jurgen Klopp took him off on 59 minutes of the Reds’ FA Cup defeat at Brighton, when it was 1-1.
Prior to that, Alexander-Arnold hadn’t been having a very stellar game for Liverpool.
But a former professional at Anfield, David Thompson, has suggested that two other players were at fault for this, too.
Thompson said on Twitter that Alexander-Arnold should give Mohamed Salah and Naby Keita an earful for ‘pretending’ to track back at the Amex Stadium, leaving him exposed.
As brilliant as Alexander-Arnold is going forward, defensively he is, at times, a liability.
And that’s exactly why Klopp should also speak to Salah and Keita, if he agrees that Alexander-Arnold’s frailties versus the Seagulls stem from other people not doing their defensive duties.
When you’re not great in defence, you desperately need support and according to Thompson, Alexander-Arnold got zero of it from his colleagues on Sunday.
If that’s the case then it makes you wonder if the Liverpool players are that bothered anymore, which is a very ominous sign and, really, the results don’t prove that theory very wrong.
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