Thierry Henry has suggested that Liverpool dropped their standards in the Premier League at the end of last season.
The 2020/21 campaign has been a really disappointing one for Jurgen Klopp’s men. They have been hampered by injuries, but results on the pitch have been poor as they currently sit outside of the top four.
A run of six straight defeats at Anfield saw them drop down to eighth in the Premier League. But their positive away form continued on Monday night as they beat Wolves at Molineux.
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With their rivals dropping points, Liverpool moved up to sixth with this victory. They are now five points behind fourth-placed Chelsea.
Speaking during Monday Night Football, as cited by The Liverpool Echo, Henry suggested that their fringe players have failed to step up this season:
“There are two paths you can take. You can look for valid excuses, at the end of the day we all know if Van Dijk, Joe Gomez had been fit, would they have been fighting with Man City? I don’t actually know but I’d like to think they’d be higher.
“The reality is those guys aren’t there. You’ve got guys in the squad that haven’t stepped up, they need to step up. Not the usual suspects, the guys that ‘okay these guys aren’t here, you need to come in’ so they can win games.
“Right now, the two things they don’t do well at the minute. Between the two boxes, coaches over-complicate things, but you need to be good in the box of the opponent and your own box and at the minute, they are not being the most efficient there.
“You can have the best striker in the world and the best goalkeeper, at the minute they are low in confidence, they need to find a way to find points and quickly. They’re still Liverpool, a big club, the impact of the town waiting for the title for so long, yes, injuries, but maybe in a way, everyone was expecting the same season.
“It doesn’t happen like that. Their season for me, started when they mathematically won it. Then they started to drop their standards, the way they finished the season, conceding cheap goals, not fighting for each other.”
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