Man United’s De Ligt on Liverpool weak hyperlinks
Matthijs de Ligt celebrates together with his Manchester United teammates (Picture by Michael Regan/Getty Photographs)
Manchester United defender Matthijs de Ligt has made the large declare that he and his teammates felt Liverpool’s full-backs had been weak hyperlinks of their recreation immediately.
De Ligt spoke to Viaplay after the sport, a shock 2-1 win for Man Utd at Anfield, and it appears there was some type of plan beforehand to get at Liverpool’s full-backs.
Arne Slot began with summer season signing Milos Kerkez at left-back, whereas fellow new arrival Jeremie Frimpong didn’t even make it into the beginning XI as Conor Bradley performed forward of him.
Both means, that is undeniably a significant drop-off from when Liverpool had Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andrew Robertson each at their peaks.
Matthijs de Ligt’s damning feedback about Liverpool’s full-backs
De Ligt spoke after the sport about United being conscious of Liverpool’s full-backs as the key weak point of their squad, which is fairly damning after they would’ve been seen as thrilling new signings after they first joined in the summertime.
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“We knew that Liverpool have weaknesses. And that’s their full-backs,” the Netherlands worldwide stated after the sport.
That is definitely an enormous drawback for LFC, who simply don’t have a look at all stable on the again this season, with the brand new full-backs maybe an enormous a part of the issue.
What’s gone unsuitable for Liverpool’s full-backs?
Frimpong appeared like he ought to be a wonderful signing to interchange Alexander-Arnold at right-back, however he’s rapidly fallen out of favour with Slot.
The Dutchman didn’t begin immediately as Bradley received the nod, whereas even Dominik Szoboszlai has crammed in in that place a number of occasions to this point this season.
Kerkez, in the meantime, shone at former membership Bournemouth however has discovered this step up troublesome, so maybe it’s time for Slot to convey Andrew Robertson again into the beginning line up.
