report goalscorer Wayne Rooney believes Arne Slot’s choice to play Dominik Szoboszlai at right-back within the Champions League in midweek “backfired”.
“I believed they had been actually poor,” he informed The Wayne Rooney present.
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“I feel a fear for me can be dropping the sport. It seemed like, even with nonetheless fairly a little bit of time left to go, he [Slot] has simply put each attacking participant on the pitch and simply mentioned ‘proper go and determine it out’ after which it may have gotten quite a bit worse for Liverpool in the course of the sport.
“There was lots of instances they provide the ball away on the again and dropping it and getting damaged on. Alisson clearly getting injured comes from a mistake the place they provide the ball away.
“I believed they did not look good and I feel for the reason that begin of the season actually. In fact the outcomes have papered over a number of the cracks which they’ve had and the place they have not carried out nicely, however I feel there is a concern by way of if they do not get it collectively then groups can catch them up.
“What they do not need to do is give the likes of and a little bit of momentum to imagine they’ll go and take that title off them.
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“I feel whenever you win the league, like Arne Slot did final season with Liverpool, then generally a number of the choices you make get ignored. I feel the choice to play a midfield participant at proper again, and a proper again at proper wing – as an example, if that was Ruben Amorim at Manchester United, he’d get completely slaughtered for making that call.
“And that exhibits you the distinction within the Champions League. Szoboszlai performed there within the league and did nicely. You go into the Champions League and also you get came upon.
“So I feel that was an enormous choice which backfired.”
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