was left to lament simply how badly issues have modified for within the house of a 12 months and has named who he believes to be the group’s weak hyperlink after they have been in a bruising .
Liverpool have been by their very own supervisor for escaping Paris with simply the two-goal deficit within the tie, with the competitors holders ripping the Reds aside from whistle to whistle.
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Want Doue’s early deflected strike was added to by Khvicha Kvaratskhelia within the second half to offer Liverpool a mountain to climb within the second leg.
Slot took of venture by beginning the sport with a back-five system as a substitute of his regular 4, working within the center with Ibrahima Konate on the proper and Joe Gomez on the left.
Liverpool have been roundly dominated of their Champions League quarter-final first leg (Getty Pictures)
The strategic choice proved ill-fated, with Carragher saying on CBS Sports activities Golazo: “The supervisor has tried one thing however he is obtained it massively fallacious tactically, how he went about it.
“It is easy for me to say that, after the occasion, however that is what we do, we’re pundits, we converse after the occasions within the recreation.
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“They have been really extra open with the again 5 than they might be with the again 4 as a result of they went man-to-man everywhere in the pitch and the three centre-backs needed to cowl the width of the pitch.
“Watching Virgil van Dijk tonight in the midst of the again three… Usually, while you get to a sure age, you suppose, center of a again three, that is good for me, everybody’s in place, you get a little bit of safety in your again 5.
“This was completely different. Defenders have been leaping into midfield. There was nobody to mark. And Van Dijk, at 34 years of age, was having to run in there and run throughout. He could not do it.”
Whereas critics have as soon as once more pointed the finger at Liverpool captain Van Dijk after one other disjointed show, Carragher got here to the defence of the Dutchman and reasonably labelled his defensive colleague Konate as the issue.
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“Folks have criticised Van Dijk this season for his performances and I feel it has been harsh. He performs each recreation,” he mentioned. “The fella subsequent to him has been terrible all season and was poor once more tonight, Konate. He makes a mistake each recreation.
“That is not straightforward to play alongside. I really suppose Van Dijk has been one in all Liverpool’s higher gamers however tonight in that again three, I’ve by no means seen him so uncomfortable in a Liverpool shirt in my life.
Jamie Carragher blasted Ibrahima Konate for his show towards PSG (Getty Pictures)
“I feel he might be pleading with Arne Slot to by no means play that system ever once more as a result of he discovered it so powerful.”
Carragher, evaluating this Liverpool group to the title-winners that got here to the Parc des Princes and gained final season, is struggling to understand the dimensions of the membership’s decline.
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“That was like watching a group from a decrease division,” he mentioned. “The gulf in school was very worrying from a Liverpool standpoint.
“In some methods, it is an ideal consequence because it ought to have been 5 – 6. However the gulf between the 2 groups was completely startling when you think about final season.
“Sure, Liverpool obtained battered at PSG they usually gained 1-0, we all know that. However the second leg at Anfield was a very shut recreation, two high groups.
“Liverpool then go and spend £450m, in all probability much more than PSG spent in the summertime. To see the gulf there’s worrying. You suppose, ‘how’s it obtained to that? How’s it obtained that dangerous?'”