Former Red and pundit Jamie Carragher has expressed his frustration about Liverpool forward Cody Gakpo after his performance against Manchester United.
The Merseysiders faced Manchester United in one of the fiercest clashes of the PL on Sunday evening. However, the match ended in an anticlimactic 0-0 draw, which saw the hosts drop to the 2nd position in the points table.
Despite being the favorites to win the match by a considerable margin, the Reds failed to score any goal, and Coyle secured their foothold the 1st place even further.
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Although the Anfield giants produced many goalscoring opportunities with 2.68 xG, they could not convert them. Furthermore, the attack is the fault, which did not trouble Andre Onana enough.
Cody Gakpo against Manchester United was underwhelming
Mohamed Salah has been known as a selfish player at LFC for the last few years. The Egyptian’s desire to be the match winner every time has created many complications in the recent past.
However, he has been stripped of that title, and Cody Gakpo has taken his place. The Dutch attacker had options at his right and left, but he gave away possession by taking poor shots twice.
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This angry and frustrated Jamie Carragher, who exclaimed while commentating,
“No! Gakpo, that is so poor. I’ve said this about Mo Salah, he’s been locked out on the edge of the box so far and he’s still thinking about shooting even though it’s clearly not on. Just move the ball on, don’t force chances!
A little bit of quality and Liverpool have a chance but Gakpo just shoots, he’s got Joe Gomez on the outside who has made a really good run, just pass it. [Curtis] Jones isn’t happy, his Liverpool teammates need to tell him.”
But the former PSV man was not the only one who was poor last evening. Mohamed Salah was also criticized for his greed in becoming a match-winner. The 31-year-old tried to cut the ball onto his left foot to shoot rather than crossing the ball into a dangerous area.
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On the other hand, the out-of-form Darwin Nunez also was not threatening enough. The Uruguayan striker made a few in-behind runs, which yielded no positive outcome. He then dropped deep to link up with other players, but was not fruitful as the 24-year-old misplaced several passes.
Liverpool have to improve their offense if they wish to complete this season with another PL title in their name.
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