Matthijs de Ligt celebrates together with his Manchester United teammates (Photograph 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 have been weak hyperlinks of their recreation in the present day.
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 manner, 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 once they would’ve been seen as thrilling new signings once they first joined in the summertime.
“We knew that Liverpool have weaknesses. And that’s their full-backs,” the Netherlands worldwide stated after the sport.
That is actually a giant downside for LFC, who simply don’t have a look at all stable on the again this season, with the brand new full-backs maybe a giant a part of the issue.
What’s gone fallacious for Liverpool’s full-backs?
Frimpong seemed like he ought to be a high quality signing to switch Alexander-Arnold at right-back, however he’s shortly fallen out of favour with Slot.
The Dutchman didn’t begin in the present day as Bradley received the nod, whereas even Dominik Szoboszlai has stuffed in in that place a number of instances to date 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 carry Andrew Robertson again into the beginning line up.
