Salah, van Dijk are among 10 Liverpool players who have suffered a troublesome injury this season

After Liverpool’s fourth defeat on the bounce for Manchester United (?!) at Anfield (?!) on Sunday, Virgil van Dijk clearly listed the Reds’ players who have suffered a setback from their title-winning campaign in the current crisis of the season, considering he’s named 10 Liverpool players and been shamed.

We’ve included the new signings, comparing what they’re doing for Liverpool against the performances that convinced them to be signed by Liverpool, and narrowing the list down to those who have featured over 150 minutes in all competitions.

Florian Wurtz

It can’t feel great to start the season as a shiny new £100m player in August, that everyone was looking at as a Liverpool coup even at that price, to see his new side from the bench come October.

Even when Liverpool secured his signature ahead of Bayern Munich, despite this Wirtz Would be an excellent addition, not many people would have suggested that what the Reds need behind their title win is a new No.10.

The answer to the question ‘Why sign Florian Wertz?’ Inevitably based around the idea that he was a generational talent not to be missed, rather than that he was the best player in the position Liverpool needed to recruit.

And while Jurgen Klopp has warned those of us who criticize Wertz that we will soon “eat our words”, we now wonder how memorable the change slot will be for Liverpool’s style and system to inspire those insults to us.

Abraham Connett

Back to his old self when he scored a try against Manchester United Learn and coax the “baby” along with the gamebut he has put in a number of questionable displays this season, which at times have been rude.

He never looked like a particularly natural footballer, and he avoided the confused footwork and collapse at any moment with the aplomb that is now a standard feature of Conte’s game.

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Dominique Sozboslai

The least underrated player on this list – in fact, and it’s probably a stretch to claim he’s the least culpable for his negligible decline.

Czesbyszalai must have wondered at the start of the season, as we all did, how Ern Slott could fit him and Florian Wertz into the same team. He would be content and proud to play as many minutes (990) alongside Van Dijk, but was not counting on the disappointment of a slot to include him in the starting XI seeing him shoehorned in at right-back.

As he plays as an attacking midfielder on the right wing, he looks like an attacking midfielder playing at right back.

Conor Bradley

Trent Alexander-Arnold was named heir-apparent after some very impressive displays last term, including a breakout game against Real Madrid that saw him Kiel before slipping Kylian Mbappe into his pocketAfter Liverpool signed Jeremy Frampong to fill his right-back spot, Bradley is now trying so hard to establish himself as the main man in a position that he seems to be on the verge of a red card in every game he plays.

The 22-year-old has picked up five yellow cards in 390 minutes of football this season and was hauled off at half-time against both Crystal Palace and Chelsea. Mate, mate.

Jeremy Frampong

We wonder if Arne Slott has at any point asked Richard Hughes why he signed him as a right wing back. There is literally no team in the Premier League as suited to Frampong as their right-back.

The Dutchman hasn’t started a Premier League game since the opening day victory over Bournemouth, when Slott clearly realized the dangers of playing someone who is more than a full-back behind a guy who doesn’t defend and will never be in Mohamed Salah.

Like Szobszalai, the lack of frimpong isn’t really on him, but whoever thought of his signature made some sense.

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Virgil van Dijk

“We conceded a very sloppy second goal,” Van Dijk said when asked why they lost to Manchester United. Can’t fault his logic – it was the winner – but what about the first goal?

“I think the ball went long, the first header was a United player, the second one by me. My elbow hit the player and he went down and I went down. From that angle, it was difficult for him to score and he did. There was a lot of football to play (and score) and we didn’t.”

We counted three van Dijk errors – Bad headers, lame tackles, rebounds – and four if we include him flattening his own player. Pointing to Brian Mabemo with five vagues. But no responsibility was taken for what was an absolute balls-up from him for that opening goal, nor what followed in what was one of his worst Liverpool performances.

He really needs it “look in the mirror”.

Alexis McAlister

When a team goes from complete control one season to near chaos the next, you have to look at the players most responsible for organizing the game and setting the tempo. And with Ryan Grunbach’s level high this term, the finger of blame has to be pointed at McAlister.

Perhaps due to an obscene workload for club and country, as well as a pre-season injury that set him back, he is currently playing like a very old 26-year-old.

Milos Kirkes

We don’t know if it’s his inability to take strategic direction on the board, execute it, or perhaps poor leadership of the slot (though we doubt it) but Kerkes clearly hasn’t got much of an indication of where he’s supposed to be at any given time. Or what he has to do.

At one point in a Manchester United game he ran a full 60 yards to charge Sunny Lemmons into goal, presumably. After just 12 games to be ready to fulfill the widely held belief that he is not cut out to play for Liverpool.

Alexander Issac

My ever-theoretical great-grandmother must have informed Isaac that this fall from grace was on his rear end. Force migration of tools Is his “guardian angel” function, suggesting that the benevolent messenger acts more as a courier of karmic justice than a winged friend perched on your right shoulder to guide and protect you?

Slott sharpened the knives for us ahead of the United game, announcing his belated pre-season, and the 26-year-old presented himself for the Jebs by missing a golden chance, squandering another and doing little else.

Muhammad Salah

Last season’s dizzying highs and the biggest rookie since the last seven seasons.

The general advice that this age has resulted in a decline in the level of a 33-year-old In this way An extraordinary misfortune. advice The Premier League has gone from the deadliest forward, a man who finished fourth in the Ballon d’Or, to someone who kicks the ball with the wrong side of his boot.

This is clearly down to a combination of factors, including the departure of Trent Alexander-Arnold, a change in Liverpool style to go along with the strengths of Wirtz and others. may be His age, though we doubt it, or the pleasure given a huge new contract, which we doubt even more.

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