Calvin Bassey Allowed Matip To Score Liverpool’s Late Goal – Owen

Ex-England forward, Michael Owen has come out to blame defender, Calvin Bassey for not doing enough to prevent Liverpool’s second goal. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, the Nigerian actually kept his eye on Matip during the corner, but he just didn’t do enough to keep the defender at bay before the goal.

Owen added that Bassey clearly let his man get a run on him and that is very unacceptable.

His words, “Look at the players. They are all marking here. This is Fabinho who’s here with Blind.”

“And then apart from that you basically got everybody paired up and it’s Bassey, just watch it slowly [in reference to the playback on the studio’s big screen].”

“Bassey is actually keeping his eye on Matip and eventually, just look through the bodies, he’s [Bassey] the closest one to him [Matip] so it was his man, so as Rio [Ferdinand] said, he [Bassey] simply doesn’t do enough.”

“He lets him get a run on him and you can’t do that.”