Liverpool Forward Were Useless Against Chelsea – Gary Neville

Manchester United legend Gary Neville has blasted Liverpool forwards after the Reds fell to their third consecutive defeat in all competitions with a 2-1 defeat away at Chelsea. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, Mohamed Salah, Florian Wirtz and Cody Gakpo were absolutely useless in the closing moments of the fixture at Stamford Bridge, and their giving the ball away repeatedly didn’t help the team’s defenders.

Neville added that Wirtz looked absolutely clueless in the last 15 minutes of the match when the game needed another Caicedo moment to seal the 3 points.

His words, “Games are won by intent, teams that look like they want to win. I’m not saying Liverpool didn’t, they obviously did, but I thought that after they scored I was really disappointed by the level of their performance. A lot has been made of Liverpool’s defensive work, and rightly so, but today that’s not why they’ve lost this game.

They’ve lost this game because in the last 15-20 minutes, their creative players, their players in the final half of the pitch, the midfielders and the forwards who were absolutely useless. They were giving the ball away like you wouldn’t believe.

Gakpo down here, Salah over on that far side; the wastage. Wirtz not knowing how to get into a game in the last 15 minutes when it was there for the taking, and just almost sort of marking Caicedo, I was watching him a lot.”

WOW.

Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club based in Liverpool, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Founded in 1892, the club joined the Football League the following year and has played its home games at Anfield since its formation.

Domestically, the club has won 19 league titles, eight FA Cups, a record nine League Cups and 16 FA Community Shields. In international competitions, the club has won six European Cups, three UEFA Cups, four UEFA Super Cups—all English records—and one FIFA Club World Cup.

The club established itself as a major force in domestic and European football in the 1970s and 1980s, when Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan and Kenny Dalglish, led the club to a combined 11 League titles and four European Cups. Liverpool won two further European Cups in 2005 and 2019 under the management of Rafael Benítez and Jürgen Klopp, respectively; the latter led Liverpool to a 19th league title in 2020, the club’s first during the Premier League era.

Anfield was built in 1884 on land adjacent to Stanley Park. Situated 2 miles (3 km) from Liverpool city centre, it was originally used by Everton before the club moved to Goodison Park after a dispute over rent with Anfield owner John Houlding. Left with an empty ground, Houlding founded Liverpool in 1892 and the club has played at Anfield ever since. The capacity of the stadium at the time was 20,000, although only 100 spectators attended Liverpool’s first match at Anfield.