Trent Alexander-Arnold

[Fosterbloke]

Fair enough, I gave up after the second goal.

[Buzzo]

That's pretty harsh. He had a tough game but out of his depth? Come on. He made a few good interceptions. The only issue is that he was a bit nervous and second half he couldn't cope with Mendy but this could have been due to the change in system.

It was a bad game for him to have a bad game. His positioning was shocking.

He'll learn though.

[Exiled_red]

I think that games like these are key in young defenders development, the game has exposed an area of his game that looks like a weakness, other teams and players will try to exploit this weakness, it's up to him to ensure that it he develops this side of his game to ensure that it doesn't become a problem.

Obviously he was up against a very good player yesterday and that won't always be the case, but there is something for him to learn from

[Pablo]

Mendy was absolutely brilliant. What a player. Can't really fault Trent for that. Hopefully he'll learn from it.

[gratziani]

Goes to show pay for quality like Mendy and sorts your left back out for years

[danperkins]

Goes to show pay for quality like Mendy and sorts your left back out for years

we haven't been able to nail that position down for a long time now, stop gap after stop gap.

[Chris]

Goes to show pay for quality like Mendy and sorts your left back out for years

He was atrocious defensively, if that was Moreno giving Salah/oppo winger all that room.....! But yeah, he come alive when the game was dead no doubt.

[frank the tank]

I thought that Cituy were crazy for spending so much on full backs (still can't believe what they spent on Walker) but Mendy was brilliant.

Trent was a bit of a car crash alright - started to go ****e when the fat cunt of a ref talked to him about his throw-ins.

I would say this though - if we were a top side, then our experienced pros would have recognised this and rectified it early on. Matip and Henderson should have taken it upon themselves to help the lad out with some more in-game coaching. In reality there was no leadership.

I thought the red card was very harsh - don't give a **** what the "experts" say. In reality, you just ****in KNOW that there will be 3 or 4 of them against us this season that don't get red cards. But a top team would have regrouped, held their own, defend well and to be honest, waste some ****in time. A top team would have kept it 1-0 until 10 mins to go and then had a go themselves in the last ten minutes. But we capitulated. Badly.

Matip, Klavan and Trent all played a bad game. So did Henderson. And Gini. Moreno doesn't get mentioned but the feeling I get with him is that it is a pleasant surprise if he doesn't cost us a game (he never really helps win us a game either so I don't really see the point in him).

People have said that Maguire would have been a good addition. To be honest, it would have been a no-brainer because of his age - the way the market has gone, then we could have sold him for more next season even if he didn't kick a ball for us.

Also, I thought Mignolet couldn't really be faulted for any of the goals (although kick out was ****e for the first goal). It's funny, I thought Karius was dodgy v Arsenal yet kept a clean sheet in a 4-0 win......Mignolet was okay but we lost 5-0!!!

[Irishnev]

He was atrocious defensively, if that was Moreno giving Salah/oppo winger all that room.....! But yeah, he come alive when the game was dead no doubt.

The first 30 mins or so before they scored we were killing them down his side, Salah got behind him a number of times. Once the game opened up and we gave up he wasn't being tracked coming forward and looked ace.

credit where it is due though - the quality of his delivery was excellent.

[danperkins]

Kid had an absolute nightmare alright, it will happen from time to time .. hopefully doesn't hurt his confidence. Mendy's delivery is outstanding, never stops running either.

[Doc_Piptorious]

TAA had a bad game, but it was also the sort of game/performance where he needed a senior pro to gee him up and give him a bit of on pitch encouragement.

[danperkins]

TAA had a bad game, but it was also the sort of game/performance where he needed a senior pro to gee him up and give him a bit of on pitch encouragement.

unfortunately we have no leaders in our team to do that sort of thing.

[kev776]

This will do the lad's character the world of good, everything before this was rosy, his goal against Hoff elevated him higher than he should have been.

Hopefully Klopp rebuilds him stronger and wiser, he will be fine.

[danperkins]

This will do the lad's character the world of good, everything before this was rosy, his goal against Hoff elevated him higher than he should have been.

Hopefully Klopp rebuilds him stronger and wiser, he will be fine.

reality check good for his mentality and experience.

[gratziani]

Problem with City and us is both our managers love the full backs going forward and being part of the attacking all the time ,

Sometimes they leave other players exposed which is what happened with Ottamendi

Feel like this is when a midfielder who can read the game would be able to assist TAA more and get him some cover. De Bruyne and Mendy are going to tear a few teams apart this year down that side.

With hindsight felt that Milner as right back would have been a good call as he knows when to foul the man , go long etc , felt we were more solid last year with him as a full back.