Liverpool certainly haven’t had the campaign that we were expecting and, despite a recent return to better results, our hopes of reaching the top four have been hugely damaged by our form earlier in the season.
Speaking about the Reds’ soft underbelly, ex-Red John Aldridge said: “I think teams this season are not scared of us as much as they used to be.
“They get us a little bit from the start whereas in the last five years, they have been tentative and scared to go forward because we were that good going forward.
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“But because we were getting beaten early on in the season they went, ‘just show them that we are not scared, we are not intimidated and have a go’.
“And we have succumbed too many times.”
It’s probably a fair case to make about the current team but given our five-game unbeaten streak and three victories on the bounce, Jurgen Klopp is clearly working on making us harder to beat.
With Trent Alexander-Arnold being better protected defensively by the work ethic of Curtis Jones, we look to be finding a way to be feared once again.
You can watch Aldridge’s comments via LFC TV:
