Andy Robertson won’t be the only Liverpool player in need of a long, hard look in the mirror after Fulham humbled their opponents on Saturday.
Nonetheless, the Scotland international played a starring role in what was perhaps the visitors’ most hapless first-half Premier League display in the 2024/25 season.
The Merseysiders conceded three goals in just shy of a quarter of an hour, with the Reds left-back directly contributing to Alex Iwobi’s lead-establishing goal.
Robertson (on a reported £160k-a-week, according to Capology) inexplicably played a lofted ball across the pitch in Liverpool’s third, despite heavy Fulham traffic.
Fulham will take that gift from Andy Robertson 🎁
Alex Iwobi with the finish 🕺 pic.twitter.com/63WWFlMGD3
— Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) April 6, 2025
Jamie Carragher couldn’t believe Andy Robertson error
Jamie Carragher was, quite understandably, almost at a loss for words to explain the Scot’s error.
“What a mess! It is such a poor pass from a player of Robertson’s quality,” the former Red told Sky Sports.
“He then doesn’t make the header and it hits him on the way in.”
Even bearing in mind the former Hull City defender’s mixed form this term, we’re struggling to understand what was going through his mind inviting danger with such a pass.
We do agree with Arne Slot that this was one of several ‘one-off’ errors that we’re unlikely (we hope) to see again anytime soon.
To put it simply, we can’t afford a repeat of this come West Ham’s trip to Anfield next Sunday – and we don’t expect it.
Liverpool need to look to the future
Whilst there’s more than a case to be made for keeping Andy Robertson in the squad for the foreseeable future, we just can’t see a world in which Arne Slot opts to keep the 31-year-old as his first-choice.
Amid ongoing, and what seem to be pretty reliable, links to Bournemouth’s Milos Kerkez, it seems Liverpool are already looking toward the future.
To be absolutely clear, we don’t want our No.26 going anywhere this summer, and we suspect it will be Kostas Tsimikas of our senior left-back options set to be culled this summer.
Ultimately, however, the evidence of the 2024/25 season makes clear we need to seriously consider some ruthless decisions in the summer to build on a likely Premier League title-winning campaign.
Unfortunately, that may very well mean a few fan-favourites will pay the price in the name of progress.
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I fully agree with you in fact I was surprised to see him back in the second half sorry Andy you had a mare
They are well on their way to losing the Prem. They are tired and sloppy and not being rested.
He dont even look up before he cross a ball into the box…how can u cross a ball where there is not one liverpool player in the box…he is useless. Get him out…
It is too easy to blame one player for a mistake, however costly that make might be. Andy put in a good shift otherwise and looked threatening going forward. His wasn’t the only mistake or have an off day. Vigil, IBU, and Dominic were also not on form. But I don’t blame any of these guys. The reason we lost he game is tha Fulham played better and deserved at least a draw if not a win. We second best for most of the first half until the injection of Luis and Harvey swung the balance of play and we were a little unlucky not to get that third goal.
You win some you lose some.
Pick yourselves up and win the next game..
Andy Robertson would be the first man I would pick for the next game
I think it’s like a some usual games. When the game starts and after bit of time they start playing the ball back loose allot of time and at the end they don’t know what to do with the ball. This is the defence