Adebayo Akinfenwa was highly critical of one Liverpool player after being caught out for a PSV Eindhoven goal at Anfield on Wednesday night.
The Reds recovered from a nightmare start after Virgil van Dijk stupidly gave away a soft penalty that Ivan Perisic converted, with Dominik Szoboszlai swiftly equalising and parity being maintained until half-time.
The visitors went in front for the second time in the 56th minute when Mauro Junior played a perfectly weighted through ball to Guus Til, who got on the inside of Milos Kerkez and finished the chance beyond Giorgi Mamardashvili to make it 2-1.
Akinfenwa fumes at Kerkez over second PSV goal
Taking to X in venting his fury over the second PSV goal, Akinfenwa called out the Liverpool left-back for allowing the goalscorer to get to the ball first.
The Reds-supporting former AFC Wimbledon striker posted: ‘I’m sorry but Kerkez needs to do & be better. It’s really not good enough.’
Kerkez caught out but Liverpool’s problems are so much deeper
The Hungarian has shipped quite a bit of criticism over his performances since joining from Bournemouth in the summer, and his defensive work has come under the spotlight again after not doing enough to prevent Til from scoring.
To be fair to the 22-year-old, he’d been one of our better players in the first half tonight, with the Liverpool Echo claiming that he ‘showed fight during [the] dire opening’ to the game and ‘maintained appetite’ throughout.
Unfortunately, Kerkez switched off at the crucial moment for the second PSV goal, and Sky Sports reporter Adam Bate noted how his teammates looked at him ‘in horror’ after Til scored, with the left-back’s ‘nightmare’ at Anfield continuing.
It wasn’t the Hungarian’s finest moment, but he’s far from the only player in Arne Slot’s squad who’s vastly underperforming, with the defence in particular being torn asunder time and again in recent weeks.
Akinfenwa could justifiably talk about the team as a whole being ‘not good enough’.
Another dreadfully frustrating watch as far as product is concerned.
Not out of the UCL yet, but a bit more Jekyll and a lot less Hyde might help this season be worth the hard earned cash the fans pay to see their team play successfully.
West Ham (A) next. Won’t get any favours there.
Mate, when I saw kerkez’s name on the line up, I had a bad feeling about the game. Kerkez really needs to understudy Robertson and not start ucl and premier league games. He cannot simply just keep lurking in the opposition half. There was an incident when macallister and szoboslai need to defend on the left side to cover kerkez. I like kerkez for his energy and pace. He is still a defender and his main responsibility is still to defend.
Not kerkez fault at all thought had probably his best game the fault as virges being dragged out of position, if you want to put blame on anybody try Jones I’ve never known a worse footballer at Liverpool ,
Wasn’t kerkezfault it was handled being dragged out of position perked pld well more than I can say about the other full back Jones who did nothing except lashing a ball across his own goal , he’s been upfront midfield fullback centre back put him in goal on Sunday then kick him out of the club and bring back a proper footballer Harvey Elliott