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‘It’s too risky’… Peter Schmeichel thinks he’s spotted a big weakness in Liverpool’s game
Peter Schmeichel has now been discussing a weakness he’s spotted at Liverpool ahead of the Manchester City clash on Sunday.
Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool side welcome City to Anfield knowing they haven’t l🗹ost to their opponents at home in the league since 2003.
It’s 🥀quite an astonishing record when you consider just how good Man City have been for the last decade or so.
But Anfield is a fortress, and keeping it that way once Klopp departs in the summer is part of the challenge for the next m🍨anager.
That being said, Peter Schmeichel✤ has noticed one weakness with Klopp’s current Lꦅiverpool team, which might be exposed on Sunday.
The pundit was speaking on the ‘’ podcast and said that Liverpool had become far too reliant on Alisson this season.
Although injured🍸 right now, Schmeiche♒l thought the Liverpool keeper had been left in far too many one versus one situations this year.
And despite how well Virgil van Dijk is playing, Sch🌺meichel didn’t think Liverpool could win the league unless something changed.
Peter Schmeichel says Liverpool have a big weakness in defence this season
Speaking on the podcast,ജ the pundit cited the cup final against Chelsea as an indicator of how poor Liver🌟pool’s defending had become.
He said: “Van Dijk is a fantastic defender but I don’t think Liꦏverpool d🌟efends particularly well.
“I mean they’ve been🐷 very, ꦫvery reliant on Alisson this season until he got injured.
“Alisson has proved himself again as one of the best goalkeepers in one versus one situations, but the number one versus one situations th﷽ey actually leave their goalkeeper is for me, in order to win the Premier League, it’s too many.
“It’s too risky and if you go back to 💯the cup final against Chelsea, the number of chances Chelsea had, you can’t argue that Liverpool are defending well, you just ca🎃n’t.”
Stats tell the story
Whilst Jurgen Klopp has been missing a ton of players through injury this season, there is a difference in his side’s 𒀰defending in comparison to both Arsenal and City.
Liverpool have allowed 33.78 expected goals against the﷽m this season in 27 games, in comparison to City allowing 25.70 xGa and Arsenal 22.12 xGa ().
S🎉o whilst some🐽 may think Schmeichel is slightly exaggerating a weakness in Liverpool’s defending, the stats do back him up.
All that considered, Schmeichel did th🐓en predict the scoreꦗ for Sunday’s game as well.