Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher says the Reds are in danger of becoming a latter Wenger-era Arsenal team. 

The 3-1 defeat to Brentford again exposed Jurgen Klopp’s side lack of intensity and dynamism, and Carragher fears that the amount of technical players in Liverpool’s midfield now far outweighs the number of grafters:

“The only team it reminds me of is Arsenal under Arsene Wenger. They were a great footballing team, but their pace and physicality, teams couldn’t cope with it, but that team morphed into something really technical and it never won again.”

It’s a fair point that Carragher makes. A midfield of Fabinho, Thiago and Harvey Elliott is hardly one that is going to win any physical battle and there is also a distinct lack of pace which can be exposed by opponents.

Of course, injuries have played a part in Klopp’s selection choices but, even in the summer, the decision was made to bring in Juventus’s Arthur Melo, rather than a more physically imposing, dynamic midfielder.

From the outside looking in, there does appear to have been a shift in terms of the type of player that Liverpool have been targeting in the middle of the pitch, and it hasn’t done the Merseyside club any favours.