{"id":131693,"date":"2025-11-10T06:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T06:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/131693\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T06:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T06:32:08","slug":"liverpool-are-in-crisis-and-their-defence-is-all-over-the-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/131693\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool are in crisis and their defence is all over the place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roy Keane believes Liverpool are out of the title race and in crisis after the defending champions lost in the Premier League for a fifth time with the 3-0 defeat at Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>Those five defeats have come in their last six league matches and have left Arne Slot\u2019s side in eighth, eight points behind leaders Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool have lost four away games in succession for the first time in 13 years and have conceded 17 goals in their 11 league matches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this moment in time you can\u2019t be considering Liverpool for the Premier League title; that\u2019s five losses now,\u201d former Manchester United captain Keane told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it is crisis time for Liverpool, to lose seven in 10 with five league losses this season, it has to be a crisis for a team like Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefensively they are all over the place. The full-backs are a huge problem, the centre-half (Ibrahima Konate) looks a nervous wreck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou watch players dangling their legs, it\u2019s not what champions do. Put your body on the line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you are not at it as a team and are a little bit off get the basics right, stopping crosses and being difficult to play against.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"441\" width=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.resized.co\/breaking-news\/eyJkYXRhIjoie1widXJsXCI6XCJodHRwczpcXFwvXFxcL2ltYWdlLmFzc2V0cy5wcmVzc2Fzc29jaWF0aW9uLmlvXFxcL3YyXFxcL2ltYWdlXFxcL3Byb2R1Y3Rpb25cXFwvMTk0NWE4Y2NkYmUzNjZhNDI3OTdmNGU3MjYyZTQ1ZGRZMjl1ZEdWdWRITmxZWEpqYUdGd2FTd3hOell5T0RBMk9URXpcXFwvMi44MjM1MTE1OC5qcGc_dz02NDBcIixcIndpZHRoXCI6XCI2NDBcIixcImhlaWdodFwiOlwiNDQxXCIsXCJkZWZhdWx0XCI6XCJodHRwczpcXFwvXFxcL3d3dy5icmVha2luZ25ld3MuaWVcXFwvaVxcXC9ibi1ub2ltYWdlLnBuZ1wiLFwib3B0aW9uc1wiOntcIm91dHB1dFwiOlwiYXZpZlwiLFwicXVhbGl0eVwiOlwiNTVcIn19IiwiaGFzaCI6ImQzODZmMDg3OGRjNzI1NmZiMmMzYjRhOTUwMDA0NTZhYjgxOWU5NTAifQ==\/roy-keane-liverpool-are-in-crisis-and-their-defence-is-all-over-the-place.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"Erling Haaland scores\" data-title=\"Manchester City v Liverpool \u2013 Premier League \u2013 Etihad Stadium\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Nick Potts\" data-usage-terms=\"EDITORIAL USE ONLY No use with unauthorised audio, video, data, fixture lists, club\/league logos or \u201clive\u201d services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club\/league\/player publications.\"\/>Erling Haaland scores Manchester City\u2019s opener (Nick Potts\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom Liverpool\u2019s point of view, how badly to they want it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool\u2019s \u00a3100million summer signing Florian Wirtz has come under scrutiny for his form since joining from Bayer Leverkusen and despite impressing in the midweek Champions League win over Real Madrid he struggled again.<\/p>\n<p>Former City defender Micah Richards feels the playmaker has created an unwanted issue for Slot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday we didn\u2019t see Wirtz again and that becomes a problem for the manager,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you are bought for that amount of money, regardless from what league you are coming from, you should be showing more than he is showing now. You get bought for that money to show up in big games.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roy Keane believes Liverpool are out of the title race and in crisis after the defending champions lost&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-131693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}