All the latest news and analysis from Anfield on the Liverpool Echo’s dedicated LFC Facebook page<\/a><\/p>\nAnd speaking after the game, former Manchester United captain Keane took aim at Liverpool\u2019s players for this season\u2019s drop-off and believes there are bigger issues going on behind the scenes.<\/p>\n
\u201cConsidering they were league champions last year, I\u2019ve said it before and I\u2019ve said it a number of times, Liverpool are bad champions,\u201d he told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have been bad champions and they were bad champions a couple of years ago. They are now 21 points behind Arsenal; what a drop-off that is! That is so bad.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there are issues going on in the background; I think there are bigger issues. They are details you can fix, but I think there is stuff going on, I don\u2019t know if they are all on the same page and there doesn’t seem to be that chemistry with the players.<\/p>\n
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Richarlison celebrates after scoring against Liverpool for Spurs(Image: (Robbie Jay Barratt – AMA\/Getty Images))<\/p>\n
\u201cYou are on about when you win big titles, sometimes the big challenges the following year \u2013 can you back it up?<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can obviously have a drop-off, and City have had a drop-off recently in terms of their high standards, but they are still competing in second or third.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are not 20 or 30 points behind the team who is winning the league. That is a drop-off, but for Liverpool to be so far off last year, they lost four games; they have lost nine already this year, and I find it hard to get my head around that.\u201d<\/p>\n
And when it was pointed out to him that some of those defeats last season came when Liverpool had already won the league, Keane continued: “They were slacking off a little bit and switched off, of course.<\/p>\n
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Liverpool drew with Spurs on Sunday(Image: (Liverpool FC\/Liverpool FC via Getty Images))<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it is almost that mentality, and last year I was critical of Liverpool, and I felt they were always partying too much. They were partying with four, five, or six weeks to go, and there was celebrations after every home game, and you are going. You are Liverpool Football Club; are you not expected to win league titles?<\/p>\n
\u201cSo when you do win it, enjoy it, but let’s back it up next year. That is why you are playing for the big clubs, not like those teams who win a trophy and then disappear for 10 \/ 15 years, and I will be thinking the same about Arsenal.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen Arsenal win the league this year, I don\u2019t want Arsenal to disappear for the next three, four or five years. You have got to back it up and not be 20, 30 points behind the top team next year; you have got to compete. That is your challenge.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd when you are giving up goals like that, whether it was the ones at Wolves recently or even the game against Man City, I look at this group of players, their mentality and work rate and desire and what they are doing on the training pitch, and I don\u2019t like what I see with this Liverpool group. I just don\u2019t like it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rob Keane didn’t hold back when talking about Liverpool’s drop-off this season following the 1-1 Premier League draw…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,134,24740,101,8287,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-478023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gb","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-roy-keane","tag-sports","tag-tottenham-hotspur-fc","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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