Liverpool earned a point against Manchester City in the Premier League with an 80th-minute goal from Trent Alexander-Arnold, but Jamie Carragher was not happy with one player’s performance.
Jamie Carragher believes Liverpool were lucky to get a point against Manchester City after the hosts fouled Alisson.Liverpool were held to a 1-1 draw at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday when Trent Alexander-Arnold’s 80th-minute strike canceled out Erling Haaland’s low goal.
They are the first team to deny City a home win in 24 games in 2023, but the result brought a bit of luck.Ruben Diaz scored from a second-half corner after Manuel Akanji was adjudged to have fouled Alisson.
The City defender dived with the Liverpool keeper which allowed Diaz to tap into the empty net.”Liverpool and Alisson are very happy,” Carragher told Sky Sports. “If the referee calls it a goal, VAR calls it a foul, which is absolutely not the case.
No goalkeeper of his caliber can touch him. Jurgen Klopp has revealed Liverpool’s “impressive” level gap at Manchester City.
Gary Neville highlighted two moments in support of Jurgen Klopp’s difficult performance at Liverpool.”It’s like a centre-back and a centre-forward jumping and tackling a header. It’s there for balance.
It reminds me of the Newcastle-Arsenal situation where you can argue 50/50 whether Gabriel was at fault or not, but you can never take back the fact that the referee didn’t give a foul.
“I think from Liverpool’s point of view, they want my goalkeeper to solve this problem.”Alisson had a difficult game for Liverpool, his shot leading to Haaland’s first goal after another errant pass to Phil Foden.
The Liverpool keeper produced a superb low save to prevent Foden from going 2-0 down at half-time but was still challenged by Carragher.Ruben Diaz’s second goal for Manchester City was later disallowed after Manchester City’s Manuel Akanji fouled Liverpool’s Alisson Becker.
“I think even the best goalkeeper in the world, certainly in the top two or three, would be disappointed with his performance today,” he added. “I don’t think he’s worried at all. He struggles with the ball sometimes.
We saw that when we got close to the first goal, but for a goalkeeper of his quality he has to be better.” “If you think about the two goals today, they were close and didn’t give the goalkeepers much time to settle.
“However, Carragher praised Liverpool’s overall performance. He said: “If it was City last season we would have lost this game last season.” But something is growing and we listen to Trent, even when we were 1-0 down it felt like Jurgen Klopp gave the message ‘Go boys’ at half-time and there was a lot of pressure in the early part of the second half.
It was higher and they thought they would get something out of this match. I don’t think either team is good enough and looking at the game I don’t think either team deserved to win.
