Football pundit Craig Burley has said that Dejan Lovren and Alberto Moreno should never play for Liverpool again following their horror show for the club against Tottenham during the weekend. The Reds ended up falling to an embarrassing 4-1 defeat at Wembley Stadium and their defending was once again woeful.
Lovren was largely at fault for the opening two goals which Spurs scored and manager Jurgen Klopp even publically criticized him after the game. Moreno and Joe Gomez were also less than impressive on the day.
Burley believes that Moreno and Lovren do not have the football intelligence to play for a club like Liverpool. However he does concede that Gomez is still young and can still improve his game.
Burley said: “It’s nothing to do with attitude, it’s to do with football intelligence, it’s to do with brains, it’s to do with being able to read the game. You don’t have to be the quickest defender, you don’t have to be the biggest defender, the strongest defender, the best footballing defender, the best in the air.
“But you’ve got to be one of the best at reading the game. Liverpool defenders cannot read or smell or sniff out dangerous situations. We could talk about Lovren all day but he’s just made too many mistakes. He shouldn’t be wearing a Liverpool strip.
“Joe Gomez is a young boy, 20 years old, I always give youngsters leeway.“Alberto Moreno, right, how the hell he’s still playing left-back for Liverpool after his performances over the last couple of seasons is beyond me.”
