Liverpool were embarrassed in Jurgen Klopp’s final Merseyside Derby on Wednesday.
If the Reds still had title ambitions heading into the evening, then they can forget them now. 2-0 losers at Goodison Park and it could have been more.
In truth, Liverpool were poor to a man against the Toffees. Virgil van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate may have bore the brunt of Jurgen Klopp’s complaints, but all of them deserve a rocket after what we’ve seen this evening.
Perhaps only Luis Diaz could hold his head up on a night where Liverpool shot themselves in the foot time and time again.
Understandably, plenty of a red persuasion were angry during and after the game. One who fell into that category was former Liverpool defender Stephen Warnock.
Stephen Warnock lays into Mohamed Salah
Liverpool were still in the game at half-time despite trailing to a disappointing opener.
Having started the second-half well though, they were undone by a really poor goal to concede. Dominic Calvert-Lewin with a free header from a corner.
Plenty were to blame for the goal going in. Liverpool just didn’t do enough to stop Calvert-Lewin from rising highest to nod home.
But in truth, it all stemmed from Mohamed Salah woefully losing the ball on the halfway line. And following the game, Warnock took to X to rip into not just Salah, but the Liverpool midfield, too.
“All comes from Salah not getting hold of the ball!” fumed the pundit. “Imagine losing the league at Goodison.
“Out battled on the way to a title, that doesn’t happen with Liverpool’s industrious midfield from the title winning team and Champs league. No leadership in there at all.”
What has happened to Mo Salah
This was the cherry on top of what has been a really poor run of form from Salah. In all honesty he looks like he has one foot out of the door already.
It wasn’t just the usual plethora of missed chances either, Mo was unusually poor in the build-up play as well.
Often so assured and at the heart of everything Liverpool create, Salah was so far off it on Wednesday night.
The loss of possession in the build-up to the second goal just about summed everything up. Not good enough at all.
It feels likely that we may well be seeing the final throes of Liverpool career that deserved to end in much better fashion.