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Liverpool managed to beat Bournemouth 4-2 in their opening game of the Premier League season.
The two sides faced one another on Friday, 15 August, with the Reds having home advantage as the game was played at Anfield.
That is, at least according to Carragher, who believes that Milos Kerkez played too “aggressively.”
“He does go flying in, he is really aggressive, you have to temper that sometimes,” he said while live on Sky Sports.
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Even though Liverpool got off to a slow start, as the game went on, the Reds slowly worked themselves into the game.
However, throughout the entirety of the first half, it felt like Kerkez was on a mission to win every single challenge against his former teammate, Antoine Semenyo.
“You can see this battle going on at the back post, you just see Kerkez and Semenyo, it’s just once he [Semenyo] gets in front of him, he’s just too powerful for Kerkez,” Carragher said.
“He’ll never get the other side of him, he just does enough there to put him off as much as he can without giving a foul away.”
Even though Kerkez was one of Bournemouth’s most important players last term, his first couple of competitive games for Liverpool have been full of mistakes.
StatisticPercentage completedGround duels33%Aerial duels40%Accurate crosses0%Accurate long balls66%Dribbled pastOnceA selection of Milos Kerkez’s first-half statistics for Liverpool v Bournemouth [Credit: Sofascore.]
Unless the Hungarian can get his act together and keep his head during games, it’s hard to see how the left-back is much of an upgrade on the likes of Andy Robertson and Kostas Tsimikas.
That is, even if he does offer more of an attacking threat than the aforementioned duo.
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