Neil Jones has questioned the decision by Jurgen Klopp to play Alexis Mac Allister from the start in Liverpool’s 3-1 win over Wolves on Saturday. The midfielder started at Molineux despite not long being back from playing two World Cup qualifiers in South America, a subject on which the manager was in Friday’s pre-match press conference, and Jones believes it was an incorrect call by the German. In an the journalist wrote: “Alexis Mac Allister probably shouldn’t have started the game. It was a surprise to see him on the teamsheet given the way Jurgen Klopp had spoken about him on Friday being up on a mountain in Bolivia. “Bolivia, by the way, is one of the toughest away’s in world football with the altitude, so it was a surprise to see him in the team.
It was a poor performance and he was rightly taken off at half-time.”
The ex-Brighton man gave the ball away seven times against Wolves ( , sometimes in areas where his team were put under pressure immediately, exhibiting an uncharacteristic carelessness in possession.