Fowler: Klopp will 'rightly pick a few Liverpool players apart'

‘Jurgen will tear them a new one’: Robbie Fowler insists Liverpool’s players should be ‘TERRIFIED’ over Klopp’s reaction to their dismal Champions League defeat at Napoli as he warns the German will ‘rightly pick a few players apart’

  • Liverpool were thrashed 4-1 by Napoli in the Champions League on Wednesday
  • The Reds defended abysmally and found themselves three behind at half-time 
  • Robbie Fowler insists the players deserve heavy criticism after the thrashing
  • He believes they will be ‘terrified’ of Jurgen Klopp’s post-match dress-down 
  • Fellow Reds legend Michael Owen admitted it could be a long season at Anfield 

Robbie Fowler believes Liverpool’s players ‘deserve’ to be yelled at by Jurgen Klopp following their abysmal 4-1 defeat by Napoli in the Champions League on Wednesday.

Goals from Piotr Zielinski, Andre-Franck Zambo Anguissa and Giovanni Simeone handed the defensively frail Reds a three goal deficit at half-time, before Luis Diaz cancelled out Zielinski’s second shortly after the break.

Despite displaying flashes of promise in attack, Liverpool were found wanting in defence across all areas of the pitch, conceding four sloppy goals and two penalties after just 47 minutes.

Liverpool wore an embarrassing 4-1 defeat by Napoli in the Champions League on Wednesday

Robbie Fowler feels manager Jurgen Klopp has every right to reprimand his Liverpool players

Ex-Anfield striker Fowler insisted that the players would have been ‘terrified’ heading towards the dressing room for Klopp’s post-match dress-down.

The 47-year-old pundit also urged that Klopp’s men ‘deserve’ heavy criticism following their lacklustre and careless defensive display.

‘Players will go into that dressing room and they will be terrified because Jurgen will tear them a new one, and they deserve it,’ he said during his post-match reaction on BT Sport.

‘When you think of Liverpool, you should never, ever question the desire of the commitment, and Klopp will go in the dressing room and pick a few players apart there, and quite rightly so. 

The Reds defended shambolically and found themselves three behind at end of the first-half

The ex-Liverpool star admitted the players will be terrified of Klopp’s post-match dress-down

‘They look a bit laboured, they look a bit lethargic, and their lacking that fluency at the moment.’

Fellow Liverpool legend Michael Owen, who was part of the punditry team alongside Fowler, warned his former side that they could be staring down the barrel of long and difficult campaign.

‘Based on what we’ve seen this season, it’s simply not good enough for Liverpool Football Club,’ he said.

‘I just hope this isn’t another season that’s shaping up to be one to forget (like 2020/21 was). If this continues, it could be a long season.’




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