‘Not good enough’ – Roy Keane criticises Liverpool duo Mohamed Salah and Andy Robertson after Fulham goal
Manchester United legend Roy Keane took aim at Mohamed Salah and Andy Robertson after Mario Lemina’s decisive goal in Fulham’s famous 1-0 victory at Anfield and said Liverpool looked a ‘shadow of themselves’ as their disastrous slump deepened.
The champions had suffered five successive Premier League defeats at home prior to Sunday’s clash and will have been desperate to put their wretched form behind them with a strong start on Merseyside, with Klopp making seven changes to the team that lost to Chelsea in midweek.
But the Reds rarely threatened and 18th-placed Fulham took a deserved lead right on the stroke of half-time after Lemina stole the ball from Salah and drove a powerful shot past a despairing Alisson.
Fulham defender Joachim Andersen denied Liverpool with a heroic clearance at the death and Scott Parker’s men held to secure their first ever win at the stadium – and a third victory in six games – to further boost their survival hopes.
Former United captain Keane applauded Lemina’s ‘lovely technique’ but was less than impressed with Robertson’s weak defensive header in the build-up and felt Salah was nowhere near strong enough as he lost possession.
‘It’s a lovely technique but it’s shocking from Liverpool’s point of view,’ Keane said in the Sky Sports’ studio at half-time.
‘Set-piece, obviously Robertson has got to do better. Salah – okay, it’s not one of his strengths – outmuscled.
‘But it’s a lovely technique, the way he gets across the ball and they deserve it.
‘It’s not a great delivery, I think Robertson has got to do better, Salah has got to be stronger, he cannot lose it there.
‘Fantastic strike but it’s amazing what’s happened to this Liverpool team. They’re a shadow of themselves.
‘Salah… not good enough, not strong enough, [not enough] desire but Robertson has got to do better as well. You’ve got to get a better header than that away.’
Ex-Liverpool skipper Graeme Souness branded his former team an ‘easy touch’ and claimed they had lost their ‘intensity’ which has made them such a force in recent years.
‘It’s disappointing,’ Souness said after Liverpool’s lacklustre first-half display.
‘You’ve got a group of players who will be looking to tell their manager with their performances that they should be in the starting XI.
‘But that’s not happened today from any of them.
‘Like Roy said, they’re a shadow. There’s one word I’d associate with Liverpool over the last three years and that’s “intensity”, a team you wouldn’t want to play against.
‘Now it’s a team that are an easy touch and that’s unacceptable.’
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