{"id":25281,"date":"2025-10-19T14:58:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T18:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/19\/jamie-carragher-names-liverpool-players-he-doesnt-think-he-can-handle-at-the-moment\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T14:58:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T18:58:29","slug":"jamie-carragher-names-liverpool-players-he-doesnt-think-he-can-handle-at-the-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/19\/jamie-carragher-names-liverpool-players-he-doesnt-think-he-can-handle-at-the-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Carragher names Liverpool players he doesn&#8217;t think he can handle at the moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Carragher, Florian Wirtz, Arne Slott (Photo by Sky Sports, Michael Regan\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher has admitted there are some players at the club who don&#8217;t seem to be able to cope with the way the Premier League is going at the moment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After Liverpool&#8217;s shocking 2-1 defeat at home to Manchester United today, a pundit suggested on Sky Sports that the Reds squad may have too many small players.<\/p>\n<p>The game has seen more long balls and set pieces than we&#8217;ve seen in a while, and Arne Slott&#8217;s side seem to be struggling to cope with that type of style with the players they have.<\/p>\n<p>See below for Carragher&#8217;s analysis of smaller players such as Florian Wirtz and Alexis Mac Allister who are not ideal for defending or attacking set-pieces&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Carragher has also suggested that the new full-backs haven&#8217;t coped very well either, with Jeremy Frimpong and Milos Kerkes not being the biggest or physical defenders.<\/p>\n<h2>Liverpool&#8217;s losing streak extends to four games<\/h2>\n<p>Liverpool&#8217;s loss to Man United means they are in dire form, having lost four consecutive games in all competitions.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liverpool&#8217;s Alexis Mac Allister (Photo Credit: Carl Recine\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LFC were the heavy favorites to win the Premier League this season as they won the title quite easily last season, but their form has gone downhill.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the season, we were starting to see some results, but we still conceded a lot of goals, which is now starting to really hurt us.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool lost 2-1 to Crystal Palace, 1-0 to Galatasaray, 2-1 to Chelsea and today lost 2-1 to United, so it will be difficult for them to get back on track so quickly.<\/p>\n<p>With this result, Slott&#8217;s side are already four points behind league leaders Arsenal, but have conceded 11 goals to the Gunners&#8217; three.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End -->\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Carragher, Florian Wirtz, Arne Slott (Photo by Sky Sports, Michael Regan\/Getty Images) Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher has admitted there are some players at the club who don&#8217;t seem to be able to cope with the way the Premier League is going at the moment. After Liverpool&#8217;s shocking 2-1 defeat at home to Manchester United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[40],"class_list":{"0":"post-25281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}