It was another difficult day for Liverpool.
A 3-2 defeat to Brentford at the Gtech Community Stadium saw Liverpool fall to their fourth straight Premier League defeat, their fifth loss in the last six games in all competitions.
It was another difficult affair for Liverpool left-back Andy Robertson, who was once again not named in the starting lineup.
This is despite his excellent assist for Hugo Ekitike’s equaliser against Eintracht Frankfurt on Wednesday night in the UEFA Champions League.
He was once again responsible for cleaning up the mess left by summer signing Milos Kerkez, who has struggled immensely since his arrival from AFC Bournemouth this summer.
There are starting to be more and more calls for Robertson to be back in the starting lineup on a permanent basis in the wake of Kerkez’s struggles.
Liverpool’s Andy Robertson gives damming verdict on Brentford defeat
Speaking with LFC TV following the defeat, Robertson gave a very honest account of what went wrong for his side.
He said: “We didn’t do enough off the ball. On the ball, first half I thought we created a couple of moments, kept the ball quite nice.
“But you can’t come to Brentford away and just expect to play them off the park because they are always going to be ready to fight.
“They’re always going to be ready to put bodies in the box when it comes to set-pieces, put the balls in behind, pick up second balls. You know what you’re going to come to, here. They’re always the same and they’re so good at it. It felt to me like we were just a yard off it in terms of that. They picked up so many second balls, and then the balls in behind.
“Our backline are running back to try and head the ball, which is so difficult as it is. We know how difficult… how good a set-piece team they are. We’ve worked on the long-throw and everything, and five minutes in you concede three long throw-ins. One of them you concede from.
“It’s not good enough, you play into their hands and have got an uphill battle from there. [We] kept fighting but nowhere near good enough. You have to fight for the control.
“Nobody’s going to go, On you go, you take the ball, we’ll try and defend. Nobody does that.
“They always have a gameplan, against us and every team. All the managers in the Premier League are so talented, especially the teams that have got a full week to prepare. They would have had a clear gameplan and I think they played theirs perfectly.”
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