A section of Liverpool fans have taken to Twitter to express their disappointment at Trent Alexander-Arnold’s performance against Crystal Palace on Monday night.
The Reds ran off as winners in their second clash of the season, defeating the Eagles 2-0 – thanks to goals from James Milner and Sadio Mane – to keep up with Manchester City, who sit at the summit of the Premier League table.
The 19-year-old left fans seething on Twitter for his lacklustre performance after being selected to start at right-back by Jurgen Klopp, with comments including “really disappointing” and “quite mediocre.”
Live 4 Liverpool has rounded up some of the best tweets below:
Alisson is a complete Keeper(good with both hands and feet). Robertson is the best left back in the league. Yes, he's better than Mendy.
Trent Alexander-Arnold should not start over Clyne again. He's crosses are atrocious and he's defensive skills are sub-par.— Ob! $ama (@Terryvanbuzor) August 20, 2018
All our players performed exceptionally well today. Salah's golas will come. Alexander-Arnold needs to work on the crosses. Wijnaldum played well for a full 90 mins. Keita is a gem. Alisson is as calm as it gets. Van Dijk, Gomez, Robertson, I love them. #YNWA
— Amoa (@kkweks) August 20, 2018
https://twitter.com/Edwardviney93/status/1031618378132283395
https://twitter.com/MximYesess/status/1031623186096513024
https://twitter.com/asemahlep/status/1031625292371111938
Trent Alexander Arnold has not yet put in 1 decent cross after 2564436 try’s
— ?? (@Jackinho666) August 20, 2018
Is Alexander Arnold getting paid for the back passes?
— John Foley (@jfol3y) August 20, 2018
Robertson and Alexander-Arnold being quite mediocre on the flanks in their ball control and delivery. Full backs have to be on it if we are to break this Palace team down.
— Santi Malcolm (@SantiWest100) August 20, 2018
Trent Alexander-Arnold has had nothing but green grass infront of him on the right hand side but he's produced absolutely nothing. He's been really disappointing this evening. #LFC #CRYLIV
— Ahmed Nur (@AhmedNur_LFC) August 20, 2018
OPINION
Liverpool fans are right to lay into Alexander-Arnold after his performance against Crystal Palace. He established himself as a Klopp favourite last season, but he now looks a shadow of his former self based on this recent display. The player that we saw produce pin point crosses last season seems to have disappeared, and he looks like he has been replaced by a player full of inexperience. However, we are only two games in, so the supporters should not get too carried away with their criticism of the youngster. We know what a talented prospect he is based on how he played last term, and there is no reason why he cannot go out in the next game against Brighton and prove all of his critics wrong. This is what he needs to do in order to silence the section of fans laying into his display – yes, he was not good enough last night, but the Reds still won to keep up with the pace of City. It is easy to both agree and disagree with the Liverpool faithful here, and we will just have to wait to see how he performs against the Seagulls this weekend, if he is selected.
