Jamie Carragher has suggested that Liverpool’s current attacking lineup is stronger than the frontline that took the Reds to within touching distance of the title in 2014.
Brendan Rodgers’ side that season was spearheaded by a superstar trio of Luis Suarez, Daniel Sturridge, and a young Raheem Sterling, but Sky pundit Carragher has claimed that Mo Salah, Roberto Firmino, and Sadio Mane are as good as that trio, if not even better.
Speaking to the Echo, he said: “This is a better team. That team had great individuals – the front three of Luis Suarez, Daniel Sturridge and Raheem Sterling. But the front three now compares to that, if not better.
“There’s no doubt that this team is a lot stronger defensively. Maybe people will say that team in that particular season was a bit more exciting in the way that it played. It was probably like what Jurgen Klopp’s side played like two years ago. This is a different Klopp team now. A lot more stable and a lot stronger.”
OPINION
To be fair, it’s a very tight call as to who you would rather have leading the line. That 2014 side was something else entirely, and the Suarez/Sturridge partnership that year was arguably as good as any the Premier League has ever seen. There was barely a week went by where they didn’t seem to smash a couple or three goals past a side, and when you factor in how exciting Sterling was that year, even as a youngster, it really was a special side. That being said, you would be hard pushed to find a more lethal triumvirate in European football than Mane, Salah, and Firmino. Their understanding is almost telepathic, and they way that they interchange and interplay is simply stunning at times. All three are proven goal-getters, and on balance, you would probably say that in a direct contest between the two, you would rather have the attacking line of the current team.
