Former Liverpool midfielder Jamie Redknapp has compared the Reds attack to Manchester United’s title-winning quartet of 1999.
The Red Devils had a phenomenal group of attackers around the turn of the century, and one of them invariably popped up with a goal, which Redknapp feels applies to the Reds’ forwards as well.
“Liverpool’s great threat is that their forwards bring the chaos factor, just as Manchester United used to,” he wrote in his Daily Mail column.
“You’d look at Teddy Sheringham, Andy Cole, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Dwight Yorke and you feared one could score at any moment. If the ball was bouncing in the box someone would be there to finish — like Roberto Firmino did at Palace.”
OPINION
Redknapp is spot on. You get the feeling nowadays that any of the Liverpool attack could find the back of the net at any moment. Even Divock Origi, who started on the substitute’s bench on Saturday, is more than capable of popping up with massive goals, as he did on numerous occasions last season. In that respect he was the Solskjaer of it all for the Reds last time out. Sadio Mane has the electric pace of Yorke, while Firmino has the intelligence of Sheringham. Then there’s Mohamed Salah, who more than matches the blistering goalscoring of a peak Cole. So the comparison is quite an apt one from Redknapp. It was Firmino who popped up with the winner at Selhurst Park on Saturday, converting from close range after a bit of a scrap in the Palace penalty area. However, it could have been any number of Reds attackers, such is the strength Jurgen Klopp has in that area of the pitch.
