Reds right-back Trent Alexander-Arnold has spoken with Liverpool’s official site about the importance of beating Tottenham on Sunday, as the side’s aspirations for the season are quickly slipping from their grasp.
Liverpool’s incredibly poor start to the Premier League season continued this weekend as Crysencio Summerville’s 89th-minute strike sealed a 2-1 victory for Leeds at Anfield.
After going 1-0 down to Leeds after just four minutes of play, Mohamed Salah quickly drew his team level just ten minutes later.
However, the Reds failed to capitalise against Jesse Marsch’s leaky defence, allowing Summerville to react to Wilfried Gnonto’s cross with a slotted finish past Alisson Becker.
Liverpool now sit ninth in the league table – eight points behind fourth place Newcastle.
Alexander-Arnold has consequently spoken of the importance of getting three points when the Reds travel to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Sunday, with Jurgen Klopp’s aspirations slowly falling through the Reds’ fingertips. He told Liverpool’s official club website:
“Clearly as a team something’s not going right, it’s not going as well as we want it to go. That’s something for everyone to think about, that’s something for everyone to address and make sure we put it right, especially next week against Spurs, top-four rivals. We kind of need to go there and get some points if we’ve got any chance of reaching our aims and aspirations for the season.”
Trent says three points vs Spurs will be crucial
With Arsenal and Manchester City pulling away at the top of the table, a top-two finish already appears out of sight for the Merseyside outfit. As a result, Klopp will be drilling the importance of Champions League qualification into his players’ heads; quality reinforcements in the transfer market will be hard to come by without continental football.
Under Antonio Conte’s strong leadership, Tottenham have seen a dramatic improvement in results this season. With Liverpool fighting for the Lilywhites’ third-place spot, it is crucial the Reds take points from their top-four competitors this weekend.
However, whilst this is quite an obvious take, in recent times at Anfield, the issue has actually related to dropping unnecessary points against teams from the bottom half of the table.
After Salah ensured a huge victory against Man City, it looked as if the side had undergone a major U-turn – with a drastic change in performance surely on the horizon.
Subsequently, taking to the City Ground, a dismal 1-0 defeat to bottom of the league Nottingham Forest was a hard pill to swallow, having been sold dreams of a resurgence a week prior.
Therefore, if Liverpool are going to qualify for the Champions League this season, they have don’t have room for many more slip-ups.
An instant response is going to be needed at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium next week.
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