Jamie Carragher: This Is Where Liverpool Should Strengthen in January

Captain Troy Deeney and strike partner Ighalo were in fine form against Liverpool on Super Sunday and Flores revealed the key to fielding two strikers revolves around challenging both frontmen to drop into a regimented cordon in defence.

“Bogdan had a hairy first quarter but he couldn’t be blamed for the other goals and had a decent second half”. We have shown really good football every now and then during the past two months.

“We lost our mind after the first goal, we lost our compact formation after the first goal”.

Odion Ighalo went on to score a brace as Liverpool lost for the third time under new German manager Jurgen Klopp, who actually has a worse Premier League record this season since taking over from the sacked Brendan Rogers than did his predecessor. “It is his fault, but then both hands on the ball, that is the goalkeeper safe, he has the ball”. We were playing at home, so they’re the one that has to be afraid because we’ve come back from three wins and they’re the ones that need to win. There was quite a bit of controversy about the goal, as Ake seemed to have kicked the ball out of the keeper’s hand, which might explain the Bogdan howler.

But Bogdan quickly disabused them of that idea with a horrendous third minute mistake that gifted Watford the lead.

Klopp had enjoyed a successful start to life on Merseyside but four games without a win has hit the club’s Champions League qualification hopes and lowered expectations.

John Barnes was alongside Souness and questioned whether or not the current crop of players is able to compete when they are faced with teams such as Watford when the chips are down.

“They’ve got some decent players and some that might get better but it’s going to be a long road for them”. But we tried. Watford were really good but we – and myself – gave them a headstart. We need to establish ourselves in the Premier League, this is what we need.

Watford are seventh in the Premier League table at the moment with 28 points from 17 matches, while Liverpool are ninth with 24 points.

“Yesterday’s performance and result (Watford loss) will be in his mind for the rest of the season and it reminds me of Houllier and Benitez in their first season”.