Roy Keane simply couldn’t assist himself when it got here to peddling a drained, cliched and albeit lazy narrative about one Liverpool participant.
The ex-Manchester United captain has been a long-standing critic of Trent Alexander-Arnold’s defensive talents, even taking a potshot on the 26-year-old on the evening that he curled in a pleasant free kick in England’s win over Finland earlier this month.
Keane sarcastically slams Trent’s defending
Talking on the most recent episode of Stick with Soccer, the Sky Sports activities pundit as soon as once more rounded on the Liverpool vice-captain over his efficiency within the Reds’ 2-1 win over Chelsea final Sunday.
With a stage of sarcasm which wasn’t precisely tough to detect, Keane mentioned: “Trent? Everybody thought Trent was that sensible defensively; the supervisor took him off with 10 minutes to go. Sensible, isn’t it? Anyway, that’s one other level.
“With 10 minutes to go you’re 2-1 up and you’re taking him off – that’s an awesome message. Yeah, we actually belief you defensively.”
Time for Keane to provide it a relaxation
It’s fairly indicative of Keane’s cussed agenda towards Trent that distinguished journalists akin to David Lynch and James Pearce who cowl each Liverpool match have each praised the right-back’s performances defensively this season.
If the ever-opinionated Irishman truly watched Reds video games as a matter of routine, he’ll have seen that Arne Slot has ceaselessly substituted the 26-year-old late on in matches as an vitality conservation measure and never an indictment of his performances.
If the Dutchman weren’t proud of how the England worldwide was defending, would he then have began each Premier League and Champions League sport to date this time period, particularly after we’ve an excellent various in Conor Bradley to name upon.
Right here’s a number of details for Keane to digest in relation to Trent’s defending towards Chelsea final Sunday – he received 5 duels and made 4 tackles and 4 clearances, preserving Jadon Sancho so quiet that the latter was substituted at half-time for Pedro Neto. The Blues wingers had one shot between them in your complete match (Sofascore).
That ought to all debunk the pundit’s lazy narrative in regards to the Liverpool vice-captain, though we’ll say one factor: if the 53-year-old had been managing the Reds, the Scouser’s contract saga would’ve ended by now as he’d have already got been despatched packing to Actual Madrid. Fortunately it’s Slot and never Keane who’s within the Anfield dugout.
