Roberto Firmino urged to “step up” as Mohamed Salah Liverpool accusation made

Peter Crouch believes Liverpool have gotten over-reliant on Mohamed Salah and challenged Roberto Firmino to “step up”.

The Reds had been overwhelmed 1-0 at dwelling by Brighton & Hove Albion after a flat efficiency at Anfield.

Liverpool had been with out Alisson Becker in purpose as they suffered extra disruption on the again nevertheless it was their lack of creativity within the closing third which was a extra evident downside.

Firmino was restored to the beginning XI to affix Salah and Xherdan Shaqiri in assault however struggled to affect proceedings.

While Salah has remained in good type for Liverpool, having scored an eye catching brace in opposition to West Ham on the weekend, however within the absence of Sadio Mane and Diogo Jota, Firmino has did not hit the mark.

Crouch believes that Liverpool are rising over-reliant on the standard of Salah and urged Firmino to rise to the fore.

“There’s an overreliance on Salah, isn’t there? Firmino has to step up,” Crouch advised BT Sport.

“I do know it felt like he was coming again into it, however Salah is the one scoring the objectives. He’s nonetheless received 20-odd objectives and we’re speaking about him not being on prime type, he’s a top-class participant, however with Mane lacking and Jota as properly.

“It was a disgrace when Jota received injured as a result of he was actually pushing them to begin however when Salah isn’t on it or he misses possibilities, I don’t assume there’s sufficient when Mane is out and Jota is out to attain objectives.”

He added: “They had been superhuman final yr and now we’re seeing a human aspect to them, understandably so.

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“Having mentioned that, they’re lacking Alisson immediately, Van Dijk, Jota, Mane, these are large, large gamers, anybody is gonna miss these gamers.

“However they’re a title-winning aspect who ought to maybe have a deeper squad they usually’ve tried to deal with that by bringing centre-halves in however Jota’s been coaching immediately, I don’t understand how far-off Mane is.

“Liverpool are able to placing a extremely good run collectively, however whether or not you may see Metropolis shedding 4 or 5 video games, I’m unsure.”