As Liverpool slump to a record-breaking sixth home Premier League defeat in a row, some of the club's former players have rounded on the selections and performances.
Speaking on Sky Sports, Graeme Souness and Jamie Carragher were joined by Roy Keane to look at where the performances are falling apart.
Carragher believes that the mental strength exhibited by the Reds last season has completely fallen away.
Liverpool 'mental midgets'
"So often at these stages last season, Liverpool scored late goals, even the year before when they were chasing down Man City. [Jurgen Klopp] rightly called his side the 'mentality monsters' and they deserved that tag. But right now, they are like 'mentality midgets'.
"Every time there is a bit of adversity, you go behind in a game, his team is just not dealing well with adversity at any stage in this last three or four months.
"It is not acceptable from Liverpool, that sort of performance, and I'll tell you what, I played in some really poor Liverpool teams.
"These defeats, at home, against the level of opposition, you need to find something from somewhere. It looks like top four positions now are a long way off."
🗣 "It beggars belief how a team can go from being so good to so average."
Graeme Souness has questioned the attitude of Liverpool's players after they slumped to a sixth successive defeat at Anfield. pic.twitter.com/KAkG2WNftl— Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) March 7, 2021
Souness on Reds
"When you are a player and you win a big trophy, that is parked. Enjoy it for a week. Then every day you're laying on a beach you think about the challenges coming ahead.
"I would say some of those players haven't done that. 'Let's enjoy the moment, it may never happen to us again.'
"It is all about winning it again, and again, and again."
As for this particular slump, Souness was lost for explanation.
"It is unfathomable. It beggars belief how a team can go from so good to so average. It's ok asking questions about the manager but it's about the players.
"Jurgen Klopp has found out at this moment in time what he has got in his dressing room. Some of them haven't stood up to the challenge."
Former Manchester United captain Keane had his say as well.
"I suppose the biggest worry I'd have for Liverpool is that to me is they're not playing as a team. They are not a team.
"The signs have been there for the last few months, you're thinking 'are they really that bad? It is obviously crisis time for Liverpool now.
"They are not playing as a team and that should be the manager's biggest worry."
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