RIO FERDINAND blasted Liverpool’s “small-club mentality” and aimed a brutal dig at Jamie Carragher and Graeme Souness.
Liverpool were humbled by Bournemouth on Saturday just six days after thumping Manchester United 7-0 at Anfield.
Reacting to the result, Ferdinand said on FIVE: “That is a small club mentality. That screams small club.”
Ferdinand also hit out at ex-Liverpool players Carragher and Souness for over-celebrating Liverpool’s shock thrashing.
He added: “The way Souness and Carragher were celebrating, the way they were trying to antagonise the guys [Roy Keane and Gary Neville], and then their team goes and does that at the weekend.
“They should be ashamed of themselves.”
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Liverpool lost ground on the race for top four and now sit six points behind Newcastle after their setback at the weekend.
Manager Jurgen Klopp said on BT Sport: “What can I say? It was never really our game.
“We were dominant in the first half but mostly we put ball in at the wrong moment against a compact side.
“They had their counter-attacks they wanted to have. I really think the spaces we had to play were super clear, super open.
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“The rest was more or less busy with covering other spaces, we didn’t use that often enough, didn’t enjoy the challenge to face a deep, compact side.
“It’s clear we cannot get through with all the balls but it was like we didn’t get through and things didn’t work out.
“Little things which make a massive difference and then we go 1-0 down, not helpful obviously in the counter-attack.
“They did the same stuff but it was successful enough because we didn’t defend it well and then I thought we started pretty well in the second half and then got the penalty and we missed it and after that we were in a real rush and didn’t create enough really and that’s it.”
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
