FROM MONSTERS TO MIDGETS!

REDS’ MENTALITY QUESTIONED AS THEY SINK TO SIXTH HOME DEFEAT IN A ROW

LIVERPOOL’S ‘mentality monsters’ were accused of turning into ‘midgets’ after a sixth successive Anfield defeat, a 1-0 loss to relegation-threatened Fulham.

Jurgen Klopp coined the phrase to describe his side as they swept all before them on the way to the Premier League title last season but the moniker came back to haunt the German, as the Reds slipped to eighth in the table.

As Liverpool struggled to respond after Mario Lemina picked Mohamed Salah’s pocket to fire the Cottagers ahead, former Reds captain Jamie Carragher told Sky viewers: ‘Klopp previously called this team mentality monsters and that was absolutely right at the time. But right now they are like mentality midgets. This team is just not dealing well with adversity at any point in the last four months.’

Klopp, who made seven changes from last Thursday’s home defeat to Chelsea, admitted afterwards the team do not have ‘the mentality we are used to’. He said: ‘There are a lot of players who are not on the pitch who can’t be a leader in this moment. That is clear.

‘We can’t win the game because we won all the games before or because you want to win a game.

‘We don’t have the mentality we are used to but the boys want to win games and I saw that today. We still made mistakes and that’s the problem.

‘It (the top four) is really not my concern at the moment. We have to win one game, that would be helpful.’

Carragher’s Sky colleague and fellow former Anfield hero Graeme Souness

Misery: Klopp saw his team beaten at Anfield again laid into the champions. ‘It beggars belief how a team can go from being so good to so average. People talk about the manager but Klopp has learned a lot about his dressing room,’ he said.

Fellow pundit Roy

Keane added: ‘To me they are not playing as a team, they are not a team.

‘It’s obviously crisis time for

Liverpool now.’