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Liverpool Fans Had One Man To Blame As They Bottled A Two Goal Lead Against Southampton

Gavin Cooney
By Gavin Cooney
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Incompetence, thy name is Martin Skrtel.

Liverpool produced two halves of contrasting performances against Southampton in the Premier League this afternoon. Goals from Philippe Coutinho and Daniel Sturridge had Klopp's side coasting 2-0 at half-time. It could have been three, had Joe Allen's goal not been chalked off for offside. At half-time, with Dejan Lovren on a booking and in danger of getting a second, Klopp brought on Martin Skrtel for his first appearance since the 3-0 defeat to Watford in December.

Within four minutes of his return, Skrtel conceded a penalty, but was bailed out by Simon Mignolet who saved Saido Mané's spot kick. Liverpool then went about bottling the game anyway, with two goals from Mané either side of a Pellé equaliser winning the game for Southampton.

Skrtel had been virtually ever-present in the frequent omnishambles that was the Liverpool defence under Brendan Rodgers, and despite being tainted with association, consistently retained his place. There was a feeling that the spotlight of blame frequently shone on Mignolet, Sakho and Dejan Lovren was kind to Skrtel. Such obvious incompetence today meant that Skrtel was not escaping any ire this afternoon:

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Such obvious ineptitude will probably mean we are beginning to see the end of Skrtel's Liverpool career.

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