Owen believes Liverpool need a change in strategy

lost 1-0 to

last night with a poor performance to get further away from the title. Liverpool have now suffered from two defeats after 68 unbeaten games at Anfield and have failed to score in three consecutive home clashes for the first time since 1984.

Former Liverpool striker,

Michael Owen

believes

Jurgen Klopp

needs to make some changes in the tactics in order to get the best out of players.

“I often think that Mane when he plays, and Salah, they’re better when they start wide,”

Owen said.

“Think of the chance Salah had early on, he needs to start wide and run inside. As soon as Roberto Firmino drops in it leaves those gaps and they come wide.

"A lot of the time this season they’ve been starting narrow and then you’ve got nowhere to run - the only way you can run is out and away from the goal.

“I think Liverpool are better when they have width. They get clustering. They have a lot of samey players in midfield in Thiago, Wijnaldum and Milner.

“I would like to see them stretching play a lot more, upping the tempo, winning the ball high again, committing players forward to win the ball high, they have to do it, they have to stem it themselves because they don’t have the Anfield crowd.

“You can react off the crowd, it’s a powerful thing but they can’t call upon that now they need to do it themselves to get this monkey off their back.

“It looks like there’s no energy in the team. Liverpool are used to winning the ball high, keeping the energy up, keeping a high tempo game. All of a sudden now it’s just not the Liverpool I’m used to watching, they rarely hunt in packs any more. It’s just not what we’re used to at the minute and they need to find something quick.”

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