Jamie Carragher has noticed an encouraging trend under Andoni Iraola: Liverpool’s ability to come from behind. He reckons it ‘bodes well’ character-wise, but says there’s still something missing.
Liverpool have now come from behind to either win or draw five times in 11 games this season. That’s already more than they managed in the whole of 2025/26 under Arne Slot. On Tuesday’s 4-3 win over Villarreal, they battled back from 2-0 down after half an hour.
But Carragher told CBS Sports Golazo that the Reds haven’t yet produced an ‘outstanding performance’ where attack and defence click together. “Typical Liverpool all season, really,” he said. “There still hasn’t been one outstanding performance where you feel like the attack’s flowed and they’ve been strong defensively.” He noted they’ve had either defensive stability or attacking fluency, but not both.
The resilience is a plus, he added. What concerns him is that Liverpool can’t afford to keep digging themselves into holes: “If they were to find themselves in a similar hole against Brighton or Arsenal over the next fortnight, it’d be hard to see them pulling off another comeback.”
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