Liverpool had a humiliating night in Naples and Andy Robertson faced the media after the match to give his damning assessment of the proceedings.
Speaking to BT Sport after the match, the 28-year-old said: “When you go out in a Champions League match, you can’t be that open and you have to go back to basics, you have to be compact. We created chances tonight but we deserved this result tonight and they found so many spaces in the first half, it was like they had an extra man and it’s not like us.
“You know the crowd is going to be up and you have to be ready to fight, and I don’t think we were close enough to our partner when they went to press the ball. I don’t think we were fast enough. And when you do that, they take you down just like we did.
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“They beat us 4-1 and we deserved it. We have to wake up and quickly because we can’t perform like this”.
These are not things you should hear about, having an extra man and a deserved loss, and things need to change fast.
Fair play for the Scotland captain to come out and take responsibility for the defeat, now we need to see an improvement from everyone.
Losing is a part of football, but when heads drop and effort dwindles, that’s when it starts to get worrying.
You can watch Robertson’s words on the Napoli defeat via BT Sport on YouTube:
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