Former Premier League defender Kenny Cunningham questioned Jurgen Klopp‘s tactics which saw Takumi Minamino and Divock Origi withdrawn early from the action against FC Midtjylland on Tuesday night.
The Reds made hard work of their 2-0 victory against the Danish side as they maintained their 100% record in the Champions League. Diogo Jota scored the opening goal of the game, which was the club’s 10,000th goal in competitive action, before substitute Mohamed Salah sealed the deal with a late second half penalty.
Klopp opted to make several changes to his starting line-up, which featured both Minamino and Origi in attack. Both players received match ratings of 6.5 (Sofascore) and were brought off just after the hour mark.
Speaking to RTE Soccer, Cunningham was baffled by this decision and expressed his disappointment that they were both substituted at the time that they were and even made references about private planes, even though the game was taking place at Anfield.
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With this in mind, some supporters were astonished by what they heard from Cunningham and were quick to make their feelings clear on social media after the match had ended.
Fans blast Kenny Cunningham’s views
Stupid punditry, they were poor for an hour and Liverpool were in no way comfortable in that game at any stage. Needed to change it up
— Keith Webster (@keithwebs) October 27, 2020
Bluffer , said Milner was off when it was Henderson . And as for the comment he will be thinking of that on the private plane back 🤦♂️🤦♂️ Back from anfield to Formby!!! 😂😂🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ good jaysus
— Derrick Kenny (@derrickkenny9) October 27, 2020
Getting on a private plane after a home game? What a spoofer
— Paul Mooney (@PaulMooney81) October 27, 2020
Hard to believe that he was an actual footballer.
— Ian Sheehan (@IanSheehan68) October 27, 2020
Doesn’t matter what sort of standard you play , the two lads where having a mare , I know they where out of position but they have played there before, right decision to take them of , see what happened when the did the shape changed and Liverpool score , Cunningham hasn’t a clue
— *BONZO* (@brian_bonny) October 28, 2020
Kenny Cunningham would be better at managing Liverpool than Klopp, in the opinion of Kenny Cunningham.
— Andrew McQuillan (@andrewexactly) October 27, 2020
In other news, Liverpool fans howl at Jurgen Klopp’s FC Midtjylland verdict on “awful” asset.
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