Arsenal will fancy beating Liverpool to open a huge 14-point gap over their rivals when they meet next weekend, says Gabby Agbonlahor.
The striker-turned-pundit hammered the Reds display in Saturday’s draw at home to Brighton, which was in sharp contrast to Arsenal’s north London derby win over Tottenham.
Jurgen Klopp’s decision to start Fabio Carvalho over Luis Diaz and Darwin Nunez was called into question along with Liverpool’s slack defending at Anfield.
Agbonlahor told talkSPORT: “He’s making mistakes as a manager. Today, start Diaz, start Nunez. He started Carvalho, took him off at half time.
“You can’t make these mistakes in the Premier League. Brighton are a top side, they’ve shown that.
“Liverpool now are 11 points behind Arsenal, 11 points!
“His defenders don’t want to defend, [Virgil] Van Dijk didn’t want to defend today, he’s stuck in first gear.
“Teams are targeting that right-hand side with Trent [Alexander-Arnold] and it’s hard to watch Liverpool defend. [Joel] Matip as well today was poor, and they’ve got problems Liverpool.
“Arsenal play them next week at the Emirates and Arsenal fancy themselves to beat Liverpool, be 14 points ahead of them. The Mr Mentality Monster [Klopp] needs to be a mentality monster himself and get his team to play better.”
