Liverpool legend rages at Arne Slot experiment - 'I don't understand this one'

Without and through injury and with only just back from a lengthy spell out of the side, head coach Arne Slot against Fulham.

While it over Everton, he was always going to face a tougher test at Craven Cottage. The experiment didn't work quite as well the second time and now Bradley is back, we might not see it again.

Liverpool and with three right-backs unavailable to select from the start, Slot hardly committed a crime by going with Jones — not least after he impressed last time out. But .

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"Curtis Jones playing at full-back again — I don’t understand this one," he fumed. "You’ve got Conor Bradley, you’ve got Jarell Quansah on the bench, you’re away from home.

"You don’t play away from home at full-back. You can get away with that at Anfield, which they did last week, but not away from home.

"When you play at home and you play away they are two completely different animals. When you play away from home you have to be a touch more conservative, a touch more safe.

"You’re away from home, you’ve got the crowd against you, you know they’re going to be at it. So, you have to be somewhat conservative, and that would mean straight off the bat, you play a defender in a defensive position.

"You don’t play a midfielder who wants to go forward and ask him to defend and that’s what he did. I think he got it completely wrong."

Nicol was displeased with how Jones defended on the first Fulham goal. After wondergoal, Marco Silva's men came back into the contest with an equalizer through Ryan Sessegnon. Fourteen minutes later, Fulham had a 3-1 lead.

"Liverpool were 1-0 up and they lose a goal because Curtis Jones isn’t aware of what he should be thinking when the ball comes into the box, he completely shuts off," Nicol said.

"He’s not even next to . He’s five yards behind Konate who just misses the ball. Any defender will tell you you have to think your teammate’s going to miss it.

"You have to have worst-case mentality as a defender. He didn’t, it comes off his knee, a great finish from Sessegnon, but a defender deals with that a different way and that puts Fulham back in the game."

Liverpool.com says: Jones has not played full-back often but he really wasn't that bad. The bigger concern was how Virgil van Dijk and Konate defended, and how all over the place Andy Robertson was. That is something that Slot needs to sort out.