'This is not what Arne Slot wants': Jamie Carragher says one Liverpool player was 'like a madman' vs Brighton

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Liverpool do not have much of a turnaround from beating Brighton at the weekend to facing Bayer Leverkusen on Tuesday.

The Reds endured what was a tumultuous day of Premier League football on Saturday, coming from behind to take the points against Brighton and seeing both Arsenal and Man City lose.

For a long time, it had looked as though Arne Slot and his team were set for a second defeat of the season at Anfield.

Brighton were excellent throughout the first-half and could have been further than one goal ahead.

But aided by a raucous Anfield crowd, Liverpool fought back. Goals from Cody Gakpo and Mohamed Salah did the damage.

Although the win felt like a big one at the final whistle, former Reds centre-back Jamie Carragher has claimed that Slot will not have been all that pleased with what he saw.

Arne Slot looking for more control

Slot has earned a reputation during his first 15 games at Liverpool as being a very composed coach who’s team play very composed football.

Words like ‘controlled,’ ‘measured’ and ‘mature’ have been thrown around to described the kind of play seen at Anfield these days.

However, Liverpool’s famous old ground tends to do things a little differently when the chips are down. Chaos usually reigns.

But, speaking to Sky Sports on Monday night, Carragher insisted that the madness that ensued as the Reds searched for a winner on Saturday is exactly what the Liverpool head coach does not want from his team.

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“Look at Darwin Nunez, he’s like a madman!” says the Liverpool legend. “This is not what Arne Slot wants, this is Jurgen Klopp. We were told there’s going to be more control.

“Liverpool win it back again, everyone flying forward, look at the bodies. This is just end to end, this is the Anfield factor.

“Arne Slot down here, he doesn’t want to see this end to end football.”

Liverpool need ‘the Anfield factor’

Whether Slot wants it or not, there will be times when Liverpool games descend into this kind of chaos at home. That’s just the way it is.

Although the Dutch coach’s more pragmatic way of football has worked for the most part this season, there are games – like Saturday’s – where it doesn’t.

That has happened to every manager or head coach throughout Liverpool history.

And for all of them, the power, chaos and confusion of Anfield at its most delirious has helped get them over the line when it looked improbable that they would do so.

Saturday was Slot’s first taste of that and there will doubtless be many more. It may not be his first choice, but the Anfield factor will help more than it’ll hinder. Embrace it, Arne!