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Simon Jordan vs Graeme Souness: talkSPORT pundits clash in debate over Liverpool after stale draw with Manchester United
Simon Jordan and Graeme Souness couldn't see eye to eye when they discussed Liverpool and Manchester United's underwhelming draw.
Many fans expected the Reds to cruise to victory at home against their out of sorts rivals, similar to their huge 7-0 win in the same fixture last season.
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However, a lack of quality in the final third proved to be costly for Liverpool as United ground out a 0-0 draw.
Liverpool's failure to win was undoubtedly a surprise given the stark contrast in recent form between the two sides in the Premier League.
Despite this, former Reds star Souness echoed the sentiments of Virgil van Dijk in suggesting Liverpool showed more ambition to win the game, but were let down by not taking their chances.
However, his fellow talkSPORT pundit Jordan thinks Liverpool should have 'put United to the sword' amid the 13-time Premier League winners' lack of stability on and off the pitch.
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Both were involved in a heated and entertaining clash on White and Jordan, and you can see how it played out below...
Souness: I'll be critical of Liverpool if there was something to be critical about.
The stats would suggest twelve corners for, none against, 70 per cent of possession would tell you they went after them. How many shots on target, 18 shots on target? That would tell you the team was trying to win the game.
Jordan: Eight [shots on target]. If you have 34 shots on goal and 25 per cent of them are on target...
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Souness: I'll go back to where I started with this, Liverpool were guilty of one thing and one thing only yesterday, they didn't take their chances. They maybe weren't as creative as they have been in the past but that can happen in any game of football you're playing.
Jordan: But the onus is on Liverpool...
Graeme Souness bluntly tells Virgil van Dijk to 'get used to it' in terms of teams playing for draws against title-chasing Liverpool
Souness: They tried to win it!
Jordan: The onus is on Liverpool. They're at home, they're a team in form, Man United are out of form, they're out of sorts, they're structurally wrong at this moment in time.
So realistically speaking, it tells you that Liverpool weren't good enough to break down...
Souness: Ah you can't say that, it's not 'not good enough'.
Jordan: Well, let me finish the point because I listened to yours...
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Souness: You're looking for something that doesn't exist sometimes.
Jordan: I'm looking at 34 shots on goal right, and less than 25 per cent of them were on target. So that tells me that the quality wasn't there, so that's an observation upon Liverpool.
If United have gone into that game knowing that this is a difficult game, they're in a difficult period, like teams have, so they're not the team in ascendancy. They're not the team, psychologically or literally, in ascendancy.
So they're going to play the way they're playing at this moment in time to get them results, a 0-0 draw for Man United is a win. Now you're going back to the teams of ten or fifteen years ago which have long gone, so we should stop characterising Man United this way.
Start looking at the reality of what we're looking at in front of us. United dug out a 0-0 draw at an in-form Liverpool side where the onus is upon them to put United to the sword and they didn't, end of discussion.
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