{"id":457345,"date":"2023-08-29T13:19:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T09:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=457345"},"modified":"2023-08-29T13:19:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T09:19:38","slug":"rio-ferdinand-blasts-alexander-arnold-after-another-poor-showing","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rio-ferdinand-blasts-alexander-arnold-after-another-poor-showing\/","title":{"rendered":"Rio Ferdinand blasts Alexander-Arnold after another poor showing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rio Ferdinand expressed his criticism towards Liverpool&#8217;s right-back Trent Alexander-Arnold after another torrid performance in the 2-1 comeback win over Newcastle.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds may have escaped fire with a narrow victory, but that didn&#8217;t stop the ex-Manchester United defender point the finger at the 24-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>It was Alexander-Arnold&#8217;s error that put Newcastle in front in the first place and the defender should feel blessed not to be sent off for a second bookable offence.<\/p>\n<p>This has forced Ferdinand to point out some worrying signs in Alexander-Arnold&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f After Trent Alexander-Arnold\u2019s mistake leading to Anthony Gordon\u2019s goal for Newcastle, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rioferdy5?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@rioferdy5<\/a> assesses the Liverpool full-back and says he needs to learn from these mistakes if he is to improve himself in 1 v 1 situations. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kpUN9mGszw\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/kpUN9mGszw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FIVE (@FIVEUK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIVEUK\/status\/1696297112164618263?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My real criticism and worry for Trent is that he&#8217;s making mistakes defensively, especially in 1 v 1 situations, that he&#8217;s been making the last year or two, even before that. You need him to learn.&#8221; said the 44-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don&#8217;t see that he&#8217;s going into the game going, &#8220;Right, I&#8217;m going to lock Gordon down.&#8221; Maybe it&#8217;s the way tactically that teams are set up in the games nowadays.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rio Ferdinand expressed his criticism towards Liverpool&#8217;s right-back Trent Alexander-Arnold after another torrid performance in the 2-1 comeback win over Newcastle. The Reds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":457346,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20100,18258],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[20101,21189],"acf":{"announce":"\"He must improve his desire and mentality\" said the ex-Man United defender","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/457345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/457345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457347,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/457345\/revisions\/457347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457345"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=457345"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=457345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}