{"id":596139,"date":"2025-11-27T01:12:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T01:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/596139\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T01:12:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T01:12:22","slug":"adebayo-akinfenwa-slams-kerkez-after-guus-till-goal-v-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/596139\/","title":{"rendered":"Adebayo Akinfenwa slams Kerkez after Guus Till goal v Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adebayo Akinfenwa was highly critical of one Liverpool player after being caught out for a PSV Eindhoven goal at Anfield on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

The Reds recovered from a nightmare start after Virgil van Dijk stupidly gave away a soft penalty<\/a> that Ivan Perisic converted, with Dominik Szoboszlai swiftly equalising and parity being maintained until half-time.<\/p>\n

The visitors went in front for the second time in the 56th minute when Mauro Junior played a perfectly weighted through ball to Guus Til, who got on the inside of Milos Kerkez and finished the chance beyond Giorgi Mamardashvili to make it 2-1.<\/p>\n

Akinfenwa fumes at Kerkez over second PSV goal<\/p>\n

Taking to X<\/a> in venting his fury over the second PSV goal, Akinfenwa called out the Liverpool left-back for allowing the goalscorer to get to the ball first.<\/p>\n

The Reds-supporting former AFC Wimbledon striker posted: \u2018I\u2019m sorry but Kerkez needs to do & be better. It\u2019s really not good enough.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Milos(Photo by Carl Recine\/Getty Images)Kerkez caught out but Liverpool\u2019s problems are so much deeper<\/p>\n

The Hungarian has shipped quite a bit of criticism over his performances since joining from Bournemouth in the summer, and his defensive work has come under the spotlight again after not doing enough to prevent Til from scoring.<\/p>\n

To be fair to the 22-year-old, he\u2019d been one of our better players in the first half tonight, with the Liverpool Echo<\/a> claiming that he \u2018showed fight during [the] dire opening\u2019 to the game and \u2018maintained appetite\u2019 throughout.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Kerkez switched off at the crucial moment for the second PSV goal, and Sky Sports<\/a> reporter Adam Bate noted how his teammates looked at him \u2018in horror\u2019 after Til scored, with the left-back\u2019s \u2018nightmare\u2019 at Anfield continuing.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t the Hungarian\u2019s finest moment, but he\u2019s far from the only player in Arne Slot\u2019s squad who\u2019s vastly underperforming, with the defence in particular being torn asunder time and again in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

Akinfenwa could justifiably talk about the team as a whole being \u2018not good enough\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adebayo Akinfenwa was highly critical of one Liverpool player after being caught out for a PSV Eindhoven goal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-596139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115619008149164486","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}