Liverpool legend Graeme Souness says the players aren't working hard enough off the ball as they struggle at the start of the season.
Souness explained in his column for the Daily Mail: "You can talk to all the modern coaches and analysts you like, apply the latest buzz terminology and fill these sports pages with all the data you can lay your hands on — but the one non-negotiable part of winning football matches is being first to the ball.
"At the moment, Liverpool are not doing that. And that's why they are a mile off the team we have known them to be in Jurgen Klopp's time at the club.
"That intensity of being first to everything is the reason why they have become winners again. They and Manchester City are by far the best two teams in the country at doing this and no one else comes anywhere near their intensity. They can squeeze the life out of teams.
"But they have gone from a team that can hustle and exhaust an opponent, from the first minute to the last, to a team suddenly second to everything. In doing so they appear to be vulnerable to every attack."
