Gary O’Neil believes Liverpool can challenge for the Premier League title this season after admitting his Wolves side had no answer to the “chaos” the Reds can create.
Liverpool are now unbeaten in their last 16 top-flight matches.
O’Neil, who previously worked at Liverpool’s Academy, admits the quality from the Reds’ bench was a telling factor.
O'Neil
“We can take a positive in that Liverpool are going to be a top side this year, they are going to be right up at the top of the league without a doubt,”
“These aren’t the kind of games we are judged on.
“You look at the two sides and the gap in quality between us and Liverpool, it takes a big effort to close that and we did for a very long time. The organisation, structure and quality of players helped us to bridge that gap.
“You know you’re not going to be the best side against Liverpool for the whole game. When we were on top we probably could have taken one or two of our situations.
“Then we lost a bit of energy, they got control and they can bring on (Darwin) Nunez and (Luis) Diaz and you know you have to dig in. And we were and at 1-1 (Jose) Sa hasn’t had loads of saves to make.
"Then we make a strange decision, create a bit of chaos and concede a second goal. As soon as you create chaos against Liverpool they are very good at it.”
O’Neil added:
“They had lots of the ball at 1-1 but we knew where they were going to be. Up until 80 minutes to have pushed Liverpool that close was a big effort for everybody.
“Their subs had a huge impact on the game. But we conceded an absolutely crazy second goal. Our players can play quite loosely which they have been for a long time and we need to take that unpredictability out until the final third.”
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