Jamie Carragher Criticises Dejan Lovren for Wanting to 'Fight Everyone He Plays Against'

Former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher has slammed current Reds centre-back Dejan Lovren for wanting to 'fight everyone' he comes up against on the pitch.

Lovren has endured an error-strewn career at Anfield and has been used sparingly this season by Jurgen Klopp, who has seemingly lost patience with the former Southampton man.

The 30-year-old has started just nine league games for the runaway league leaders this season, and was largely culpable in Liverpool's 3-0 defeat at Watford last month, continually being bettered by Troy Deeney.

Carragher reiterated the lack of faith he has in the defender on the ​Maych x Pajak Podcast, claiming his consistent errors show a lack of progress.

"I’ve watched ​Lovren in a Liverpool shirt for so long making the same mistake. He wants to fight everyone he plays against," he said. "​Harry Kane started this season and stands on Lovren, just uses his body and knocks him out the way.

"He’s 28, he should have learnt by now. There’s no problem letting ​Deeney bring the ball down."

Deeney even admitted after Watford's victory over Liverpool that they had targeted Lovren, while sharing Carragher's opinion that all the Croat wanted to do was fight his opponents.

"[Virgil] Van Dijk is a class act, he's [one of the] top five defenders in the world and it's tough to get anything from him," Deeney told Sky Sports after the game.

"He's 6'6, fast, strong and you try and pick on the weaker of the two – no disrespect to Lovren.

"He tried to fight me from the throw in and I rolled him. He tried to fight me and wasn't even watching the ball and it worked out perfectly because we scored from it."

Lovren has fallen down the hierarchy at ​Liverpool as a result of his haphazard showings, and is now firmly behind van Dijk, Joe Gomez and Joel Matip in Klopp's pecking order.