Rooney: Liverpool’s Bournemouth defending was “terrible” and points to bigger problem

Wayne Rooney was brutally honest about our defending after the 3-2 loss to Bournemouth, calling the goals we conceded “terrible” and suggesting the unbeaten run had been masking problems.

Rooney’s point wasn’t just that we lost, but how we lost.

Speaking on the BBC’s The Wayne Rooney Show, he argued the first goal was avoidable, pointing at Virgil van Dijk not clearing, then allowing the cut-back, with the full-backs “all over the place”.

He also had a go at the stoppage-time winner...