Micky Gray believes Liverpool ‘ran out of ideas’ in their back-to-back draws against Leicester City and West Ham which have blown the Premier League title race wide open.
The Reds have dropped points in their last two games, which has seen their lead at the top of the table cut to just three points.
Manchester City can even replace them at the summit, for the time being, if they beat Everton at Goodison Park on Wednesday.
Liverpool had the chance to open up a seven point lead over City after their shock defeat to Newcastle, but they failed to take it in a 1-1 draw with Leicester and they were frustrated again on Monday night in another 1-1 draw with West Ham.
And talkSPORT pundit Micky Gray believes the two results could suggest the Reds ‘don’t know how to win the league’, and that their inexperience at battling for trophies could give Man City the advantage.
“I’m starting to worry about Liverpool a little bit,” the former Sunderland defender told talkSPORT host Jim White.
“In their last two performances against Leicester and West Ham I think they ran out of ideas, which is pretty alarming when we know how good Liverpool have been.
“They got frustrated because West Ham sat behind the ball, they soaked everything up, and it was the same in the Leicester game.
“It got to a point in the match where I thought, ‘that’s it, they’re not going to score’.
“When you look at Manchester City, they look as if they can keep scoring goals. They’re scoring three, four, five goals.
“Liverpool have not been in this situation for a few years, whereas Man City have been over the line and won the league.
“Is this Liverpool saying, ‘we don’t know how to win the league’?”
Gray also fears Liverpool’s title bid could be ended by an injury to any of star attacking trio Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino – saying their ‘bleak’ squad could not cope with any more casualties.
He added: “I’m not criticising the individual players here, because I think they’ve done incredibly to be where they are right now when you think how good Man City were last season.
“But I worry for Liverpool in that if anything happens to their front three I don’t know where they turn.
“I looked at their bench last night, Xherdan Shaqiri is a decent player and Daniel Sturridge has got a couple of goals this season, but is he going to fill the boots of any of the front three?
“I didn’t actually realise their squad was so bleak. They have a lot of injuries right now.”