Romelu Lukaku struggled as Manchester United were beaten by Liverpool (AP Photo)

Ryan Giggs slammed Romelu Lukaku during Manchester United’s defeat to Liverpool by claiming the Belgian ‘turns good balls into bad balls’.

Jose Mourinho’s side slumped to a 3-1 defeat at Anfield and are now 19 points behind the Premier League leaders.

Sadio Mane opened the scoring in the first half but Jesse Lingard capitalised on Alisson’s error to equalise for United.

But Xherdan Shaqiri’s introduction in the second half changed the game and the Swiss midfielder struck twice to seal victory for Jurgen Klopp’s men.


Lukaku, meanwhile, struggled on his own in United’s attack and only touched the ball 20 times during the game, while he failed to register a shot on target.

Lukaku turns good balls into bad balls, says Ryan Giggs (REX)



But Giggs believes Lukaku is not doing enough to lead United’s attack.

‘We used to have centre-forwards like [Eric] Cantona who would turn bad balls into good balls,’ Giggs said at half-time for Optus Sport.

‘Now we have centre-forwards like Lukaku who turn good balls into bad balls.’