Gary Neville calls Bradley Barcola out for what he did during Liverpool 0-3 Man City, ‘cannot continue’

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So far though, and in particular against City, the 24-year-old has not delivered on that.Up against Nunes, who is not a natural full-back, the opportunity was there for Barcola to really put in a statement performance, but having seen him turn down the chance to really attack the City man a couple of times at Anfield, Neville called on the Frenchman to have more belief in his football.“Just looking at Barcola today, particularly in that first half when he was down here obviously against Nunes and there’s a couple of times and I think in a top game, a big game as a right back you’re likely to be run at probably two or three times a half in a big game because if you getting run at more than that you’re usually getting a bit of a doing. So ordinarily, you’re going to have a couple of moments whereby you’re facing your winger and you have to win,” Neville explained on Sky Sports.“He really did turn down and reject the one-on-one duel that he directly had against Nunes.

He sort of wasn’t positive and didn’t have that belief and I don’t know where that comes from really from Barcola, because you think about the way in which he plays for France, you know, in the World Cup and he gets the ball off PSG and he’s just so direct, he’s rapid and you think right, okay, go straight at Nunes.”READ MORE: Jamie Carragher says there was still one ‘big bright spark’ for Liverpool despite Man City hammering“It doesn’t matter who it is, it could be the best right back in the world he’s playing against, by the way, but certainly when you’re playing against Manchester City, and you get that one or two moments, I don’t know why he rejected the one-on-one and going directly at Nunes and driving him back into the box and just trying to give him a little bit of a problem. “He’s got to make sure he comes out of that.

“I just didn’t feel like Barcola had that in the game today, and I’m surprised because I would have thought that his youth, his energy, his exuberance, his talent would have just really given him the ability to go and do that, and I don’t know why he didn’t have that today. He’s got to correct it.