Trent Alexander-Arnold had an afternoon to forget as Liverpool drew 3-3 at home to Brighton on Saturday.

The Liverpool right back had been defended by Jurgen Klopp in the build-up to the match following Gareth Southgate's decision not to play him in England's matches against Italy or Germany.

Alexander-Arnold had the opportunity to respond to Southgate in the best possible way - by producing a performance on the pitch against Brighton.

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However, things didn't go to plan for Trent or Liverpool.

Klopp's side found themselves 2-0 down inside 17 minutes as the full-back suffered a really difficult start to the match.

Leandro Trossard sent him to the ground to give Brighton the lead before he lost possession allowing Brighton to double their lead through the same player.

While Liverpool did go 3-2 ahead thanks to a Roberto Firmino brace and an Adam Webster own goal, Brighton grabbed a point as Trossard completed his hat-trick finishing off a cross that came from Alexander-Arnold's side.

It wasn't just defensively that the Liverpool defender struggled. Even with the ball where he usually excels, he just didn't look himself.

Now, following his dismal display, a pretty brutal compilation of his performance has emerged on Twitter.

It really isn't good watching for Liverpool fans who have defended Alexander-Arnold all week.

VIDEO: Alexander-Arnold's performance for Liverpool vs Brighton

Oh dear.

Klopp defended Alexander-Arnold earlier this week

Earlier this week, Klopp gave a passionate defence of Alexander-Arnold explaining how Liverpool's tactics means he's not always to blame for defensive deficiances.

“What is he good at? That’s how we judge a player and develop the way we play,” he said. “Our high press, very often, not always but very often, Trent is the highest of all three at the back.

“So it means in the high-press situation, he’s the one who goes to the right and that’s the way we play football. Yes, you can say, ‘Well defend better.’ You cannot have everything. If you want to high press, you need players in these positions.

“Either put a striker wider to cover that area or the midfield are higher, or we cover that last line with three players plus Fabinho, or whoever plays as the six, and have him higher.

“Now we don’t get the ball there and the next ball goes long on that side. Now Joel, Joey, Ibou, whoever plays there on that side, has to cover that but that’s fine. That’s the risk we take. It’s not a crazy risk, we win the ball in nine out of 10 times. In that one moment where we don’t win it, people ask, ‘Where’s Trent?’ That’s a question I don’t understand.

“Everybody watches football that often and that long, why would you then say, ‘He has to be there. That’s his main job’? Did I tell him he has to be there? No. We press extremely brave, when we are good. We defend bad when we didn’t press brave.

“We were waiting a little bit because people were thinking, ‘Will he still go?’ We are extremely brave in these situations and win balls with it. Now we don’t win the ball with it, that’s the nature of pressing.

“You bring more players than you need on the ball side to make it more likely to win the ball. That leaves a chance on the other side that you’ll get slightly exposed. It’s football. The pitch is too big to be everywhere with five players. He’s involved in that.

“The ball goes in behind. Again, not there. What’s going on? But there are other situations where he was not aware of the situation, where they pass the ball through him or there was a challenge he should have won. True.

“But every player in the league has these challenges. Every player. With him, you pick it out and analyse so easily. Our experts are sitting there and see, in this situation, it as a weakness. Honestly, I just don’t get it. I just don’t get that part of it.

“We just accept that a world class talent gets judged by the one thing he’s not as world class as in other things. If he wasn’t a good defender, he wouldn’t play.

“I cannot just tell him, ‘Whenever you get the ball, just wait there.’ He’s not a full-back. In other games, you have if you have the ball, give it to Trent, he will do something special. ‘Oh, he’s involved in everything and it’s absolutely fine. He’s doing well.’

“It’s not a criticism on anybody. We have different ideas, different match plans, different ways to play. And if that doesn’t fit with England, then yeah, that’s it.

“We cannot change it. The player can only offer what he can offer and I, or Gareth or whoever, makes a decision if that fits in the way we play. The player has to accept that, that’s the world we live in.”