After a low-key start – which saw the Blades almost stun Anfield by means of taking the lead internal the first minute when James McAtee spurned a tremendous danger – Jurgen Klopp’s hosts have been given a leg-up following an lousy blooper by way of Grbic on 19 minutes.
The Croatian custodian fatally delayed for some distance too long when he had the ball at his ft and the alert Darwin Nunez nipped it to block his try pass-out from the lower back and the rebound crept into the internet – to the remedy and mirth of tens of hundreds of home supporters.
But a world-class strike from a World Cup winner in Alexis Mac Allister restored Liverpool’s lead and substitute Cody Gakpo introduced a late third.
On Grbic, Wilder, whose side host Chelsea on Sunday, said: “Listen, he makes a mistake. It should go anywhere.
“Unfortunately it is ricocheted in, he’s made a mistake, he is taken too long.
“Fair play to Nunez, who’s gone and shut him down, however that ball can go somewhere and lamentably it goes in the again of the net. I’m not searching at that.
“Everybody makes mistakes. McAtee’s mistake is just as large as the one at the different end of the pitch.
“Forwards pass over goals, midfield gamers misplace passes or tackles. When goalkeepers make mistakes, it usually goes in the back of the net. I’m searching at his reaction and I concept his response was excellent.”
