Christian Benteke will regret these comments made before Liverpool’s loss to West Ham

Liverpool fans will appreciate Christian Benteke’s ambition – but the timing of these comments has proved rather unfortunate.

Prior to Saturday’s game away to West Ham, the Liverpool striker spoke about how the Reds should be aiming to win the Premier League, and how it’s a possibility this season due to the open nature of the competition.

Benteke had scored two winning goals in Liverpool’s last two games, leaving the club five points off the Champions League spots, so things were looking up. Right?

“You think about winning the title!” @LFC‘s @chrisbenteke insists there is no favourite this season. #FletchAndSav https://t.co/cz5Htr9vEr

— Fletch And Sav (@FletchAndSav) January 2, 2016

Guess what happened next?

Yep, Liverpool lost 2-0 away to West Ham, and Christian Benteke had a stinker.

Christian Benteke's game by numbers:

0 shots on target
75% pass accuracy
0 take-ons
15% aerial duels won (2/13)

Not at his best.

— Squawka (@Squawka) January 2, 2016

Maybe next year, Christian.

Andy Carroll looking worth every penny of the £2.5m more that Liverpool paid for him than Christian Benteke today.

— Karl Matchett (@karlmatchett) January 2, 2016

never been easy to understand why rodgers spent £30m+ on benteke when his first act at LFC had been to get rid of andy carroll

— Ken Early (@kenearlys) January 2, 2016

Percentage of aerial duels won by Christian Benteke thus far: 10%

And that's a strength of his.#LFC

— Melissa Reddy (@MelissaReddy_) January 2, 2016