5 talking points as Ibrahima Konate’s mistakes continue and issues to ponder

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Liverpool succumbed to back-to-back defeats under Arne Slot for only the second time with a horribly disjointed performance at Galatasaray that was compounded by two injury concerns. Perhaps Slot has previously felt that time is all his players needed to finally click and put on the 90-minute performance they have lacked so far.

It has to be said, Liverpool are missing Alexander-Arnold Is this the first time so far this season that Liverpool have looked to be missing Trent Alexander-Arnold? It certainly felt like it as they struggled time and time again to play their way through an aggressive Galatasaray press.

Unfortunately for Slot, Alexander-Arnold isn’t going to return to his team, and so he is going to have find solutions in build-up with the tools currently at his disposal. That will inevitably be more difficult with Alisson out injured, with Slot confirming “he’s definitely not going to play,” and Hugo Ekitike a doubt after being forced off.