Gary Lineker says what every Liverpool fan has been thinking about start to season

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Slot has admitted that his side has been letting opponents back into contests too readily, and it's true that Liverpool surely can't keep winning it in stoppage time all season.

But at the same time, Liverpool has come through an opening five games that was statistically the third-toughest in the division, behind only Manchester United and Arsenal.

Now, as the fixture list begins to relent a little (albeit not much) and the additions begin to click, Liverpool could not be any better placed.



Virgil van Dijk celebrates a late winner for Liverpool against Atletico Madrid.

Widely regarded as among the very best strikers in the world, that will not hurt Liverpool's firepower.

As for the defense, Liverpool has the fourth-lowest expected goals conceded in the division

If anything, the anomaly isn't that Liverpool keeps scoring these late goals — it's that it keeps needing them

Even with so much room to improve, Slot's side are consistently doing enough to win games, and it's essentially a statistical quirk that those winners are coming in such dramatic fashion.

So Lineker is completely right to say that Liverpool don't need to be worried