Arne Slot and Mohamed Salah called out as Liverpool legend slams 'desperate' Reds

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Estevao scored a 95th minute winner for the Londoners to inflict a third-successive defeat on the Premier League champions in all competitions.Having seen Arsenal beat West Ham United earlier in the day on Saturday, Liverpool’s latest loss saw them surrender top spot in the table to the Gunners.However, they had initially looked set to rescue a share of the spoils against Chelsea before their stoppage-time winner, having seen Cody Gakpo cancel out Moises Caicedo’s opener.READ MORE: Gary Neville slams four 'absolutely useless' Liverpool players in scathing putdownREAD MORE: Daniel Sturridge insists Liverpool are missing one player and points out Arne Slot mistakeSlot made full use of his maximum five substitutions against the Londoners, making attacking changes as he sent on Florian Wirtz for Conor Bradley at half-time with Curtis Jones and Andy Robertson then coming on for the injured Ibrahima Konate and Milos Kerkez in the 55th minute.Hugo Ekitike then replaced Alexander Isak in the 74th minute, before Slot prompted raised eyebrows in some sections when using his last change to send on Wataru Endo for Alexis Mac Allister in the 86th minute.Such a decision ultimately backfired with Estevao scoring the winner ten minutes later, while Liverpool were left with the likes of forward Federico Chiesa unused on the bench.Given the changes throughout the game, the Reds ended up with both Dominik Szoboszlai and Ryan Gravenberch playing in defence in the second half.And Nicol gave his verdict on such changes as he called his former side’s set-up ‘shambolic’ and accused them of playing ‘desperation football’ before singling out Mohamed Salah for criticism.“The goal comes because Robertson had just done 100 yards,” he said on ESPN. He had his hands on his knees because he was gasping for air.“That’s why they get the goal.

You’re stuck in a left back on who’s never going to be able to stick with Estevao or anybody else or Neto or anybody.“I mean, it’s just this by the end of the game, it’s a shambles. You turn your defence into people going forward.“Your front three, including Mo Salah, who right now couldn’t hit a barn door if he was standing in front of it.“Mo Salah is suffering more than anybody because of the fact that Liverpool cannot keep the ball.

They were guilty defensively of not defending properly.“They are so many things that were wrong with Liverpool, that have been wrong with them since the season started - not just today’s game.“He’s clinging onto a couple of chances that were half-chances. There’s not one chance in that game today when you’re saying Liverpool should score…“The truth of the matter is Chelsea were the better side and Liverpool were miles off it.”