Arne Slot Liverpool truth clear after defeats, delays, deleted polls and untimely reminders

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Ian Doyle looks ahead to Liverpool's Champions League clash at Eintracht Frankfurt after Arne Slot's toughest spell as the club's head coach continuedIt seemed wholly appropriate for a Liverpool team struggling for lift-off this season. The Reds saw their departure for tonight's crucial Champions League clash at Eintracht Frankfurt delayed by four hours due to technical difficulties with their flight to Germany on Tuesday.While ultimately only an inconvenience, it was nevertheless a further obstacle in a testing week for Liverpool boss Arne Slot, who was given an unwelcome reminder of recent Anfield past the previous day.The timing may have been coincidental.

Slot has more than sufficient credit in the bank by masterminding the Reds' romp to a record-equalling 20th championship last season.And after influencing a £450million rebuild of his squad during the summer, the Liverpool boss is still very much in the formative stages of determining the best combinations and partnerships throughout his new-look team.Unlike on his arrival, he doesn’t have the luxury of sifting through months of previous training footage of this squad. This obvious campaign of transition - after such significant movements in the squad, it can only be termed thus - is perhaps what may have been anticipated 12 months previous.Nevertheless, the former Feyenoord boss is facing the biggest challenge of his Anfield tenure to date, the first task being to avoid the Reds losing five games in a row for the first time since 1953 here in Germany this evening.While Liverpool opened their Champions League campaign with a narrow 3-2 win over Atletico Madrid before losing 1-0 to Galatasaray, Frankfurt thrashed the Turkish team 5-1 at home in their opener before slumping by the same scoreline at Diego Simeone's side.Goals are pretty much guaranteed at the Deutsche Bank Arena this evening with Frankfurt's 10 games this season having a whopping total of 54.And Slot has warned his players to expect a red-hot atmosphere in front of a sell-out 58,000 crowd."Frankfurt is maybe a bit similar to Galatasaray, a stadium where the fans will be really loud," he said."So, apart from the quality Frankfurt have, this is something we have to take into account as well.

But our players are used to playing in these circumstances."It's a strong team that has done very well in the Bundesliga and in Europe."Hugo Ekitike will be hoping to put Alexander Isak under pressure for a start at the club from which he was brought for £79m in the summer, while both Florian Wirtz and Jeremie Frimpong are pushing for a recall on their return to Germany."It's always special for every player if you go to one of your former clubs, especially if you did really well.," said Slot."I think not only he likes to go back over there, I think the fans over there like to see him as well for what he did for the club, because he was part of the team that brought them to the Champions League."Special for Florian as well to go back to Germany and play there. If you play three games in seven days, it would maybe be smart to use them all as well."LIVERPOOL EXPECTED LINE-UP (4-2-3-1): Mamardashvili; Bradley, Konate, Van Dijk, Robertson; Szoboszlai, Jones; Frimpong, Wirtz, Gakpo; Ekitike.Watch Eintracht Frankfurt vs Liverpool on TNT SportsThis article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on any sales we generate from it.