Arne Slot says £40m star is ‘not used’ to Liverpool demands after Chelsea loss

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Liverpool boss Arne Slot (Picture: Getty) Arne Slot said he is still having to manage Milos Kerkez’s minutes after the Liverpool defender was brought off early during their 2-1 defeat against Chelsea. The Hungarian international has started all of Liverpool’s seven Premier League fixtures so far this campaign, but has not quite managed to replicate the form he showed under Andoni Iraola last season.

Sign up to our newsletter and then select your team in the link we’ll send you so we can get football news tailored to you. ‘Milos was more and more tired – he played 90 minutes in two games and now for the third game in a week, which he’s not used to when he played at Bournemouth’ Slot told Sky Sports. ‘You could feel and see it got more and more difficult to keep going and their wingers are a threat so we decided to make a change over there.’ Metro at the Match: Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool Metro at the Match returns to bring you all the analysis from the biggest games of the season. Here are our team’s key takeaways from Chelsea’s dramatic 2-1 win over Liverpool.

Kerkez and Konate at the root of Liverpool woes Liverpool’s ability to move the ball out from the back has understandably taken a hit with Trent Alexander-Arnold no longer on the scene. Kerez struggled again at Stamford Bridge (Picture: Getty) Criticism around Konate has been growing and Arne Slot’s decision to hook him 10 minutes into the second-half and move Ryan Gravenberch back into defence told its own story.