I know key change Liverpool must now make but I'm worried about obvious problem

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And that isn’t any more evident than in the right-back position.Neither Conor Bradley nor Jeremie Frimpong have managed to properly lock down that jersey at present, although to be fair both have been hampered by injury already this season.But it says much that in the second half at Crystal Palace, Arne Slot chose to push Dominik Szoboszlai into that role. He clearly doesn’t have the confidence in Bradley and Frimpong just now.

That will obviously change over time, and Frimpong did come on at right wing in the second half even if it wasn’t his best performance.It’s clear replacing Trent Alexander-Arnold won’t be an easy fix and Mohamed Salah is suffering a bit without his former team-mate.Yes, Salah is still posting pretty good numbers this season in terms of goals and assists but his performances have been a bit hit and miss.One thing that might help him and the attack in general is if Liverpool start looking to attack the far post more often.Salah was crowded out by Palace defenders on Saturday and that is not unusual. But if that’s the case, then there will be other players free and Liverpool have had great joy in recent years at capitalising on that and having the opposite winger drift in at the other post.We aren’t doing that anywhere near as much right now.

Luis Diaz became an expert at drifting in last season while Salah has always profited from it.The full-backs should also have licence to do that - in the old days, Phil Neal and Chris Lawler were experts - and maybe that is something they will become accustomed to once Slot settles on his preferred duo in those wide defensive positions.Chelsea won't be easyI’ve always thought Arsenal would be Liverpool’s main challengers for the Premier League title and events at the weekend made it official.I was impressed with the manner in which they came from behind to win at Newcastle United late on, and that will give them a lot of belief.There’s no doubt Liverpool haven’t been firing on all cylinders this season and there are those who believe we don’t deserve to have as many as 15 points this season.That might be true and we do need to start backing up that good start now. But our fixture list hasn’t been the easiest and it continues over the next few Premier League games.Chelsea might be missing a lot of players in defence and haven’t had the best of recent results, but they will be dangerous on Saturday.Liverpool were awful at Stamford Bridge last season having already won the league, and while the pressure will be on the Londoners, we are going to have to do a lot better defensively.We have to start keeping clean sheets, but I can’t see where they are coming from right now unless Alisson Becker has another worldie.