Liverpool 0-3 Forest: 5 talking points as fresh ridicule will force Slot change

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Slot needs to get ugly Just prior to the recent international break Jamie Carragher curated a segment in his Sky Sports analysis on Liverpool’s failings against the heavily stacked, low-block teams. It’s a system which feels likely to keep Salah very comfortable, but it does beg the question of whether Liverpool will simply revert to being over reliant on their No.11 again.

If you think back to the best Liverpool teams of (very recent) years, there is one common function seen time and time again; the team ebbs and flows as one unit. Jurgen Klopp‘s Liverpool powered out from the back, with solid centre halves linking up with the midfield engine room.

It’s not that this team can’t do so, they managed more than adequately last season en route to becoming champions at a canter, but now the frost has set in. In Isak Liverpool have one of, if not the, best finisher in European football.