Liverpool ignoring 'basic principle of football' as Arne Slot gets verdict

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Former Liverpool player and coach Sammy Lee has criticized Arne Slot’s side, claiming it lacks a “basic principle of football”. The Premier League champions have been heavily scrutinized following Saturday’s 3-2 loss at Brentford, which continued Liverpool’s sequence of Premier League defeats.

Much has changed since Slot’s team was routinely swotting Premier League teams aside last season, and despite a summer of heavy expenditure, Liverpool has taken a backward step in the early months of the new term. Long balls and second balls we very rarely won, and it is a basic principle of football.” Sammy Lee has been part of the coaching team at Liverpool under six different managers He is not the only ex-Red in recent days to express their concern about Saturday’s performance.

“Liverpool have to look at the physicality and height within their team because, right now, I don't think they have enough.” Slot has faced mounting criticism since the defeat against Brentford (Image: Getty Images) The stats don’t make for good reading, and Liverpool has kept just two clean sheets in its last 19 matches stretching back to last season. Another former Liverpool star, John Aldridge, has called for Slot to change his approach in the wake of the Brentford loss.