Liverpool news: Jamie Carragher hands Arne Slot £100m warning as Reds boss explains team issues
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Arne Slot will be hoping to stop Liverpool's losing run to two games as they travel to Chelsea on Saturday but he's been given advice by a Reds legend to drop one of his major starsLiverpool are in desperate need to earn a positive result against Chelsea on Saturday after suffering their second consecutive defeat. The Premier League clash at Stamford Bridge will follow the Reds' surprise 1-0 loss to Galatasaray in the Champions League.While many expected Arne Slot's side to bounce back in Europe after their last-minute capitulation to Crystal Palace last weekend, it was yet another abject performance by the league champions, who lost Alisson Becker and Hugo Ekitike to injury during the match.Despite starting the season off with seven wins in a row, their performances were far from convincing.
It’s just end-to-end and I don’t think top teams play like that, and I expressed that to the manager early on."He’s obviously a fantastic manager, but right now Liverpool went from a top team, but also a workman-like team, and they sprinkled a bit of stardust on it in terms of the transfers they brought in. "He’s a young boy, coming to a new league, and has plenty of time to go."But right now, he needs to come out of the team, Liverpool get back to what they were last season, and then go from there to try to build some confidence and some stability.
The Reds are still top of the Premier League and remain one of the favourites for the Champions League but consecutive defeats to Palace and Galatasaray has shone a light on their deficiencies.Speaking after the game, Slot said: "What you see is, and I think I explained this many times, is that there are a few players from us that missed pre-season so you simply cannot play them every single [game]. That means that it is not always that I want to rotate but sometimes I need to because a player is not ready to play three times 90 minutes in seven or eight days."Similar to Pep Guardiola, Slot voiced his dislike of a 25-man squad but admitted the smaller size of his team has the potential to cause issues should they suffer multiple injuries simultaneously."I like my squad so much, but we don’t have 25 or 26 [players], so if we end up with two, three or four injuries, 15 or 16 players, where Rio and Trey are two of these 15 or 16, then need to play almost all the minutes and then things can become complicated," he explained."But this is a decision we have made together, I completely believe in this, because if you have 25 [players] it’s very hard to manage your squad.