Liverpool’s Autumn Struggles: Can the Champions Stop the Slide?

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At least, if you were placing a football bet on Liverpool to recover and lift the trophy, you’d find Arne Slot’s men out at 7/1. Cracks in the Foundation Liverpool’s recent defeats have followed a worrying pattern.

There’s no clear balance between control and aggression, and when that first line of pressure is broken, Virgil van Dijk and Ibrahima Konaté are left doing far too much firefighting. Slot’s effort to balance width with directness has yet to settle.

Even when they pulled one back at Brentford, it came from a rare cross rather than the slick passing moves that once defined Liverpool. Slot’s Liverpool still show flashes of quality, but too often they look uncertain, physically second best and short of belief.