National media react to 'demolished' Liverpool and 'utterly bereft' Arne Slot - 'where was the pride?'
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How the national media reacted to Liverpool's 3-0 defeat at home to Nottingham Forest in the Premier League on Saturday afternoonTalk about a year of two halves. Liverpool slumped to yet another miserable defeat with a dismal 3-0 Premier League reverse at home to lowly Nottingham Forest on Saturday afternoon.A controversial Murillo opener was added to in the second half by goals from Nicolo Savona and Morgan Gibbs-White to earn the Tricky Trees an easy victory.It ensured another intense few days of speculation over where things are going wrong for the Premier League champions.
"He looked like someone who had not seen this coming and yet all the deficiencies that have characterised Liverpool’s performances were evident again."The international break had offered Slot an opportunity to assess Liverpool’s dip in fortune and he seemed bullish that an improvement was around the corner notwithstanding injuries. Reality would bite hard."Alisson was back in goal for the first time since September 30 due to a hamstring injury, but the sight of him passing straight into touch having expected Milos Kerkez to be there merely illustrated the on-pitch difficulties that Slot’s side continue to experience."Andy Hunter, another ex-ECHO employee, didn't hold back in The Guardian when assessing the Reds' rubbishness."Liverpool, by contrast, dissolved into a mess as they slipped to an eighth defeat in 11 matches, a sixth loss in seven Premier League games, and into the bottom half of the table," he scribes."Poor at set pieces, again, ineffective up front, again, with Alexander Isak withdrawn after 68 anonymous minutes, and defensively weak, they toiled in all departments to suffer a 3-0 defeat for the second game in succession.
The last time Liverpool lost back-to-back league games by a three-goal margin was 1965."Memories of a strong first 30 minutes by Slot’s side, when Elliot Anderson made a brilliant headed block to deny Alexis Mac Allister on his goalline, were long gone by the time Gibbs-White put the game beyond doubt."Writing in the Daily Mail, Riath Al-Samarrai questioned whether the Liverpool players have the heart for a battle any more."Then there’s the will," he opines. For the first time since April 1965, they have lost successive league matches by three goals.