National media scathing of latest Liverpool defeat at Wolves - 'That should embarrass them'
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A look at how the national media reacted to Liverpool's 2-1 defeat to Wolves at MolineuxLiverpool slumped to their ninth defeat of the Premier League season as rock-bottom Wolves scored a stoppage-time winner at Molinuex in the first of this week's double header.After Mohamed Salah had cancelled out Rodrigo Gomes' opener in a frantic finale in the Black Country, it was Andre Trindade who struck a 93rd-minute winner, via a Joe Gomez deflection, to seal the points for Rob Edwards' team, who secured just their third win of the campaign.As ever, the ECHO was on the road with the Reds, supplying our exhaustive match-day coverage. Andre’s goal came in the 94th minute, the fifth time in this campaign Liverpool have thrown a game away.
His side are record breakers in the wrong sense, the first team in Premier League history to lose five matches in a season due to 90th-minute goals. 'The three times we lost in the last 22 games were all three in extra time,' Slot said after Wolves, like Bournemouth and Manchester City before them, struck at the death."Include the late equalisers Fulham and Leeds got and Liverpool have let nine points slip through their grasp in injury time. The drop-off in that area this year is significant - albeit with the caveat that there are still games to go - with Gakpo and Salah having just the 19 between them (20 with Salah's late strike here)."But it's not just goal contributions - they have failed to affect games in the same way Liverpool's wide men did last year, which will be a major concern for Slot and Co - even if Salah did find the net in the league for the first time since the start of November."FOLLOW OUR LIVERPOOL FC FACEBOOK PAGE!
All the latest news and analysis from Anfield on the Liverpool Echo's dedicated LFC Facebook pageIn The Times, Paul Joyce writes: "There had been just two defeats in Liverpool’s previous 21 matches and yet Slot was largely none the wiser as to how his team would perform."Sloppy and slapdash as in the opening half of their previous away game which came at Nottingham Forest? Just when the Liverpool boss had thought this season had thrown everything at him, along came another reminder of why his team continue to scrabble around among the also-rans in the hope of salvaging Champions League qualification."It was bad enough the Reds slumped to yet another last-gasp defeat to miss the opportunity to, at least temporarily, move back into the top four."But that it came against a team that had previously won just two of 29 Premier League games and had long given up hope of survival made this arguably the most embarrassing defeat of a campaign that continues to offer so many contenders."Was it misfortune that Liverpool, having dragged themselves level when Mohamed Salah ended his goal drought to equalise substitute Rodrigo Gomes’s opener, were ultimately undone by Andre’s shot taking a massive deflection off Joe Gomez four minutes into injury time?