Slot should be ashamed at damning statistic emerging about Liverpool's season after Brighton defeat - opinion

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Liverpool fell to a predictable defeat against Brighton on Saturday as they failed to build on a good midweek win over Galatasaray.As it often has been this season, the Reds’ performance was feeble, weak and without creativity as they sleepwalked their way to a 10th loss of a miserable Premier League season.Perhaps the worst aspect of the defeat was the manner in which Liverpool were outbattled by Brighton all over the pitch. Photo by Liverpool FC/Liverpool FC via Getty Images Shameful Liverpool continuously outworkedIt is helpful to exactly nobody to keep harking back to the good old days of Liverpool under Jurgen Klopp.

Nevertheless, the difference between the work Klopp’s teams put in and the effort of the current group under Arne Slot is simply night and day.You can be outworked and still come away with a win, as Liverpool have clearly done many times this season, but to keep letting it happen is simply not good enough.The Reds used to be the fittest team in the league by a distance. Just another Liverpool game.

But that is why these Liverpool players are operating at the very top of the sport. He and his players have a lot to answer to for the way this season has unravelled, and when they look in the mirror at the end of the campaign, they absolutely cannot claim to have given it everything they’ve got.