The biggest surprises from Liverpool's defeat in Turkey

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However, Tuesday’s clash with Galatasaray has some Liverpool fans​' worries​ turning into actual issues that should be addressed and amended.We’re two months into the season, and it’s been up and down to say the least. With the players we have, we need to be performing better over the course of the game.Naturally, ​opposition teams will have spells where they push and apply pressure, but we need to be better at defending that, which I’ll get on it very shortly.Galatasaray-vs-Liverpool-UEFA-Champions-League-2025-26-MD2 | BURAK BASTURK/GettyImages1-0 down and away in the Champions League, and I can’t remember a ball getting knocked into the middle of the park in the last 20 minutes.

We’re easy to defend against because we aren’t utilizing what we have. That move pushed Wirtz out to the left, where he’s shown against Palace that he cannot play.Had Rio Ngumoha come on, it would have given the opposition something different to think about, but instead, we cast our $150 million number 10 out to the left and we didn’t hear from him again.Slot has shown this year on a couple of occasions that he doesn’t always get the substitution correct.

He is very lucky that we have very little cover for him because if it were any other position on the pitch, he’d be hooked until Christmas.He’s lacking confidence, he’s nervous​, and has been our sloppiest passer all season. Whilst we’re a patient bunch, we need to see something a little different against Chelsea, otherwise we’ll be sitting here at the weekend repeating ourselves.​It's frustrating football at the moment, but maybe it has been like that all season and we were just distracted by the result.