Slot was shouting from the touchline to put the ball out so the Sub could be made. It’s absolutely astonishing that we played seven minutes with ten men.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a ten minute sequence where a goal and the circumstances around it so directly lead to a second.
Something that has gone unnoticed until recently is the substandard fitness of most players. It can be a contributing factor to many of the issues at hand, especially towards the end of the games.
Seriously, you are blaming Slot for this and thinking it is ok for a Liverpool player to do this and jeopardise our top 4 hopes, if there was any semblance of him doing this he needs kicking out of the club!
Yes, we don’t really know all of the reasons that things have gone so stale this season. There have been so many changes this season, planned and unplanned and Arne does seem to have lost his way quite a bit, but I agree that we should at the very least show him some basic respect and patience. It can’t be great to know that so many people think you’re shit and seem happy to say so. He probably realises by now that if he can’t turn things around in the next few months then he’s gone, so how does that feel for the guy? Still trying to set things right again whilst knowing it will likely bring him just faint praise at best from so many. Until he’s no longer our head coach, let’s just remember that he still is, and show some respect instead of negative personal comments. Of course it’s been frustrating, but let’s give him a fucking break. He can still turn things around.
Ektike had not been on long and look at the poor effort he put in, I was all for getting rid of Nunez but he woukd have chased the player down.
If the players had worked hard to try and prevent that phase of play, I would respect them, but would also see it as a failing from the coaching and how we protect when in possession
Regarding the fitness I was one of the 1st to start mentioning it this season.
The Nunez that joined or the one in his last 8 months who came on for the last 20 minutes and barely noticed a game was going on around him?
He didn’t press as well but he wouldn’t have given up on that
I remember watching one game and he came on and literally stood in the centre circle. He was absolutely atrocious at the end, now that again could be down to Slot or himself losing interest but he went from being someone who chased stuff down and shot off target to not even bothering.
Remember the day when CB’s were made of steel rather than biscuits, what happened?
I don’t disagree his effort flagged when he knew his days were numbered
What outside noise is he going on about? He must be on x reading about how crap he is, he’s has it very very easy so far. I wish some of these guys asking questions would ask him why the fuck he keeps mentioning PSG and telling all our rivals he has no ideas how to beat a low block. Rodgers was not this stupid and he takes some beating.
Well yes. Surely it’s Slot who should be impressing on players what is the minimum. Gravenberch should have been dressed down a few times at least this season imo. Others as well.
Ekitikè as well.
However noone made an attempt to even slow the player down despite Ekitikè being close enough to help out.
I don’t know what’s going on however it’s obvious there’s a number of players getting a free ride. That’s the managers domain. If a player isn’t putting the effort in defensively they shouldn’t be an automatic selection. So imo it’s all on Slot.
I have often commented on Gravenberch not helping out the right back and this is just another example of him not ‘wanting’ to do the graft. He’s not the only one. In fact I’d say the whole team doesn’t want to any dirty work except a few like Bradley. Where is the physicality?
A lot Iot I agree with, apart from it is all on Slot.
Players are played immense amounts of cash to play and need to have pride in what they do.
As for Grav, I don’t see him lacking in effort and he does help RB a lot but that should also be on Szob and Mo who both predominantly play on the right.
However, I feel that our midfielders are very poor at tracking runners in the inside channel between our CB’s and FB’s
There’s an interesting concept of 20-80 - where 20% do 80% of the work… I wonder how this translates to management and the playing staff. Who is in which category? I Dom in fact doing 99.9% of the work???
It’s a bit factitious but I have wondered how this translates into sport.
At Premier League football clubs up and down the country analysts are rushing into the managers office to breathlessly tell them that Slot has accidentally revealed that Liverpool struggle with a low block, as if that wasn’t patently fucking obvious to anyone with a brain watching ten minutes of us play football this year.
Why do people keep mentioning about us struggling with a low block, when all teams struggle against it, that is why teams use a low block as it denies opposing teams space.
There is no easy solution, you just have to keep beating at the door and rely on a mistake, some individual skill or great finishing to unlock it
What needs to be looked at is how teams then transition and find too much space to attack us with pace.
What is Arsenals answer, set pieces.
City’s, none, they are strugglng as well.
Probably because the manager keeps mentioning it even after the win against Marseille in a different competition completely. 
If only Slot would stop mentioning the low block, then opposition might not realise that we struggle with it, and we’d have loads of space to run into. It’s not as if clubs have shit loads of analysts looking at this stuff 
Probably his way of trying to disguise his failures and throw the interviewer off and the obsession with PSG is weird.
I agree that players need to take responsibility, however it has to be noted that Slot has removed a lot of the responsibility and leadership on the pitch.
Klopp had a formal leadership group (Salah, Robertson, TAA, Becker, Mac Allister and VvD). Earlier on including Milner, Henderson and Wijnaldum.
It wasn’t just symbolic. It created a hierarchy, standards, and accountability structures during games.
Slot has moved away from that. He’s redistributed responsibility, flattened the hierarchy, and in some cases taken decision making away from the senior players. That might be part of his philosophy which is fine but the consequence is that in difficult moments, no one naturally steps up because the roles aren’t as clearly defined as under Klopp.
The players should take responsibility, absolutely. But the manager also shapes the environment in which responsibility exists.