The stat was that this is the first time we lost four on the spin since Brendan’s days, so this can’t be true.
We had some horrible runs under Klopp, but there must have been some draws dotted about in that.
It’s not impossible that they could be above us in the table a week from now 
We won away in Salzburg between Leicester and Everton but the 4 losses on the spin in the league is very much real.
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All of this is true. No-one is immune to age and losing his legs. But in my opinion, Salah’s lack of capacity to influence our games comes also from a tactical tweak this season. He’s asked to stay on the touchline much more often, instead of venturing in and around the box. That makes him less dangerous for the opposition. He simply doesn’t get in his usual positions from where he’s lethal.
In my opinion, that’s more on Slot’s tactical instructions, rather than him losing his legs. Although the latter could also play a part of course, who knows, but Slot really needs to put him nearer to the goal. He’s a waste when isolated near the touchline.
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You ask this from a Dutchman? No chance. Total football or nothing! 
Frankfurt is our Sheffield United…Problem is we lost 2 more after that before that excellent run that got us CL.
After reading that, I will never disrespect @Mascot EVER… don’t want to be made into a rap diss while being banned at the same time
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in 2021 we had a win in the CL within that run of 4 league losses. This is 4 consecutive losses in all competitions.
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I dont know that he’s much less involved this year that he was last year. The productivity really masked a more or less constant frustration that we seemed like we were playing with 10 players last year. Mo stayed on the periphery of most games, often looking off the pace even when the ball came to him, before some how popping up to score or assist. It was a season of remarkable efficiency.
This year the most critical observation of Mo is that he’s wasting opportunities all over the shop, often quite pathetically. I think it was the Bournemouth game where there were 3 chances in about 10 mins where he failed to even get a shot off such was his bad control or the time he wanted to take. Mo of last year is still probably on 6 or 7 league goals already even with as uninvolved as he’s been.
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He hasn’t the supporting players like before either.
He used to have Trent or Bradley now Bradley stays deeper. Also a midfielder like Hendo or Szoboszlai. These days often he looks very isolated. It’s different.
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On the balance of play and chances we should have won that game by two or three goals. Unfortunately we didn’t. So there’s a lot of introspection. It hurts because we all hate losing. It hurts more because that’s three league losses in a row. It hurts even more again because it was Man Utd. The last thing I want to see is them getting some wind in their sails from a win at Anfield. Ugh.
Slot and his team have work to do.
I’m backing us to get there. It might turn into a bit of a transitional season, it all depends how quickly we snap out of this. It might be a case of taking one step backwards before two steps forward, and right now, in the step backwards phase, it’s unpleasant.
Bench Salah. Play Wirtz behind Isak and Ekitike. On current form Jones for Macca. Szobo in midfield. Frimpong and Kerkez with stamina to offer some width.
This can all turn quickly, in a much better direction.
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This is very worrying. Kerkez looks lost, Mo is doing nowt, Isak looked like Voronin when he went through on goal and rolled it straight at the keepers leg, No idea why Frimpong isn’t getting much time, Alexis looks a shadow of his former self (glad he’s ok after the knock though), Gakpo blows hot and cold, but mostly slows our attck down and Mamadashvilli has a very long way to go to replace Kelleher! He has looked far from being anywhere near top level to me. Need him blocking that first goal, he doesn’t command his area (even the 6 yard area) and most of his kicking is like Mignolet 2.0 (except one great pass in the first half against Manure)
I could go on and on! The strangest thing for me is the tactics though. Knocking the ball around at the back when United were 1-0 up and they were not pressing our players was just plain bizarre! If they were pressing us then I’d get it if we’re trying to draw them in and open up space to launch attacks, but that really wasn’t the case!
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Do you know what we missed a bit of yesterday (at least until the subs came on), a bit of this…
Bosssshhhh!
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Darwin The Destroyer
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Cody putting a free header wide from in the six yard box and Mo slicing his shot with seemingly the wrong side of his boot…it looked like a Darwin tribute act.
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Another summation from this time, a wound up Eddie Gibbs…!!
I liked the line when he states there is no aggression 
*No Plan, No Rhythm, No Excuse #LFC 1-2 #MUFC *
*Arne Slot is managing Liverpool like a man pretending nothing is wrong. Three defeats in a row before the international break, and yet his response was to name the same eleven that lost at Chelsea. That is not faith in players, that is managerial negligence. He looks paralysed. No tactical adjustments, no accountability, just endless recycling of failing ideas while the few in-form players he does have watch from the bench.
Then there’s Richard Hughes, tasked with recruitment and who most of us, me included, would have given an A+ for his summer window. Frustratingly, though, the rebuild now looks like a spree without any tactical blueprint pre-agreed with his manager. We brought in Frimpong, Wirtz, Kerkez, Isak and Ekitike; yet Slot behaves as if they’re novelty items. Why stockpile elite attackers if you refuse to build a system that accommodates them? Why are we watching Cody Gakpo drift around like furniture while Federico Chiesa, our most effective forward statistically so far this season, gets treated like an occasional guest?
The midfield is a disaster of the manager’s own making. Slot has dismantled his engine room without building a new one. What’s left is incoherent. Mac Allister looks lost, slow, and utterly miscast. He’s being asked to cover ground he can’t manage and make decisions under pressure that his current form doesn’t support. Every time he’s bypassed or caught on the ball, the whole structure collapses. Dominik Szoboszlai is being forced into a hybrid right-back role he clearly hates, and it shows. Curtis Jones, the most tactically disciplined of the lot, is fit, fresh and completely sidelined. Wirtz, the most creative midfielder at the club, is treated like a luxury sub. It’s nonsense.
There’s no control, no pressing triggers, no structure. The midfield is neither winning the ball nor protecting the defence. It is simply existing. And that failure sits squarely with Slot, who has either refused to adapt his system or is too proud to accept that his first idea isn’t working. This isn’t adaptation, it’s tactical vanity.
But the biggest scandal might just be Aaron Briggs. He was given control of set-pieces and Liverpool have somehow become even more calamitous at both ends. We are conceding from routine deliveries and wasting every opportunity of our own. Corners look improvised. Defensive organisation resembles playground chaos. What exactly qualified him for this role? Because nothing on the pitch suggests specialist coaching is happening. It seems like guesswork. Liverpool’s problems aren’t bad luck or fine margins. They are structural. There’s no aggression, no partnerships, no identity. The midfield is permanently outnumbered because Slot keeps picking pretty combinations instead of functional ones. He talks about chances and possession as if territory wins trophies. It doesn’t. Authority does.
If Slot wants to keep his authority, he needs to show it. Drop underperformers. Reward form. Stop picking players based on what they did last season. And for God’s sake, coach a set-piece routine that doesn’t look like it was drawn with Crayola. Liverpool are not in decline because of injuries, referees or transition. They are in decline because the manager is stubborn, the recruiter has potentially overcomplicated the squad, and the set-piece coach is out of his depth. It can still be fixed; nothing is terminal yet, but only if egos get parked and hard decisions get made. Otherwise, this slide becomes destiny.*
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Does Eddie want some clean sheets for the bed he’s just shit?
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Ekitike left one on slabhead just before he scored. He was down for a good minute or more but didn’t have to go off the pitch which I found odd.
Well, right now we’re getting Total Nothing 
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What a disapointing result yesterday.
Our defence was a shambles. We did have some good opportunties to score, Cody kept hitting the post. We should have scored a few goals. I think, if thpse goals had gonebin, just maybe, it wpuld have been a game changer. Luck was not on our side.
I didn’t think Man Utd were great, they were lucky. I can see them getting beaten by other teams later on in the season.
Arne really needs to sort the team out and find a way to get the team together and tighten the defence.
We just have to move on from this result and hope for the best. Let’s hope we have better result in the upcoming Champions League game.
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