{"id":13811,"date":"2025-10-26T13:20:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T11:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/we-need-to-find-answers-to-stop-liverpool-slide\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:36","slug":"we-need-to-find-answers-to-stop-liverpool-slide","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/we-need-to-find-answers-to-stop-liverpool-slide\/","title":{"rendered":"‘We need to find answers to stop Liverpool slide’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Liverpool M<\/span>anager Arne Slot said opponents have identified a winning strategy against his Premier League champions and he needs to find a solution fast after a 3-2 defeat at Brentford on Saturday made it four league losses in a row.<\/p>\n

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Their title defence had begun well but defeats at Crystal Palace, Chelsea and Brentford, as well as last week\u2019s 2-1 home defeat by Manchester United, have knocked the Dutchman\u2019s side off the rails.<\/p>\n

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Slot said the loss at Brentford was arguably the worst performance in their slump as\u00a0Liverpool\u00a0<\/span>were deservedly beaten by a side who ruthlessly exploited their fragility.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve said this many times already that teams have a certain playing style against us, which is a very good strategy to play, and we haven\u2019t found an answer yet,\u201d Slot told reporters.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAlso going 1-0 down doesn\u2019t really help as well after five minutes. But even today, when we don\u2019t play well, we\u2019re able to score two goals and create more chances from open play.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Liverpool\u00a0<\/span>have conceded early goals in each of their four Premier League defeats and went behind at Eintracht Frankfurt in the Champions League on Wednesday before storming back to win 5-1.<\/p>\n

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SOFT EARLY GOAL<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The way they conceded the first goal to Brentford after five minutes was especially frustrating for Slot who said they had spent Friday preparing for Brentford\u2019s long throws.<\/p>\n

They could not deal with\u00a0Michael Kayode\u2019s delivery, however, and when Kristoffer Ajer flicked the ball on\u00a0<\/span>Dango Ouattara\u00a0reacted superbly to hook his volley past Giorgi Mamardashvili.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey won more duels than us, they won more second balls than us and if you come here and you know if you are going to concede goals then one of them may be a set-piece and a counterattack is also one of their biggest strengths and that\u2019s how we conceded two goals,\u201d Slot said.<\/p>\n

Liverpool\u00a0<\/span>spent more than 400 million Pounds ($508 million) in the summer transfer window on Florian Wirtz, Hugo Ekitike, Milos Kerkez and Alexander Isak but have looked a shadow of the side that won the club\u2019s record-equalling 20th league title in Slot\u2019s first season.<\/p>\n

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They have lost four of their opening nine games, as many as they did in the whole of last season.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf you change quite a lot during the summer, then I think it\u2019s not a surprise that it can go a bit like this, but I didn\u2019t expect it to go with four losses in a row,\u201d Slot said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s always a bit of a bumpy road, but four losses in a row. We\u2019ve also played five of the last six games away from home which is not helpful when we are in the run of form we are.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Former\u00a0Liverpool\u00a0<\/span>captain Jordan Henderson, impressive once again for Brentford in midfield, said he expected his old club to pull out of their slump.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI know there\u2019s been results of late that haven\u2019t been great for them but, for me, they\u2019re still top players and a top, top team and it\u2019s a matter of time before they get in a rhythm and get going,\u201d the England international said.<\/p>\n

–Reuters–<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13373,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-13811","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Liverpool Manager Arne Slot said opponents have identified a winning strategy against his Premier League champions","published_date":"2025-10-26 15:20:17","news_description":"Liverpool Manager Arne Slot said opponents have identified a winning strategy against his Premier League champions","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18758,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13811\/revisions\/18758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}