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Arne SlottExcellence against Dutch clubs led him to liverpoolNow it is a sign of how everything is going wrong for Slote, even as that skill seems to be deserting him, that humiliation at the hands of a club from his homeland has led him to admit that it is normal to wonder whether he can stay at Anfield,
As peter bosz There was the Dutch master in the dugout, who combined the scalps of the English champions with their Italian counterparts Hardly credibly, Liverpool suffered their ninth defeat in 12 games, and they didn’t just lose. They were hammered historically PSV Eindhoven.
Twelfth in the Premier League, 13th in the Champions League, pipped by PSV, it is slot and crisis time for Liverpool. “It’s a shock for everyone, for the players, for me, it’s very unexpected,” he said.
The realist in him admitted that the scale of Liverpool’s decline was such that there was talk of dismissal. But not, he said, from Liverpool’s powerbrokers.
“I feel safe, I am fine. I have got a lot of support from the top,” he said. “It would be nice to turn it around and get wins but if you are working as a coach and not performing well, it is normal that questions are asked. I am fine with my situation. They don’t call every single minute of the day to say that they have confidence in me. In the normal conversations we have, I feel confident.”
Which may need to be repaid. The Anfield crowd met the less flattering verdict with applause at the final whistle; They may have been loud, but many people had already left. He had seen enough; Many people had reached this decision even before Kouhaib Driuch’s second goal.
This meant that, for the first time since 1953, Liverpool had lost three consecutive games by three goals. And that, for context, came last season when they were relegated. It was Liverpool’s joint-heaviest European defeat at Anfield, but the second to Real Madrid. PSV came to Anfield as underdogs and yet followed suit.
Now Liverpool’s fortress has been breached twice in five days, first by Nottingham Forest and now by PSV, recording famous victories. Liverpool managed to become the most favored of hosts by making a series of errors ranging from the bizarre to the tragically predictable. They reached a dilapidated state; It’s almost becoming a ritual.
Slote said that the number of goals Liverpool have scored this season is ridiculous. Four more deaths took the number to 34. It would be an understatement to say that the latest could have been avoided. There were a variety of defensive deficiencies; The first was almost incomprehensible, the remaining three were very familiar.
It seemed that Liverpool’s malaise had also affected the nervousness unsurprisingly virgil van dijkThe captain admitted that Liverpool was in trouble, He combined this with a sudden display of goalkeeping, with a raised hand turning away Joey Weerman’s corner, leading to the early breakthrough, The centre-back argued that he was pushed by his Netherlands teammate Jerdy Schouten, Referee Alejandro Hernandez disagreed, and Ivan Perisic awarded a penalty,
Looking for redemption, Van Dijk headed Mohamed Salah’s corner over the bar. Yet a cathartic retreat eluded him. It was the 10th time in 12 matches that Liverpool had conceded an early goal. But like some others, they pulled level only to fall behind again.
“I don’t think this is the time to emphasize individual errors,” Slott said. There were almost too many to document. For the second goal, Mauro Junior escaped Salah very easily and delivered a beautiful cross. Gus Till passed ahead of Milos Kerkez to provide the finish. It was the fifth goal in three matches for the Dutchman. It was another goal that Liverpool have conceded this season via a cross at the far post. It was another matter that he accepted the counter-attack.
Ibrahima Konate’s mistakes were too frequent and he managed to miss the ball to free PSV to score the third. It came from a combination of substitutes, Ricardo Pepi hitting the post and Driouch rolling in the rebound. There was a time when the use of slot replacements seemed inspiring. Now it was Bosz, with a triple change, who got immediate reward. One of those reinforcements, Driouch, completed a brace in injury time from Serginio Dest’s cutback.
Liverpool’s only goal was scored by Dominik Szoboszlai, coming after former PSV winger Cody Gakpo’s shot missed. For Slot, reinstating the Hungarian in midfield was a rare decision that paid off. Still nothing else worked. Hugo Ekitike was brought back into the team and showed the form that Alexander Isak was clearly lacking against Forest, but he left with a back spasm. Isak’s arrival had little impact, as Federico Chiesa again proved to be a lively option.
Yet Drich proved the real super-sub, hoisting his man-of-the-match award in front of the PSV crowd as if it were a big trophy, and there was massive cheering.
Meanwhile, a Liverpool supporter has given his verdict on his slide. “I’m a fan and I’ve watched this club my whole life,” said Curtis Jones. “In a very long time, I haven’t experienced a Liverpool team going through something like this with results like this. Right now, we are in trouble and that needs to change.”
And that, in turn, raises the question of whether managerial changes are needed.