Arne Slot Sent ‘crisis’ Warning By Concerned Liverpool Legend

Former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher called it “crisis time” for nan reigning Premier League champions aft identifying clear flaws successful nan team’s tactical setup which person near Arne Slot openly befuddled.

Liverpool suffered a 4th consecutive convention nonaccomplishment connected Saturday night, becoming conscionable nan 4th defending champion to strengthen specified a run. Yet, it was nan mode of nan defeat against Brentford which near truthful galore concerned. They had seen it each before.

Slot’s broadside were erstwhile again undone by agelong balls and group pieces. This is Brentford’s strength—manager Keith Andrews was exclusively tasked pinch overseeing nan club’s dead-ball strategy earlier taking complete nan basking spot from Thomas Frank successful nan summer—but an ever-expanding excavation of Liverpool opponents person deployed this approach.

Manchester United and Chelsea some racked up season-high tallies of agelong passes successful their caller victories against nan Reds, leaving Slot to bemoan specified a strategy from teams “with each their talented players.”

The Dutch leader worryingly conceded: “It is decidedly that teams person a definite playing style against us; it is simply a very bully strategy to play. We person not recovered an reply yet.”

Liverpool person mislaid 5 of their erstwhile six games. / Alex Pantling/Getty Images

Carragher blamed nan lightweight floor plan of nan squad for their failings successful these robust aspects of nan game. “Liverpool person to look astatine nan physicality and tallness wrong their squad because, correct now, I don’t deliberation they person enough,” fretted nan retired centre back—who takes awesome pridefulness successful amassing much than 500 Premier League appearances contempt opinionated astatine little than 6’ tall—on Sky Sports.

“Losing 4 games successful a statement for Brentford would beryllium a disaster,” Carragher continued. “To spot nan champions do it pinch nan expenditure successful nan summertime intends we’re successful situation clip for Liverpool correct now.

“There will beryllium a batch of superior questions asked successful nan dressing room betwixt nan players and nan coaching unit and nan group supra nan manager. When they’ve looked astatine what they’ve spent, they’ll beryllium looking for a batch more.”

Of nan Liverpool stars being accused of frailty, respective arrived successful nan summer. Florian Wirtz hasn’t rather caught up to nan Premier League’s humor and thunder while Jeremie Frimpong is seldom fresh capable to beryllium whether he tin meet those demands. Even though Milos Kerkez thrived successful a buccaneering Bournemouth broadside past term, nan alteration of scenery has seemed to rob nan fullback of immoderate beingness authority.

Carragher’s Sky Sports workfellow Gary Neville wasn’t reaching for nan situation klaxon conscionable yet. “It’s not conscionable a blip immoderate more, it’s becoming a concern,” he mused.

Rather than focusing connected belittling Liverpool, Neville compared their cavalier attack to nan helter-skelter Manchester United teams of years gone by. “Arne Slot’s Liverpool punctual maine a spot of my aged Man Utd team,” he said.

“We went done huffy periods wherever we ever looked tin of scoring, but we were each complete nan place.

“One point you tin guarantee pinch [Mohamed] Salah, [Hugo] Ekitiké, Wirtz, [Alexander] Isak, [Cody] Gakpo and others, they will people goals. But nan others are responsible for being coagulated and not unfastened each nan time, and exposed. It sounds for illustration starting from scratch, but sometimes you person to do that. When everything is crazy and chaotic, which it is for Liverpool correct now, you conscionable person to find a beardown foundation.”

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