2025/26 Season

[peterbread]

Next four league games

Newcastle at home
City at Home
Sunderland away
Forest away

[Exiled_red]

Our run of form is WDDDDL a run of fixtures that were all winnable.

If that was a 6 game run of wins we’d be 3 points from the top. I just can’t see how we continue this with Slot in charge. We need to see something different watching the same ****e and bizarre subs week after week after week is too much.

The fact that we only have 21 points from.our last 18 PL games is the problem for me, the 5 wins from the first 5 games are doing some serious heavy lifting in our league position and probably in keeping slot in a job. If the season had started 25th Sept we'd be 12th, can't help but feel if that were the case pressure on Slot would be much higher

[Buzzo]

Our run of form is WDDDDL a run of fixtures that were all winnable.

If that was a 6 game run of wins we’d be 3 points from the top. I just can’t see how we continue this with Slot in charge. We need to see something different watching the same ****e and bizarre subs week after week after week is too much.

[kingfunk]

Abysmal.

[Charly]

6th at the moment. Plus 3 gd after 23 games. 4 points above Everton

[Norbs]

After today's games we'll either be outside the top 4 or closer to the relegation places than top of the league. How embarrassing

[Exiled_red]

And so comes the end of one of the most depressing unbeaten runs in the history of sport.

[Buzzo]

And so comes the end of one of the most depressing unbeaten runs in the history of sport.

[Norbs]

Has it been mentioned anywhere what an advantage Arsenal and others had by playing on Tuesday instead of New Year's Day? All 4 NYD games were stalemate, 3 of which were goalless. Flat

[vlahka]

Slot made great substitutions last season - this season it's like he's learning football again.

WTF happened?

Did he really make great substitutions? Or did the players coming on still have Klopps training influence and just did what they always did. Now everythings been slowed down to a horrid degree. Anyone coming on will be playing that way too.

[Exiled_red]

Just been looking at the stats from last season, we finished the PL season (38 games) having scored 86 goals and conceded 41, so far this season (19 games) we have scored 30 and conceded 26. So we have scored 13 goals fewer and have conceded 5.5 more than last season's average and if this trend continues we are on for doubling those numbers by the end of the season (26 goals fewer and conceding 11 goals more). Salah scored 29 PL goals last season, if this continues it would be the equivalent of losing him from last season.

It feels like we have concentrated all our goal scoring threat in Isak and Ekitike, which is a different approach. The plan would have been to play one at a time, OK Isak is injured so that puts more pressure on Ekitike, but the reality is we aren't creating enough chances for this reliance on him. Everyone else bar Salah is probably where you would expect them to be goalscoring wise based on last season. e.g Gakpo got 10 PL goals last year and is currently on 4 at the halfway point. Just look around and our only real goal threats are Isak (injured), Salah (form has dropped off a cliff) Ekitike and Gakpo. I really see us struggling for the rest of the season, we desperately need a forward IMO.

[BG1973]

We've got worse at everything is what happened.

Inc recruitment. We desperately need the Mane signing - the one that really started the attacking progress under Klopp.

Gakpo should never played LWF for us again.

[DerKrampus]

Slot made great substitutions last season - this season it's like he's learning football again.

WTF happened?

[vlahka]

I dont know where these 19 shots came from. All we ever did was kick the ball into the opposition player 1 meter away.

[Exiled_red]

In home games this season against Nottingham Forest, Sunderland, Wolves, and Leeds, Liverpool have generated 4 Opta-defined big chances in total. One per game. 77 shots, 6.9 xG (0.089 xG/shot) from average possession of 69.4% in those games

We clearly don't create anywhere near enough big chances (not sure what the Opta definition is exactly) but we rarely have what I would call a good chance to score and rarely work the keeper, most of our chances are hit and hope but the xG gets padded by the quantity we have.

Looked at the stats today, 19 shots only 4 on target, 8 shots from outside the box, the only good chance I can remember us having is the one Ekitike headed the wrong way. and our xG was 1.96. Leeds had 4 shots and an xG of 0.68