Liverpool suffered their first Premier League defeat underneath supervisor Arne Slot towards Nottingham Forest yesterday.
The Merseyside heavyweights began the marketing campaign in sensational style with three league wins on the bounce. They delivered an impressive efficiency to beat Manchester United (3-0) earlier than the worldwide break.
It was anticipated that they might safe one other routine win over Forest on Saturday, however the gamers failed to search out the innovative within the last third, struggling a shock 1-0 defeat at Anfield which nobody anticipated.
There have been extra negatives than positives from the dreadful loss and midfielder Dominik Szoboszlai had a forgettable outing as he was responsible of shedding possession on a staggering 18 events over the course of the sport.
The Hungarian star additionally dedicated 3 fouls with a cross success charge of solely 78%. Except for 1 blocked shot, he was barely a menace on objective. The 23-year-old received simply 50% of his floor duels from the attacking midfield function.
Szoboszlai was additionally lucky to flee a purple card in stoppage time. He kicked the ball away in frustration after committing a foul. He might have simply obtained his marching orders, having already been on a yellow card.
Liverpool will journey to Milan for Tuesday’s Champions League sport versus AC Milan. Slot is sure to make some adjustments to the beginning XI in response to the Forest loss. Szoboszlai could possibly be a type of benched.
Slot has already proven that he received’t entertain any underperformers in his enjoying line-up and the Dutchman has been pro-active within the first few weeks with some early and sudden substitutions in video games.
The brand new Champions League format begins with a 36-team league section with every crew enjoying 8 video games, 4 at residence and 4 on the highway. Each a type of fixtures will likely be essential as the highest 8 straight make the spherical of 16.
The groups from ninth to twenty fourth within the desk will likely be concerned in a knockout play-off. Liverpool want to start out off brightly with a victory over the Rossoneri at San Siro in midweek.
