Football News: Slot Has Failed Tactically With Liverpool In The Premier League

I'm starting to wonder whether Arne Slot and the Liverpool transfer team had actually anticipated the shift in the Premier League back to aggression, physicality and placing a huge emphasis upon set pieces and winning aerial duels in the box. It feels like our game plan was made in a vacuum without consideration of whether it will actually work in the shifting context of the league we are playing in.

I appreciate that the crowd of folks on here are going to go on about how we didn't buy a 6 again, and I understand the clamour, but if we were anywhere near good enough to impose our own way of playing right now when we are in possession, things wouldn't be quite as awful as they are now. The fact is that we aren't good enough on either side of the ball, the lack of cohesion and chemistry between the players means we are a split second slow in doing everything on the ball, and coupled with the problems dealing with 50/50s across the pitch and balls in the box it's a catastrophic combination.

Somehow it feels like Slot has got things rather wrong in terms of his estimation of how the league was evolving tactically and how we could counteract that. From being ahead of the curve last year tactically, he has taken a big step backwards, and we look like we aren't prepared to compete. People saying that Slot is copying PSG are pretty far from the mark. Not only are we not using the width of the pitch the way PSG do.

PSG were first and foremost a tenacious and hungry team that won all the second balls and duels on the pitch and pressed from the front, with forwards interchanging at will throughout the game. We have none of those features and none of that fluidity at the moment despite clearly having the personnel to be able to execute something similar.

My worry is that if we are to go back to playing something like we did last year, at least in terms of the organisation and measured intensity of our press from the front, whether the players are even physically capable of doing that in terms of fitness and physical preparedness. We still look off the pace and like the players aren't ready to play a premier league game.

I have no idea how things can change, we have on paper a brilliant manager and a brilliant squad, which is why all of us are so shocked right now, bizarrely somehow it feels like we were training to play a different league than the one we are competing in right now.

It's this worrying insight that makes changing the coaching staff a disturbing possibility, I'm sure none of us could have anticipated any of this when the season kicked off, but here we are, back in the slough of despair and paranoia that we have grown so accustomed to as lifelong fans of this club.

Written by PatrikBurgher October 26 2025 11:19:02