Liverpool are spiralling. What was initially a blip has morphed into a full blown crisis.

Arne Slot's side have now lost as many Premier League games this season as they did in the entirety of their title-winning campaign (four). So, what has caused such a dramatic drop-off?

Long-ball catastrophe

Slot has already admitted Liverpool cannot cope with a long-ball strategy, so you can guess what tactic Keith Andrews employed during Saturday's 3-2 success . Brentford peppered their visitors with 64 direct passes. Virgil van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate spent more time running towards their own goal than doing much else.

Perhaps it was unwise for Slot to spell out Liverpool's frailty so publicly. "I've looked at how many long balls we already had to defend - 178 in seven games and then United

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