Liverpool boss Arne Slot termed the talks of defending their Premier League title premature following his side's 3-0 loss to Manchester City away from home on Sunday. It marked the Reds' five league defeat of the campaign, and send their side down to eighth place, eight points behind leaders Arsenal.

"It feels there's too many (losses)," Slot told reporters. "And the last thing I should speak about now is the title race. We should first focus on getting results -- result after result after result -- before we can even think about that. The reality is that we are eighth.

"I said last season, many times, the best way to judge the league table is, of course, after 38 (games), but the next best thing to judge it is after 19 games (the season's halfway point), because then you all faced the s

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