Brentford 3 Liverpool 2 – Is Arne Slot’s Premier League title defence already over?
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“If Liverpool thought they had put their early-season struggles behind them, they were wrong. Arne Slot’s team may have ended their run of four straight defeats with the 5-1 thrashing of Eintracht Frankfurt on Wednesday but a trip to Brentford exposed all their fragilities in stark fashion as they careered to a chaotic 3-2 defeat that leaves their Premier League title defence looking bleak. Liverpool are sixth, four points off leaders Arsenal, who could stretch that advantage to seven when they play on Sunday, and the biggest concern for Slot is that no lessons seem to have been learned from their previous three league defeats. We dissect the major talking points in west London. …”
NY Times/The Athletic