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REDS DOWNED AT THE BRIDGE!
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It's another defeat for the champions as Liverpool slumped to a 2-1 defeat away at Chelsea. Jesse gives his immediate post-match reaction as Arne Slot faces his first big test.
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Global Sports Podcast Network - Creating the world’s first network of 30-minute daily podcasts for the world’s biggest sporting export, the English Premier League.
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Introduction and Theme
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Hello and welcome to the Daily Liverpool podcast brought to you by the Global Sports Podcast Network. As one of England's most important cultural icons once said, I think back in the 1990s, a mockery of a sham, of a sham, of a mockery.
Match Recap: Liverpool vs. Chelsea
00:00:38
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Chelsea 2, Liverpool 1. We've lost another game, Reds. We go into this international break off the back of three straight victories, two in the Premier League, one in the Champions League.
00:00:52
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We've gone 2-1 down at Chelsea. And to be honest, again, you've got to hold your hands up and say, we probably deserved it.
00:01:05
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me We didn't do enough to win this game. We didn't do enough get a point out this game, even though At one point, it looked like we we had salvaged draw.
00:01:19
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If there wasn't an issue before, if this wasn't a...
Performance Analysis: Early Season Concerns
00:01:24
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mini crisis before, by our standards, you've got to be concerned now.
00:01:30
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And I think Liverpool fans will be concerned. I think optics are really important now in modern football. And whether we like it or not, the optics are not great. The optics are that this is a team that for some reason has just lost its way and lots lost its way...
00:01:52
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really from the start of this season, even though we were winning games, we were getting last minute winners, we were getting ourselves out of jail. And there were many in the media, you know, former Liverpool players as well, Jamie Carragher, said that we are going to get caught out at one stage if we keep on performing like this.
00:02:17
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it's not It's not so much that we were constantly winning games in the last minute. That in in and of itself is not the issue. If you're playing well and you know you're just creating a lot of chances and you're just not putting them away and then you get a last minute winner, you know that's one thing.
00:02:37
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But if you're not performing to your own standards, if you're not playing particularly well, and then you're relying on moments to to get you out of jail, then that's that's not
Player Performance Issues
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sustainable. That's not something that's going to carry on indefinitely.
00:02:54
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And we've seen that now in the last three games. And much of the criticism that I've had of Arnie Slott's style of play is is now coming to bear, I think, because we're we're just too slow, we're too ponderous in possession.
00:03:14
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There doesn't seem to be enough energy out of possession and
00:03:21
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Mohamed Salah is just not firing. He's just not firing. and he's he's He's got into a few positions today where last season or the season before that, it's in the back of the net.
00:03:37
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And he's had a couple of situations, a couple of opportunities where he just hasn't made the right decision. it's so's It's not just that...
00:03:48
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He's missing opportunities. All top strikers, they'll miss opportunities. But he's he's not making the right decisions either. And again, it's still early days. It's still only seven games in into this season.
00:04:04
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And we are now a point behind Arsenal. But I think what what these these last few games have done...
00:04:14
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in much in the same way that it's dented our confidence naturally. It's brought us down a peg or two. Conversely, this has given Arsenal a huge, huge psychological lift going into this international break.
Team Dynamics and Pressure on Arnie Slott
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Going into this international break now, Liverpool are the team that go in off the back of three straight defeats and point behind Arsenal.
00:04:43
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Arsenal go into this international break in the ascendancy. They're top of the league. But probably just as importantly, they've been given an injection of belief that not only do they have a chance and not only do they think that they're probably good enough to go and win this league, they're probably looking at Liverpool now and they're probably looking at City now and thinking...
00:05:12
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There isn't a real challenge. Yes, Liverpool are going to come back and they're probably going to challenge. But we can do this now. We can do this. Liverpool have got serious flaws.
00:05:24
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And if these last three games have shown us anything, it's that it's going to take some time for this team to iron out these flaws.
Impact of New Players and Injuries
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And Arnie Slott is going to have to really earn his money now. He did a fantastic job last season. But that's over and done with now.
00:05:47
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Last season is done. This is now a new season. And he's got to show that he can he can pull this team out of this rut. Because it is a rut.
00:06:04
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And the only thing is now is, is this down to. Is it just because we've had a new influx of players? And this has caused a bit of instability. It's going to take time for the players to gel.
00:06:21
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Is it that players are off form? Florian Wurz hasn't really hit the ground running. It's going to take him time to get up and running. Mohamed Salah hasn't really hit the heights this season.
00:06:35
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is it is it a case of there's just too many players that haven't really started this well this season so well? Alexander Isaac is our main number nine, and he's still finding his form and he's still finding his fitness.
00:06:52
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Players like Kerkhez is getting subbed pretty much most games now for Andy Robertson.
00:07:02
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So i think there there are a lot of question marks and a lot of issues that the manager now has got to really work to solve.
00:07:16
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And he's got now a couple of weeks with this international break, which maybe it doesn't do him any good in the sense that most of the players going to be going away on international duty.
00:07:30
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But he's got a he's got a real rethink on his hands. He's got to work out what it is that's going on with this team. And one of the things that I have consistently said, even when we were flying last season, is that one my one big concern about the Arnie slot methodology is the tempo of our play. It's just too slow.
00:07:53
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I've said it many, many times, and I'm going to say it again, because that really is the fundamental issue here. is that our build up play is too slow and it just allows the opposition to get settled and then you have two banks of five to break down and someone like Mohammed Salah, that's not his game. It never has been his game to to break down a team that's, you know, lying in such a low block and doubled
Potential and Concerns: Future Outlook
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up.
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that That's just not his game. And it's it's not the game for for most attackers. And so Slott really has... Got to show his worth now. And for me, the fundamental thing is that he has got to get the team playing at faster tempo.
00:08:42
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There were moments in that second half where the game got stretched and we were passing the ball a lot quicker. This was after we'd equalised and it looked...
00:08:54
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for all intents and purposes, maybe after the first five, 10 minutes after we'd scored, that we were the ones most likely to win this game. But then slowly they they went back into this, playing the ball very slowly out of the back, giving the ball to Virgil van Dijk. He stands on the ball, literally stands on the ball.
00:09:16
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And I just don't think that that's a style of play that, that is going to be successful for for us as a club, for this set of players and for and in this Premier League, because it's so helter skelter.
00:09:30
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You've got to be more proactive. You've got to be, you've got to show more energy. And that's the, that's the big thing that I take away from this, this defeat.
00:09:44
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I thought some of the some of the players that came in, Marmo Dashvili, I thought came in. I thought that he was I thought he was good. I thought he commanded the box well. I don't think he could have done much with the goals that we conceded. I mean, the Caicedo goal.
00:10:01
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I mean, he just had a free pass through the the whole of the central area of our of our team. He was not challenged at all. And he just, and to be fair to me, absolutely hit an absolute cracker.
00:10:16
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And you can have two goalkeepers and they're they're not going to save it. But why give him that opportunity? Why give him that much space? Yeah. But so I thought overall, Marmadashvili, I thought was good. And I think that one of the things that we're going to benefit from him when he is in goal is the quick way in which he distributes the ball and the the use of the throw.
00:10:41
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Whereas Alisson, you know, invariably kind of plays it short to Van Dijk or to Kanate, Marmadashvili got the ball and his first look up was to to see how far he can throw that ball to an attacking player, to Gakpo or to Salah.
00:10:59
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And that set up quite a few counterattacks for us. Canarte went off injured, which is a concern for us, bearing in mind that Leone is out for the whole season.
00:11:12
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We are now down to Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez as our two-fifth. centre backs obviously we don't know the extent of canate's injury uh but but he hasn't got a great injury record as well so that's a big concern uh james pierce a well-known liverpool fc journalist has reported that andy robertson you know was was hobbling off didn't look very good So there's a few injury concerns that are mounting, but the one centre back, I think, is a real worry, given that we are in this kind of form. So when a team's not playing particularly well, when they're under pressure, when they're conceding goals and they're conceding regularly, the last thing you want.
00:11:59
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is to have a centre-back injury crisis.
Rebuilding Morale and Confidence
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And that's, I think, where we're at at the moment. If Canate is injured for any length of time, he's missing any kind of game time, then I think that would be a crisis for us because that's Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez. And Joe Gomez doesn't have a particularly good injury record. So...
00:12:22
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These are worrying times, I think, for Liverpool. At the same time, I've got a you know, this is immediately post-match. Everything looks really bleak immediately post-match.
00:12:36
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But I think the other thing that Arnie Slott has got to do apart from resetting the mentality, resetting the kind of mood and the morale in the team, is to turn around to these guys and say, look, you've had a pretty poor three games.
00:12:56
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OK, you've been absolutely rubbish. And being rubbish, you're second in the Premier League, a point behind the leaders. This is by no means over. This is by no means the season is done in the Premier League.
00:13:11
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it's We're seven games in. We've got over 30 games to go in the Premier League. Lots and lots of football to be played. Lots and lots of points up for grabs.
00:13:24
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And so he's now got to get into that team and say, What are you made of? What are you made of? You are the champions of England and other teams are going to have to take that title off of you.
00:13:37
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So come back from this international break and let's start again. Let's go again. But... some Yeah, not a good performance, not a good weekend if you're a red.
00:13:52
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And we've got to stew on this now for the next couple of weeks until we return. And then we've got some tasty fixtures. got Manchester United who are waiting for us as well. So we've got to turn this around and turn this around quickly.
00:14:08
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But look, we're going to give a a much more in-depth post-match
Upcoming Analysis Episodes
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analysis in the next couple of days with Louis on the Monday review program.
00:14:20
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And Adarsh and Michael will be back for a Tactics tactics Tuesday episode two to go over this defeat in a bit more detail. But until then, thank you for listening and we'll see you again soon.