Arne Slot’s 50-Match marker turns sour.. Unwanted records, Klopp comparisons and rising pressure

Liverpool’s 3-0 humiliation exposes crisis that numbers alone can’t hide

Arne Slot’s 50-Match marker turns sour.. Unwanted records, Klopp comparisons and rising pressure

Liverpool manager Arne Slot marked his 50th Premier League match in charge with statistic he never wanted attached to his name.

A humbling 3 - 0 home defeat to Nottingham Forest that deepened one of the worst title defence slumps in the club’s history.

What should have been celebration of the Dutchman’s impressive early numbers instead exposed the scale of Liverpool’s regression.. a downturn so sharp that conversations around his future have already begun inside English football circles.

On paper, Slot’s first 50 league match are objectively better than Jurgen Klopp’s:

Jurgen Klopp

• Wins: 26

• Draws: 14

• Losses: 10

• Goals Scored: 103

• Goals Conceded: 63

• Clean Sheets: 14

• Points: 92

Arne Slot

• Wins: 31

• Draws: 9

• Losses: 10

• Goals Scored: 104

• Goals Conceded: 61

• Clean Sheets: 16

• Points: 102

These numbers underscore why Slot’s appointment last season was hailed as masterstroke.

Slot arrived from Feyenoord and promptly delivered the Premier League title in his debut campaign becoming only the fifth manager ever to do so.

Liverpool now sit 11th in the Premier League stuck on 18 point from 12 match having lost six of their last seven league game.

The collapse threatens to obliterate the goodwill built last season and the comparison with Klopp has shifted from celebratory to uncomfortable.

Forest defeat exposes deeper crisis

The 3-0 defeat at Anfield was alarming not only for the scoreline but for the manner of surrender.

Opta confirmed brutal statistic:

Liverpool have lost back to back league games by 3+ goal for the first time since April 1965 under Bill Shankly.

Florian Wirtz still appears lost in transition and Alexander Isak signed for British record £125M has yet to justify his immense price tag reportedly facing hostile pressure off the pitch as well.

Is Slot now under pressure? The sack race begins

It would have been unthinkable in August that Liverpool would even enter managerial rumour mill.

• Jurgen Klopp

• Oliver Glasner (Crystal Palace)

• Steven Gerrard

• Cesc Fabregas