LONDON: Liverpool slumped to a fourth consecutive Premier League defeat as Brentford bullied the defending champions in a 3-2 win on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Goals from Dango Ouattara, Kevin Schade and Igor Thiago secured victory for the Bees, who climb to 10th in the table.<\/p>\n
Liverpool slip to sixth and could be seven points adrift of leaders Arsenal by Sunday as their title defence has collapsed in spectacular style over the past month.<\/p>\n
The Reds have lost five of their last six games in all competitions as Arne Slot appears lost for answers in how to develop a cohesive team from a Premier League record spend of nearly \u00a3450 million ($600 million) in the transfer window.<\/p>\n
“I have a clear idea of where we have to improve but that hasn’t been the case in other games. We didn’t do the basics right today,” said Slot.<\/p>\n
“You cannot compare all of them but the most concerning thing is that you lose four times in a row.<\/p>\n
“Afterwards you can judge the performance and today was the worst in my opinion from all the four.”<\/p>\n
One of Slot’s big decisions was taken out of his hands as Alexander Isak missed out with a groin injury. Mohamed Salah did return after starting on the bench as Liverpool thrashed Eintracht Frankfurt in the Champions League on Wednesday to snap a four-game losing streak.<\/p>\n
Brentford have long been exponents of the long throw-in tactic that has become popular across the Premier League this season.<\/p>\n
Liverpool struggled to deal with the flight of Michael Kayode’s throw-ins all night and one was the source of the opening goal.<\/p>\n
Kristoffer Ajer flicked on the Italian’s wicked delivery and Ouattara volleyed in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON: Liverpool slumped to a fourth consecutive Premier League defeat as Brentford bullied the defending champions in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[20908,85,46,172,2619,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-98625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-brentford","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-premier-league","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}