{"id":564654,"date":"2026-04-04T19:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/564654\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T19:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:12:08","slug":"arne-slot-liverpool-manager-under-increasing-pressure-after-fa-cup-capitulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/564654\/","title":{"rendered":"Arne Slot: Liverpool manager under increasing pressure after FA Cup capitulation"},"content":{"rendered":"

After losing at Brighton<\/a> two weeks ago, Liverpool<\/a> and Slot would have hoped that the international break would have provided the reset required before one final push until the end of the season.<\/p>\n

The announcement that Mohamed Salah will leave in the summer, while significant, was not a surprise and had the potential to galvanise fans and players alike to give a club legend a memorable send off.<\/p>\n

On top of that, the return of club-record signing Alexander Isak to team training after more than three months out provided another boost.<\/p>\n

But 92 minutes in Manchester quickly did for any such optimism, with the number of potential trophies that might garnish Salah’s farewell swiftly halved.<\/p>\n

Even a consolation goal was beyond them as Salah saw his second-half penalty saved – a moment Slot admitted “probably sums us up today and probably large parts of our season”.<\/p>\n

“To get embarrassed like they did today is going to stick with them,” ex-Aston Villa<\/a> striker Dion Dublin added on BBC Radio 5 Live.<\/p>\n

Difficult as it is, though, Slot must find a way to rally his players before kick-off in Paris on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n

Another abject defeat could end Liverpool<\/a>‘s hopes of progressing even before the second leg, at which point the season would become solely about trying to scrape back into the Champions League next season.<\/p>\n

For all the mitigation that Slot can point to for the issues this season – injury problems, a severely disrupted pre-season, an unbalanced squad and, above all, the tragic death of Diogo Jota – failure to do so would leave him extremely vulnerable.<\/p>\n

“We have to react to this defeat and this disappointing season,” he said. “There is a chance for us on Wednesday. We have shown today for only 35 minutes that we can compete.<\/p>\n

“We can take positives from those 35 minutes but if we defend like the 20 minutes afterwards we will have a big problem. That is what we have to address.”<\/p>\n

Time is fast running out for Slot to find those solutions and salvage something from Liverpool<\/a>‘s season.<\/p>\n

What that means for his future remains to be seen but those joyous scenes of last spring certainly seem a long time ago now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After losing at Brighton two weeks ago, Liverpool and Slot would have hoped that the international break would…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[99],"class_list":{"0":"post-564654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}