Following a humbling 3-0 defeat to Manchester City, the Reds’ boss admits his team is in a fight for form, not the title, after a disastrous run of five losses in six games.
The dream of back-to-back Premier League titles is fading fast for Liverpool, and manager Arne Slot is refusing to sugarcoat the reality. After a brutal 3-0 defeat to rivals Manchester City on Sunday, a visibly frustrated Slot made it clear that any talk of a title race is off the table for his struggling squad.
The loss at the Etihad Stadium, which saw Liverpool outplayed in every department, marks a staggering fifth defeat in their last six league matches. The dismal run has sent the reigning champions plummeting to eighth in the table, a position that forces a stark reassessment of their season’s ambitions.
“The last thing I should speak about now is the title race,” Slot stated in a brutally honest post-match assessment. “We should first focus on getting results—result after result after result—before we can even think about that. The reality is that we are eighth now.”
He emphasized that the current squad is a far cry from the one that lifted the trophy last season, acknowledging the need for immediate and significant improvement.
The match itself was a tale of two halves, with City establishing a dominant 2-0 lead by the break—a scoreline Slot admitted was a “fair reflection” of their superiority.
“They were, in every aspect of football, better than us in the first half,” the Dutch manager conceded. “Of course, everyone is disappointed.”
The statistics paint a grim picture. This season’s five league losses have already surpassed the total number of defeats from their entire title-winning campaign. Through 11 games, Liverpool have collected just 18 points, a full 10 points fewer than they had at this stage last season when they were sitting comfortably at the top of the league.
While there is still a long season ahead, the urgency for a turnaround is palpable. For Slot and his team, the focus has sharply shifted from a title defense to a fundamental battle for form and confidence, with the manager demanding his players find their way back to winning ways before any grander ambitions can be revived.
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