Defeat to Manchester United on Sunday extended Liverpool’s losing run to four matches, their worst in over a decade.
Here, the PA news agency looks at their recent form and how it compares to previous years.
Season so far
Liverpool made a flying start to their defence of last season’s Premier League title, winning their first five games.
Bournemouth, Newcastle, Arsenal, Burnley and local rivals Everton were all dispatched, with a Champions League win over Atletico Madrid and a Carabao Cup victory against Southampton stretching the run to seven games in all competitions.
Coming on the heels of a summer spending spree that saw over £400million spent on the likes of Alexander Isak, Florian Wirtz, Hugo Ekitike and Jeremie Frimpong, it appeared a repeat of last season’s dominant form was inevitable.
There were warning signs, though. All bar the Everton win came via goals in the 83rd minute or later, while Liverpool let a two-goal lead slip on three separate occasions before beating Bournemouth 4-2 and both Newcastle and Atletico 3-2.
And the tables were soon turned, with Crystal Palace surviving Federico Chiesa’s 87th-minute equaliser to grab a 2-1 win through Eddie Nketiah’s stoppage-time goal.
Galatasaray won 1-0 in the Champions League before Liverpool conceded a stoppage-time winner for the second Premier League game in succession, Estevao Willian earning Chelsea the three points.
Harry Maguire’s 84th-minute header for United made it four defeats in a row, and three in the league to late goals.
Back to 2014
Neither Slot nor his long-serving predecessor Jurgen Klopp had previously experienced a four-match losing run with Liverpool.
The last time the club suffered such a fate was in November 2014, when Brendan Rodgers’ side lost 1-0 to Newcastle in the Premier League and Real Madrid in the Champions League, 2-1 to Chelsea and 3-1 to Palace.
They went on to draw their next game 2-2 with Bulgarian side Ludogorets before getting back to winning ways thanks to full-back Glen Johnson’s late header against Stoke.
Klopp did once lose four successive league games, against Brighton, Manchester City, Leicester and Everton in February 2021, but a Champions League win over RB Leipzig interrupted that sequence.
Shot-shy Salah
Mohamed Salah’s form is another cause for concern, with the Egyptian blasting wide from a good second-half chance against United.
Salah won the Premier League Golden Boot by six clear goals last season with 29 and topped the assists chart by the same margin, finishing with a total of 34 goals and 23 assists in 52 appearances across all competitions.
This time around he has three goals and three assists in 11 games. He has not scored since September 17’s win over Atletico, with his last assist coming against Everton three days later.
Isak was second to Salah in last season’s top-flight scoring chart with Newcastle, while Wirtz reached double figures for goals and assists in the Bundesliga with Bayer Leverkusen.
But the pair have combined for one goal and two assists in 18 appearances in all competitions this term, trailing midfield anchor Ryan Gravenberch’s two goals and two assists in nine games.
