"Liverpool Football Club (LFC) strolled to victory in last season's English Premier League (EPL). It was a win that was as assured as it was unexpected, having changed coaches the summer prior, a change that births a testing transitional period. They started this season flying-picking up five wins out of five-before sinking to an almost unthinkable deterioration with eight losses from their last 11 games."
"Expectedly, analysts and pundits have suggested a galaxy of explanations as to why this has ensued. Just as expectedly, hindsight bias endures. When the BBC asked 33 of its pundits about who they expected would win the EPL that season, all but six stated LFC. Even the "Opta Supercomputer" predicted an LFC win. Of the plethora of explanations put forward to explain LFC's decline, one carries great psychological relevance: grief."
Liverpool Football Club won the previous English Premier League title after a coaching change and began the following season with five straight wins. The team then suffered a dramatic decline, losing eight of their last eleven matches. Preseason expectations heavily favored Liverpool, with most pundits and the Opta Supercomputer predicting a title. On July 3, 2025, Diogo Jota and his brother André died in a car crash; Jota was 28 and left a wife and three young children. Analyses of Liverpool's decline focused on transfers and tactical factors while largely overlooking grief's potential impact. Grief can impair cognitive performance and produce team-specific manifestations that may explain parts of the collapse.
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