"with impressive wins over Aston Villa in the Premier League and Real Madrid in the Champions League followed by demoralizing losses to Manchester City and Nottingham Forest in the Prem as well as PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League. There haven't even been any face-saving draws in that stretch of play, and they can't even plausibly blame bad luck or bad officiating for the last three defeats. Those came by a combined score of 10-1, and the international break did nothing to arrest the slide."
"Thus it was that Dutch winger Cody Gakpo told soccer journalist Fabrizio Romano: "I don't know where [our resilience] has gone, but we should try to get back to that. We know that we are in a difficult position. We have to stick together." He said this before his 90 minutes of action against his former team yielded three ineffectual shots for an expected goals rating of 0.31."
Liverpool have lost nine of their last 12 matches across competitions, alternating isolated big wins with demoralizing defeats and no salvaging draws, conceding a combined 10-1 in the last three matches. Dutch winger Cody Gakpo noted a disappearance of resilience and urged unity, though his full match produced minimal attacking output (xG 0.31). The offensive crisis traces to heavy forward turnover—Luis Díaz and Darwin Núñez departed and Diogo Jota died—despite signings Alexander Isak and Hugo Ekitiké. In the recent match Liverpool were outplayed by PSV, with Dominik Szoboszlai the only midfield performer while Mac Allister and Gravenberch were overrun.
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