"We all know things are going pretty badly for Liverpool this season, but if anything, it might actually be even worse than a lot of us thought. Remarkably, new stats have emerged showing that Arne Slot's side actually have the second worst defensive record of any team in Europe's big five leagues since May. Liverpool's awful defensive record under Arne Slot Just to reiterate, as the table below shows, only relegation strugglers Wolves have conceded more goals than Liverpool in all competitions for the last six months, showing that the Reds' problems didn't just start in the early stages of this season"
"Liverpool have top class players in their back line such as Virgil van Dijk, Ibrahima Konate, and two top goalkeepers in the form of Alisson Becker and Giorgi Mamardashvili, so this really comes as a big surprise and surely shows that Slot's coaching must be a big part of the problem."
"That statistic is slightly misleading as 25% of the tally pertains to the four matches at the end of last season after Liverpool had already won the Premier League and there was an obvious (and understandable) drop-off, Togher explained."
New statistics show Liverpool rank second-worst for goals conceded across Europe's top five leagues since May, with 36 goals in 22 games. Only Wolves have conceded more in that period. The table highlights Wolves (18 games, 39 conceded), Liverpool (22 games, 36 conceded) and Eintracht Frankfurt (19 games, 35 conceded). The defensive struggles are striking given the presence of Virgil van Dijk, Ibrahima Konate, Alisson Becker and Giorgi Mamardashvili. Context matters: roughly 25% of the conceded-goals tally came from four end-of-season matches after a league title was secured, but Liverpool have still shipped 27 goals in 18 matches this term (1.5 per game).
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