"Arne Slot believes Liverpool's elimination from last season's Champions League helped the club clinch the Premier League title. The Liverpool boss has come under intense scrutiny this season with the club's title defence proving anything but formidable. Liverpool are sixth in the Premier League table, 14 points off league leaders Arsenal and have been left licking their wounds in recent days after defeat by AFC Bournemouth on the south coast."
"Amine Adli's stoppage time winner handed the Reds their seventh league defeat of the season, with the team currently winless in their last five Premier League matches. Speaking ahead of Liverpool's final league phase fixture in this season's Champions League, Slot said, as quoted by the Daily Mail: "Again this is not going to be a popular opinion what I tell you now, maybe the reason we won the league last season is because we played Paris Saint-Germain. We had a week to prepare for league games [after going out of the Champions League]." Liverpool were knocked out at the Round of 16 last season after finishing top of the league phase standings with seven wins and one defeat from those initial eight games. PSG would go on to win the competition, defeating Aston Villa, Arsenal and Inter Milan en route to their maiden Champions League triumph."
Elimination from the Champions League provided Liverpool a week to prepare for league matches, contributing to clinching the Premier League title last season. The team is struggling this season, sitting sixth and 14 points behind Arsenal, with seven league defeats and a five-match winless run following a stoppage-time loss to AFC Bournemouth. Last season Liverpool topped their Champions League group with seven wins and one defeat but were knocked out in the Round of 16 by Paris Saint-Germain, who went on to win the competition. The Reds had been 15 points clear before the PSG second leg and had won 21 of 29 league games to that point. This season Liverpool are on course to finish in the Champions League league phase's top eight.
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