"Crystal Palace is never an easy place to go, especially facing a side who hadn't lost a game in five months. A very poor first 85 minutes look to had been saved by Chiesa's late equaliser but Liverpool got a taste of their own injury time medicine as Eddie Nketiah gave Palace all three points with the final kick of the game."
"Liverpool then travelled to a hostile Istanbul as they faced Galatasaray in the Champions League. Albeit decided by an extraordinarily harsh penalty, Liverpool suffered defeat for the second match in a row and with a very below par performance. Chelsea is never a place you want to visit when you're on a bad run but a patched up Blues side looked like a side Liverpool could beat."
"So what's gone wrong? Firstly it's clear Slot is struggling with his strongest side, with the abundance of fresh talent through the door in the summer. As well as having two major strikers, Slot has added a very expensive asset to a title winning midfield and has two right-backs fighting for one spot. New players will almost always need time to adjust but many forget it's also hard for the long serving players to adapt to the new players."
Liverpool started the season with six straight wins in the league and Europe but recent form has dipped with consecutive defeats and late concessions. Crystal Palace ended Liverpool's unbeaten run with Eddie Nketiah's injury-time winner after Chiesa had equalised. A controversial penalty saw defeat in Istanbul against Galatasaray and a last-minute goal cost Liverpool at Chelsea. Manager Slot faces challenges integrating many high-profile summer signings into a settled squad. New signings change player roles, with Florian Wirtz occupying a classic number ten role and two new forwards offering more direct number-nine profiles. Squad role uncertainty affects players like Dominik Szoboszlai.
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