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Forest opened the scoring by taking advantage of Liverpool's poor form from set-pieces this season. Excluding penalties, Slot's side have conceded nine league goals from set-pieces this season - as many as they did in the whole of last season. For the first goal, Liverpool had six players in the six-yard box including goalkeeper Alisson, while the visitors smartly only placed two in there.

who took over the Liverpool job as a 34-year-old in 1985 after Joe Fagan resigned following the Heysel Stadium disaster. Well, it was a surprise, Dalglish recalls to FourFourTwo. The way that I saw it, I was just going to give my best, and if my best transpired not to be good enough, then I'd hold my hands up and say, This isn't for me it's not fair on the club, so get somebody else in.'

Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson is fit to return for the champions as the Premier League returns this weekend. The Brazilian, 33. has not featured since injuring his hamstring in September but is an option to start against Nottingham Forest at Anfield on Saturday. Manager Arne Slot said: "Alisson trained last week and this week so he will be able to play tomorrow if things work out well today. "If he's ready to play, he will start."

He's probably the one and only untouchable player in that squad right now. They need to keep him and Jarrod will be looking to build his team around him. He's on a long-term contract until 2030, so it's not like West Ham are under any real pressure to sell Jarrod Bowen as well. But, no surprise that clubs will be looking at him. Tottenham, Liverpool because even in that struggling side, he still scores goals and he's a proven Premier League player.

Wirtz is a problem. Let's just call it as it is. It's an issue. He's 100m+, and to be fair, I said a few weeks ago [Milos] Kerkez looked like a little boy out there. Today, I thought Wirtz looked like a little boy. That can't be the case.

Liverpool lost Trent Alexander-Arnold, perhaps the greatest passer of the ball to ever walk the Earth, to Real Madrid. The pressing-and-pirouetting prowess of Luis Díaz departed for Bayern Munich. The guaranteed chaos and chance creation of Darwin Núñez left for Saudi Arabia. Oh, and a number of reliable backups found new homes, too: Harvey Elliott to Aston Villa, Kostas Tsimikas to AS Roma, Jarell Quansah to Bayer Leverkusen and Caoimhín Kelleher to Brentford.

As per Football Insider, Pete O'Rourke has revealed that Upamecano is in talks with Bayern over signing a new deal, but despite this, his future in Bavaria remains very uncertain. I'm sure (Liverpool) will be hoping that maybe they could sign a player of the calibre of Upamecano on a potential free transfer in the summer. Look, he's under contract at the Allianz Arena until the summer and discussions over a new dealer are ongoing between Upamecano's representatives and Bayern Munich.

It was a familiar feeling during the game with all the same symptoms of poor performances being shown once again. A lack of drive in possession and clumsy defending all led to the three Brentford goals. As we start to enter the busy winter period with all competitions still in play for Liverpool something needs to change very quickly for the team.