Liverpool have no ‘fighting spirit’ and their season is on the brink of collapse
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It is less than 14 months since Liverpool came to the Etihad Stadium, Arne Slot outwitted one of his coaching heroes with his use of twin false nines, won 2-0 and took a giant stride towards the Premier League title. Pep Guardiola is not seen off quite that easily, however. Slot’s subsequent visits to Manchester City have been crushing.
Such slim chances as Liverpool had of retaining their Premier League crown ended with a 3-0 defeat in November . Their FA Cup run came to an abrupt halt with a 4-0 demolition here. “An unbelievable disappointment,” said Slot.
Not for City. They walked past the Carabao Cup on their way on to the pitch and took a stride towards winning the FA Cup. For Liverpool, unless a bedraggled, beaten group can somehow recover to claim the Champions League , starting with the first leg of their quarter-final against holders Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday, it will be a season without silverware.
Virgil van Dijk and Arne Slot are left in double Dutch despair at the final whistle (Liverpool FC/Getty) For Slot, already aware that some of the Liverpool support want him gone, the soundtrack was of City fans chorusing “sacked in the morning”. And if their timescale is inaccurate, it was scarcely a result to enhance Slot’s prospects of remaining in charge for next season. His heaviest defeat in charge of Liverpool, and joint-heaviest of his managerial career, was a chastening affair.
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