Arne Slot Says Things Will Get Better for Liverpool at Some Point
Liverpool continue to play poorly and get bad results, as they have going back more than a year now.
Liverpool started off their Friday evening match against Aston Villa not completely terribly, with Arne Slot’s embattled Reds appearing at least game and competitive on the road against a side level with them on points heading into the penultimate match of the 2025-26 Premier League season. They even continued to compete after going down a goal. The game, though, started to slip away.
Old problems returned. The press was ineffective. Passing was sloppy.
Defensive structure was often non-existent. Liverpool didn’t look sharp. There were increasingly frequent gaps for Villa to exploit.
By the time the final whistle blew on a 4-2 Villa victory, with Liverpool scoring a stoppage time goal to make the final scoreline a little less embarrassing than the place the performance had ended up, it felt like a capitulation. Liverpool were bad. Liverpool didn’t care.