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It isn’t going to plan for Liverpool this season.
The Reds find themselves in a difficult position at this stage of the season.
Lots to improve on and lots to consider moving forward.
Whilst pressure mounts on Arne Slot, across all levels of the club things aren’t going particularly smoothly.
For the women’s team, they are currently bottom of the WSL, picking up just two points from eight games so far.
Today, one youth team within the men’s academy suffered a defeat that will not be met warmly in any part of the red side of Liverpool.
Liverpool U18’s lost 7-0 to Manchester United U18’s this afternoon.
A defeat that has striking similarities to Liverpool’s historic triumph in 2023 where they thrashed Manchester United by that same scoreline at Anfield.
Cody Gakpo, Darwin Nunez and Mohamed Salah all picked up a brace that evening, with Roberto Firmino capping the evening off.
The Red Devils were much the better side, and the Reds had no answer as JJ Gabriel scored a hat-trick for the visitors.
However, a couple positives from the day were two young Reds making their debuts for Liverpool.
Luca Eden, who is only 14 years old, came on for his first minutes with the U18’s.
The other player was Max Hawkins, a U16’s player who made the step up this afternoon.
Liverpool U18’s now sit in 10th place in the table out of 14 teams with 11 games played, whilst Manchester United sit in third.
No doubt this will be a heavy learning curve for those young players, but ups and downs are a part of football, and they will bounce back from this.
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Full-time. Liverpool U18 0-7 United.
Quite clearly not the level required, we shouldn’t dance around that but the players will know and that’s the learning curve. No getting away.
But to provide somewhat of a context, 3 of Liverpool’s backline, one of which, Max Hawkins, at…
— Lewis Bower (@LewisBower2021) November 29, 2025
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