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The player’s inclusion shows Liverpool’s inconsistency in-front of goal this season.
As fans, we have become used to watching free-flowing football that involves a lot of goals.
This season, it has been very different at times, as Arne Slot continues to develop a new-look Liverpool team that involves a lot of new faces and playing styles.
The Reds have turned a corner recently, and currently sit on an 11 game unbeaten run after falling into the bottom half of the Premier League table at one point this season.
Hugo Ekitike has been a standout for the Reds, as the summer signing has provided the goals when they have been needed on several occasions.
A couple players have been off the pace this season though, and have looked very different to the player they were last season.
Alexis Mac Allister sat out the last few games of last season after consistent fitness issues led to him being side-lined.
With the Premier League title wrapped up, Arne Slot viewed that as the perfect time to give the Argentine the rest he needed ahead of pe-season.
However, the midfielder continued to be out of action, and experienced a disrupted start to the new campaign.
That led to him struggling to find form in the new season and has led to him not being the efficient contributor to goals that he has been since arriving on Merseyside.
According to The Athletic, Alexis Mac Allister ranks fifth overall among players in Europe’s big five leagues for the most shots taken without scoring a goal, but he leads the way in the Premier League with 26 shots and 0 goals in the 2025/26 campaign.
The midfielder has featured in 20 league matches so far, but has failed to find the back of the net so far.
The Athletic notes that 12 out of his 26 shots have been blocked, with five saved by the goalkeeper, the rest have been well off the mark.
It is important to say that the Argentinian international has played a more reserved role this season in order to integrate the new attackers that Arne Slot signed in the summer.
He will be looking to get on the score sheet soon, and facing 19th placed Burnley on Saturday afternoon could be the perfect opportuntiy to do that.
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