Liverpool suffered a seventh Premier League defeat of the season over the weekend as Bournemouth scrambled the ball home in the 95th minute to leave Arne Slot shellshocked on the touchline
08:13, 27 Jan 2026
Liverpool's players appeared dejected after Bournemouth's winning goal on Saturday(Image: 2026 CameraSport)
Former Premier League striker Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink said he was not impressed with the body language he saw from Liverpool's players during Saturday's defeat by Bournemouth.
The Reds looked to have rescued a point from two goals down through goals from Virgil van Dijk and Dominik Szoboszlai, only for Amine Adli to score a 95th-minute winner for the home team.
Hasselbaink said that there was a lack of urgency from Liverpool during the game – both going forward and defensively. "I don't like their body language," Hasselbaink told Sky Sports. I don't like... when a corner came in, when they were attacking and there was a counter attack and there was no urgency.
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"The goalkeeper kept the ball, he throws it really quick, there was no urgency from 11 players. I don't like that. I think that can be way, way better."
On the goal that Liverpool conceded to lose the game, which Adli scored after a long throw-in, Hasselbaink added: "With long throw-ins, it's 99.9 per cent not the first ball that is going to score – it is the second ball, and it's a set-up, how to defend: you go and attack them, and if you lose your first header, the other one should normally pick up the second ball."
Although Hasselbaink questioned the body language of Liverpool's players, Arne Slot had a different take after the game, suggesting that his team was tired after an intense run of games.
The Reds have already played seven times this month, and there are still two more games to come before the end of January.
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"For the last five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10 games, we mainly have to play with the same players, the players we have available and then sometimes a few of them could be, in the end of the game, a bit tired," Slot said in post-match interviews with a variety of British broadcasters.
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"I think that's what you could see today in the end as well.
"Both teams were trying to score a goal, they had better opportunities than us in the last 10 minutes and then in the end there is a long throw in which led to a goal."
Next up for Liverpool is a Champions League meeting with Qarabag on Wednesday before a huge league game against Newcastle on Saturday. Both games are at Anfield.