Liverpool slumped to an eighth Premier League defeat of the season on Sunday after throwing away a lead against Manchester City.
The Reds are now on a terrible run of just one win in their past seven league matches and have lost two of the last three.
What is truly alarming for Liverpool supporters is that this lack of form is far from a new phenomenon.
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Marc Guehi pictured in action during Manchester City's Premier League match against Liverpool at Anfield (Credit: Getty Images/Robbie Jay Barratt - AMA).
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In fact, look back over the past 20 Premier League matches, and Arne Slot‘s team have won only six matches, losing eight and drawing a further six in that time.
So, if you take away Liverpool’s five consecutive wins to start the season, the Reds would be sitting far, far lower in the Premier League table.
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Liverpool were lucky to win their first five games of the season having not played particularly well during any of them.
But things have become far worse since then, and having picked up only 24 points from the last 60 available, the Reds are the Premier League’s 12th-best team in that period.
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Level with Bournemouth in 13th, Liverpool have only five points more than Tottenham, who sit in the final relegation place in the form table.
It is a long way up to top-four rivals Chelsea and Man United who have gained 35 and 37 points respectively, while Arsenal top the table after taking 46 from 60, almost double Liverpool’s tally.
In any season this would be an embarrassment for the Reds, but as champions, it is worse than that, it is pathetic.
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Slot should not survive dismal title defence
Had Liverpool not won the Premier League title last season, surely Slot would have found himself out of a job by now.
There are mitigating factors which everyone is aware of for the Reds this season, but standards still have to be maintained to a degree. As this damning run of form shows, they simply have not been.
If the Liverpool owners are waiting for the summer to make a change of coach then few will quibble too hard, but there is a strong argument that Slot should not have survived through these past 20 matches.
To many supporters, the poor form actually goes back even further, all the way to the PSG Champions League tie last March. Liverpool arguably haven’t been the same ever since.
Having to watch the team look leggy, out of ideas and brittle both mentally and physically since then has been a real struggle for supporters. It is not acceptable and if Slot continues in this manner for the next 13 games, there is absolutely no argument for keeping him in charge.
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