Arne Slot and Luis Diaz throughout Liverpool’s draw with Nottingham Forest (Photograph by Michael Regan/Getty Pictures)
Liverpool star Luis Diaz summed up a key downside for the Reds final evening as they dropped factors away to Nottingham Forest.
Arne Slot’s facet stay high of the Premier League desk and can take coronary heart from the truth that none of Arsenal, Manchester Metropolis or Chelsea look in significantly nice kind for the time being.
Nonetheless, there have been some simple issues as Liverpool needed to accept a draw for a second league recreation in a row, whereas they have been additionally not too long ago overwhelmed 1-0 by Tottenham within the Carabao Cup semi-final first leg.
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Issues want to enhance, and Diaz was slammed for being “so poor” at one essential second in yesterday’s recreation, with James Pearce noticing some usually unhealthy decision-making from the Liverpool gamers all through.
Luis Diaz of Liverpool (Photograph by Carl Recine/Getty Pictures)
See under for a few of Pearce’s posts as he clearly discovered it irritating to look at LFC in yesterday’s 1-1 draw on the Metropolis Floor…
So poor from Diaz. Needed to play Gakpo in
— James Pearce (@JamesPearceLFC) January 14, 2025
Determination making letting Liverpool down right here. Some wild lengthy vary efforts when higher choices obtainable.
— James Pearce (@JamesPearceLFC) January 14, 2025
HT: Forest 1 #LFC 0: Liverpool have dominated possession however they haven’t completed sufficient with it. Determination making has been poor. Forest scored with their first assault by way of Wooden and have pissed off the PL leaders since.
— James Pearce (@JamesPearceLFC) January 14, 2025
Are Liverpool letting their rivals again into the title race?
Liverpool have been up in opposition to an excellent workforce final evening, with Forest proving shock challengers for a Champions League place, whereas they maybe must also not be dominated out as rising into shock Leicester Metropolis-esque title contenders.
Nonetheless, even when Liverpool got here again to attract after going a aim down early on, many followers could have anticipated higher from the workforce as this barely tough patch continues.
Up to now, nobody else has been ok to punish them, however Arsenal will certainly really feel they’re not fairly out of the title race but as they’ll go simply 4 factors behind Slot’s males in the event that they win in opposition to Tottenham tonight, albeit having performed a recreation extra.
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Liverpool have actually been excellent for a lot of Slot’s first season to date, however they must be cautious to maintain this run going, or there are certainly ok groups behind them to make them pay.
Arsenal went on an immense run about this time final 12 months, taking Man Metropolis all the way in which to the ultimate day of the season, whereas Chelsea have additionally improved rather a lot underneath Enzo Maresca this time period, even when they’ve additionally hit a little bit of a latest blip.