Crystal Palace 2-1 Liverpool: Liverpool’s Worst Performance Under Arne Slot
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That may be the worst performance under this manager so far. Not simply bad in outcome, but rotten at its core. A display that lacked urgency, identity and the basic honour of representing a club at the summit of English football. There was no structure, no soul, and no sign that the players knew what they were meant to be doing.
The first half wasn’t chaotic or frantic or wild. It was slow, hesitant, lifeless. Crystal Palace didn’t surprise anyone; they just executed with clarity and desire. Liverpool walked straight into it. The midfield was porous, the defence timid, the right side a catastrophe of miscommunication and poor decisions.
Everywhere you looked, players were hiding or breaking down. Mac Allister looked lost in his own body. Konaté resembled a man who had misplaced his brain. The right-back position was a conveyor belt of calamity. Salah drifted in and out like a man staring through the window of his own career.
This team has escaped before through brilliance, luck, or sheer force of will. But nothing of that sort was present here; not in the body language, not in the movement, not in the choices made when the match turned in their favour. The equaliser flattered them. The collapse that followed was entirely deserved.
If this group wants to retain the title, then this cannot be allowed to pass. There is losing, and there is surrender. They handed over the points with a shrug.
They need to look at themselves in the mirror and ask, very plainly, what they think they are. Because on this evidence, neither the manager nor the players can answer that with a modicum of sincerity.
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