Cliff Notes – Liverpool’s Premier League crisis: The stats that shame Arne Slot after Nottingham Forest loss
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Liverpool’s 3-0 defeat to Nottingham Forest equalled their biggest home loss in Premier League history, matching previous defeats to West Ham, Chelsea, and Manchester City.
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The team now sits 11th in the league, with six wins and six defeats this season, marking a significant decline with six losses in their last seven matches.
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Nottingham Forest, who began the match in 19th place, have climbed to 16th after securing their third league win, while Liverpool are now eight points behind leaders Arsenal.
Liverpool’s Premier League crisis: The stats that shame Arne Slot after Nottingham Forest loss
Liverpool fell to a shock 3-0 defeat to relegation-threatened Nottingham Forest on Saturday, deepening a Premier League crisis that — after last year’s domination — nobody would have predicted.
Murillo, Nicolò Savona and Morgan Gibbs-White scored the goals that piled the pressure on Arne Slot.
Here, ESPN looks at the stats that sum up a dreadful day for the Dutch manager and Liverpool fans.
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The 3-0 defeat equalled Liverpool’s biggest home defeat in Premier League history, having lost to the same scoreline to West Ham in 2015, and 4-1 to Chelsea (2005) and Manchester City (2021).
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Liverpool now have six wins and six defeats this season, two more losses than all of last year. Saturday’s shocker was their sixth defeat in seven games.
11
The defeat has dropped Arne Slot’s side into the bottom half of the table, now sitting 11th.
Liverpool are 11th in the Premier League after the shock home defeat to Nottingham Forest. Molly Darlington/Getty Images2
This is the second year in a row that Nottingham Forest have beaten Liverpool at Anfield. They were the only team victorious there in the league last season.
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Liverpool are eight points behind Premier League leaders Arsenal, who have a game in hand.
1965
Liverpool have lost back-to-back league games by a margin of three or more goals for the first time since April 1965.
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Nottingham Forest, who had just two PL wins before Saturday, started the game in 19th. They are now out of the relegation zone, in 16th.
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Alexander Isak is the first Liverpool player in Premier League history to lose all of his first four starts.