Slot has to bench the Liverpool flop that won the duel on 3/12

Liverpool beat Nottingham Forest on the Metropolis Floor within the Premier League on Sunday, taking their lead in all competitions to a few factors.

Alexis Mac Allister’s stoppage-time purpose sealed all three factors for the Reds, however the purpose was canceled out for handball simply minutes earlier than the purpose was due.

Reds supporters had been nonetheless left worrying about Virgil van Dijk’s potential offside when the midfielder discovered the again of the web for the second time, solely to be narrowly discovered to be onside.

The circumstances surrounding Mac Allister’s two ‘objectives’ could have been irritating for these concerned, for followers and for the membership, however some Liverpool gamers had been much more annoyed.

Forward of the subsequent Premier League recreation towards West Ham, supervisor Arne Slott could need to drop each large gamers after their efficiency towards Forest.

Why Liverpool have to make modifications to each wingers

Kodi Gakpo began on the left wing for the Reds, however his disappointing efficiency for the membership means he will probably be dropped towards the Hammers.

The Dutchman has one purpose and nil assists in his final 11 appearances, and one purpose and nil assists in his final 12 Premier League video games.

However he isn’t the one winger to be ignored towards West Ham, with Mohamed Salah additionally having to be ignored of the facet for the second time this season.

Gakpo and Salah misplaced the ball 28 occasions between them and solely created one probability, however Liverpool struggled to create possibilities for a lot of the match, failing to register a single shot on course.

The profitable shot got here after each gamers had already left the sport, with Rio Ngmoha coming off the bench and creating one “massive probability” with two profitable dribbles in simply 13 minutes on the pitch.

Salah and Gakpo must be ignored for his or her ineffective performances on Sunday, however Liverpool had gamers who had been even worse than each of them.

Liverpool’s failure was worse than Salah and Gakpo

Regardless of the win towards Forest, Slott has some massive choices to make forward of the sport towards West Ham as some gamers didn’t step up and carry out.

Liverpool suffered an undesirable upset when Florian Wirtz got here on as an alternative throughout the warm-up and needed to be faraway from the match day squad on the final minute, with Curtis Jones changing him within the XI.

Sadly, with Jones struggling on the sector, Wirtz’s alternative within the crew wasn’t essentially the most dominant efficiency on the sector for Slott.

In his 83 minutes on the sector, the England worldwide created extra possibilities towards Forest (3) than towards Liverpool (0) and made three errors that led to opponents’ pictures. He let his crew down a number of occasions with free passes in his personal half, three of which resulted in pictures.

There have been too many moments the place Jones held onto the ball for too lengthy, delayed his passes and dribbles, and ended up giving the ball again to the house crew.

Along with struggling in possession, the central midfielder misplaced most of his duels at Liverpool, profitable solely three of 12 video games and never making a single sort out in 83 minutes.

So Jones let his crew down together with his work on and off the ball, on and off the ball. The explanation was that he was not efficient with the ball, made a number of errors and was too weak with out the ball.

He was even worse than Gakpo and Salah, as neither of Liverpool’s beginning wingers made errors that led to Forest’s pictures, nor did they miss “massive possibilities” like Jones.

If Wertz misses Sunday’s recreation with an damage, Slott might transfer Joe Gomez all the way down to proper again and transfer Dominik Szoboszlai again to the middle wing of the park to maintain Jones out of the lineup.