Pundit urges Liverpool’s head coach to adopt an ultra-defensive approach
Gary Neville says Liverpool must start to make drastic changes if they are to halt their alarming run of results.
Liverpool’s 3-0 defeat at home to Nottingham Forest on Saturday was their sixth loss in seven league games. It has left the defending champions 11th in the table and reeling.
“The manager has to change the style or the system,” said Neville. “He has to help them. That, to me, means being more solid in midfield and at the back.”
Liverpool started with Dominik Szoboszlai, Ibrahima Konate, Van Dijk and Milos Kerkez in their back four against Forest. Neville said too many of them were struggling defensively and that Slot should consider copying his rivals.
Neville said: “Kerkez is struggling, Konate is struggling. Put four centre-backs into your back four, like Arsenal and Manchester City have done. Keep a narrow, tight back four and tell everyone that you’re adapting and changing to keep clean sheets and stop teams from having chances at your goal.
“In midfield, put a narrow four in there. That could be Szoboszlai, Alexis Mac Allister, Ryan Gravenberch and Florian Wirtz or Cody Gakpo tucked in.
“Do something different. You’re not, at this moment, a great side. You are easily beatable, so you have to do something differently.”
