Konate with another corner header. As easy as you like. I'd really like for us to keep our foots down and put them 6 feet under. This team needs confidence.

Of course I miss all the fun. But maybe I should ban myself from watching going forward if this is the trade off

When we are in our own half, I think the 4-4-2 we've been showing has been much better than what we have shown recently. It gives us way more width in order to shut down wide players, while Szbo and Jones are athletic enough to still handle the middle of the park.

4-1 Wirtz to Gakpo, sprung by Szbo. I'll say this; Wirtz ability to ping passes that just skim across the grass is something beautiful to watch.

mmmm....chicken soup

Szbo from like 30 yard out across the ground. 5-1. Frankfurt are an atrocity defensively, but I have to give credit to Slot for picking the right 11 guys and then lining them up in a much better fashion, at least defensively. The sisters of the blind could probably score today.

EF have been really poor, but it hasn't been like that the entire game. They did a pretty good job of bunkering in during the early part of the game. When they scored, it looked like a repeat of Galatasaray/ManU game. Hugo's goal changed everything. He better not be on the bench to start the game on Saturday. He has talisman-like abilities.

Agreed. Ekitike should be in the 1st XI until further notice. He just makes things happen. Him and Gakpo are the main drivers of offense from the front line at the moment

Glad to see Wirtz get his first couple goal contributions. Hopefully that improves his confidence and we see the real player now.

Isak looks lost. Did not catch when he was substituted so hopefully it was not an injury. But if he is healthy and the Frankfurt goal is open for business, why not keep him in so he can open his account? The longer this drought goes, the heavier it will weigh...

Slot just said he was pulled with a groin injury. So potentially lost him and Frimpong for a bit.

CuJo completed 122 passes today. Most in Liverpool UCL history. Only Scouser in the team. In my opinion, he starts until Macca proves he is worth the spot.

I really thought the 4-4-2 in defense today was a marked improvement. It allowed us to be much wider in defense and control the wide areas better. Szbo and Curtis were huge with their running ability in midfield. In attack they went too some sort of 3-2-5 shape with Gakpo and Frimpong/Bradley providing the width, and Isak/Chiesa and Ekitike stuck on their CBs.

I'm not sure who actually got to watch yesterday, but if you did or saw the highlights, do we think Slot sticks with the same gameplan for Saturday as he did yesterday? Does he simply insert Salah up top with Ekitike and keep most of it the same?

I don't think he sticks with the same formation because the personnel are not available. I'm assuming we go back to a front 3 of Gakpo-Ekitike-Mo.

One of the best changes yesterday was seeing Wirtz provide effective defensive cover in our third. It seemed to me that Frankfurt's goal was primarily caused by Cujo and Szobo being confused about defensive assignments. They literally ran into one another Benny Hill style right before the decisive pass. IMO, we need Wirtz and Gakpo (or whomever they play on that side) providing more defensive cover no matter the formation. VVD and Konate are not super men, and as good as Gravenbirch has been, he's not solely a midfield destroyer like prime Fabinho.

Yesterday showed a glimmer of hope of what this team can be and achieve. (It is just one game and the opponent has to be taken into consideration. But it was also a UCL game on the road and a win is a win). If I'm the manager trying to pull my team out of the slump we have found ourselves in and after yesterday's stellar performance, I try to keep as much of that on the pitch for Saturday. Arne Slot needs to find out if this is the formula that works with this iteration of Liverpool Football Club. Last season, he was so good at making small, little tactical tweaks both before and during games to give us the best possible chance of success and I have just not seen it this season. Yesterday was the first real tactical change I have seen him make so here's to hoping Slot can get us back on track. I think the calls for a managerial change are dumb and premature. Slot has earned some grace and deserves the chance to try to right this ship.

For Saturday's visit to Brentford, GK position picks itself. As does RB with Bradley and the two CBs in Konate and VvD. Konate finally looked like an elite CB for the first time this season. Robbo earned his place yesterday. Ekitike's goal changed the momentum and result of the game and Kerkez does not make that pass. He knows when and where to attack and when to sit back. He is a master at picking the right moments. Kerkez just isn't there yet. In midfield, I would pick the same three. Wirtz showed a bit of his magic yesterday and Jones & Szobo were everywhere and the engines of last night's performance. Gakpo keeps his place, as does Ekitike. The Frenchman is just better than Isak at the moment. And if Isak is out, I'd give Chiesa a deserved run in and keep Salah on the bench. Chiesa has a motor on him that can help click this offense into gear. Let Salah get angry on the bench and maybe that reignites something in him after you bring him on as a sub.

Gakpo -- Ekitike -- Chiesa
Wirtz -- Jones -- Szoboszlai
Robbo -- VvD -- Ibou -- Bradley
Mamardashvili

We know better than most that titles and trophies are not won in October. But we need to get back on track if we have any hope of catching Arsenal. The Gunners look very good at the moment and their comprehensive result against Atletico will only give them more confidence. They've always been the chaser and never the hunted so this may be new territory for them. We need to be in position for if and when they slip up.

Side Note: This is our 5th away match in our last 6. Just a brutal run of games.

I hear ya! I too hope he tries to do more or less the same thing as he did Saturday. Obviously we won't have Isak and Frimpong which stinks, but again the 4-4-2 gave us a really great shape in defense that limited the opposition when they had the ball in our own half.

I personally would stick Salah up there with Ekitike as a No. 9 and see what it looks like for 60-70 minutes. At this stage in Salah's career, he's not an out and out winger anymore. He doesn't quite have the pace and work rate that he used to to play out wide, so why not just stick him up top as a No. 9? He's still one of the best passers of the ball we have in the open field, so you can use him as No. 9 beside Ekitike. This would also give him minimal defensive duties outside of just running around up top and putting pressure on ball carries, which he can still do.

I know he's frustrating right now but he didn't just get bad overnight. He's still a good player, we and he are just going to have to adjust how he is used. I think playing him as a No. 9 next to a bigger faster No. 9 could really help (hello Darwin Nunez).

I would go:

Ekitike -- Salah

Gakpo -- Jones -- Szoboszlai/Gravvy (rest/health dependent here) -- Wirtz

Robbo -- VVD -- Ibou -- Bradley

Mamardashvili

Obviously Wirtz inverts to play behind Ekitike and Salah basically across the pitch when we have the ball and Bradley provides the width.

Slot said in the Friday presser that Frimpong will be out for the foreseeable future, but Isak and Gravenberch are doing fine and COULD be in the squad for this weekend. I would doubt both go, but they should be back after this weekend.

Very weird feeling having a game a 2 pm CST. Thank goodness the Ags don't play until 6:30. Let's have a day!

Yeah, hate the 3:00 (I'm in NC) weekend starts. Love have the morning games to bridge the gap before cfb starts.

Salah and Kerkez starting. Isak and Grav out and of course Frimpong. Otherwise same lineup as last.

Will be curious to see how they lineup and approach the game. I'll be disappointed if they go straight back to the 4-2-3-1 they've been doing. Just don't think we're built to play like that anymore.

That's terrorizing football from Brentford

Unreal

I hate the long throw like that so much. It's not the game. We did awful on the first ball but it's so awful to watch.

Teams are basically man marking us and we have no answer.

Slot has absolutely no idea right now. He has no clue how to adjust to what teams want to do against us.

Just more of the same. No threat of attack, constant giving the ball away. Almost all players in poor form.

We really miss Diaz and Trent creating chances on their own.

We're so over matched in midfield. Teams are just basically man marking our two central midfielders and slot refuses to go to a diamond giving us an additional person there.

Slot out please

Relegation battle here we come

Yeah, this team and Slot are cooked.

I just hope people realize that we don't all of the sudden have bad players. Some are in poor form sure, but Slot has this team set up so unbelievably poorly week in and week out right now. We've been unbelievably overrun midfield since week one and have done nothing to change that. We pass back to our keeper more than anyone in the effing league because we have no options in midfield.

Same script a different day. We are just so hard to watch.

Also, why this team is even entertaining a new deal for Konate is mind blowing. He is astoundingly checked out and bad.

Until Slot benches Mo, we are boned. He is worse than a passenger right now. No effort on D or the press and just gives the ball away at all moments. Dude is so cooked he is mush.

Team has so many more issues than just one player. Chiesa ain't saving the day for us right now.

var gives that a penalty but not on Gakpo??