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'Set-piece weakness costing Liverpool'
Gulf News
|December 25, 2025
REIGNING CHAMPIONS BEHIND 4TH-PLACED CHELSEA
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Liverpool manager Arne Slot believes his side are damaging their own hopes of a top-four finish in the Premier League because of a poor record at set-pieces.
The reigning champions head into the busy Christmas and New Year period behind fourth-placed Chelsea on goal difference.
Liverpool have scored just three set-piece goals while conceding 11 in the league so far this season, with a frustrated Slot saying: "I know the importance of it, it gets more and more, and that's why we are so annoyed by our current record.
This story is from the December 25, 2025 edition of Gulf News.
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