Liverpool humiliated again as PSV deliver hammering

Arne Slot’s excellence against Dutch clubs propelled him to Liverpool.

- RICHARD JOLLY

Now it is a sign of how everything seems to be going wrong for Slot that even that prowess appears to have deserted him, that a humiliation at the hands of a club from his homeland prompted him to admit it is normal to wonder if he can remain at Anfield.

As Peter Bosz was the Dutch master in the dugout, adding the scalp of the champions of England to their Italian counterparts, scarcely believably, Liverpool suffered a ninth defeat in 12 games, and they did not just lose. They were hammered in historic fashion by PSV Eindhoven.

Twelfth in the Premier League, 13th in the Champions League, hit for four by PSV, this is crisis time for Slot and Liverpool. “It is a shock for everyone, for the players, for me, this is very unexpected,” he said.

The realist in him accepted that the scale of Liverpool’s slide is such that talk of the sack has emerged. But not, he said, from Liverpool’s powerbrokers.

“I am feeling safe, I am okay. I have got a lot of support from above,” he explained. “It would be nice to turn it around and get a victory but if you are working as a coach and not doing well, then it is normal that questions are asked. I am ok with my position. They don't call every single minute of the day to say they trust me. In the normal conversations we have, I feel the trust.”