Kop resurgence this week and everything will Slot back into place

AFTER four successive league defeats, the idea that a safe passage to the last eight of the Carabao Cup would have given Arne Slot extra margin for error against Aston Villa is fanciful.

- BY PAUL GORST

The Liverpool boss is firmly in the grip of his worst sequence since he pitched up on Merseyside in the summer of 2024. And the questions and the critics are piling up by the game.

The injury list is growing, with Slot potentially without Curtis Jones, Alexander Isak (right) and Ryan Gravenberch for the game against Unai Emery's tomorrow night.

The fixture will also come too soon for Alisson Becker and Jeremie Frimpong, who are both recovering from hamstring issues.

The big-money buys of the summer - £125million Isak and £116m Florian Wirtz are yet to light the blue touch paper on their Anfield careers and only Hugo Ekitike, a £79m addition from Eintracht Frankfurt, has hit the ground running during a huge summer turnover of the playing staff.