Slot must figure out plan to get his Reds team back on track

THE defeat to Manchester United was enough for me to believe Liverpool won't be retaining their Premier League title.

- JOHN ALDRIDGE

Brentford's Dango Ouattara opens the scoring against Liverpool at the Gtech Community Stadium on Saturday

And Saturday's latest setback - the 3-2 loss at Brentford - is seeing things go from bad to worse.

Liverpool seemingly need three goals a game to get a result and the whole thing, frankly, has become a shambles.

The champions have no chance of retaining their crown with this sort of football and four defeats in a row is now cause for major concern for Arne Slot.

It doesn't look good for the manager but what you have to say is there is no lack of effort from the players, who are all clearly still playing for him.

There were one or two fifty-fifty challenges that were shirked - which you simply cannot do as a Liverpool player, by the way - but on the whole the work rate and the desire is there.

But what is undermining everything right now is they don’t know how to defend and Brentford’s approach was very predictable on Saturday.

Other teams have shown them the path to victory against in recent weeks, it’s all just been so poor.