SLOT TO THINK ABOUT

Problems pile up for under-pressure Arne

- BY PAUL GORST

After four successive Premier League defeats, the idea that passage to the last eight of the Carabao Cup in midweek would have given Arne Slot extra margin for error against Aston Villa is fanciful.

The Liverpool head coach is in the grip of his worst sequence since he arrived last year and the questions and the critiques are piling up by the game.

His injury list is growing, with Slot potentially without Curtis Jones, Alexander Isak and Ryan Gravenberch against Unai Emery’s side tomorrow.

It will also come too soon for Alisson and Jeremie Frimpong, who are recovering from hamstring issues.