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The Straits Times
|September 17, 2024
Liverpool start tough Champions League campaign after first defeat in new era
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Arne Slot had made a serene start to the unenviable task of succeeding Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool, but a 1-0 Premier League home defeat by Nottingham Forest has brought the Dutchman's honeymoon period to an abrupt end and exposed cracks in the Reds' facade.
His team have little time to lick their wounds, with a trip to AC Milan to come on Sept 17 to open their return to the Champions League after a year away from Europe's elite club competition.
Under Klopp, Liverpool's prestige at the top of the European game was restored. The English giants reached three Champions League finals in five seasons between 2018 and 2022 and won the European Cup for the sixth time in the club's history.
That is the legacy - and pressure Slot inherits and the former Feyenoord boss has not been handed a kind draw by the new Champions League format.
Liverpool will face the two most successful sides in the competition's history in Milan, the seventime champions, and 15-time winners Real Madrid.
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