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Welcome everybody into the ESPN FC Studios for this.

The latest edition of the show alongside Ale Moreno, Steve Nicol. I'm Sebastian Salazar. Wonderful to have you with us. We do have a lot to get to in the show today. We will be talking La Liga a little bit later on as we kick off the real buildup to El Classico on Sunday. But let's start with a look at the top of the Premier League after a pretty important weekend, or at least what felt like. In Arsenal right now, first place, they've opened up a

three-point gap after their one, nothing winning away against Fulham on Saturday.

Manchester City sits second. They beat Everton over the weekend. It's not until we get down to

third where we find Liverpool, the defending champs after their tied, sorry, fourth.

It's not until we get down there.

We see Liverpool, we get a look at their recent results.

This is their first four-match losing streak across all

competitions in over a decade, also coming off their first

Premier League defeat at Anfield in over a year, two on against Manchester United yesterday. Of course, we talked a lot about this on yesterday's show. Stevie, I'll definitely get more thoughts from you on in just a second, but let's welcome into the program, Mario Malkout. Mario, I want to start with you here because it's your countryman, the manager, Arnes Slot, that's coming under a lot of criticism for what's going on right now with Liverpool.

How much do you think the manager is to blame for the club's current struggles?

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