Should we be worried about Liverpool this season?
The Athletic FC Podcast
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🗓️ 30 August 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Liverpool have picked up six points from their first two games, but have conceded four goals... So, should Arne Slot be concerned with how his new signings are adapting to his system as they look to defend their Premier League title?
Jon Mackenzie and JJ Bull joined Ayo Akinwolere to delve deeper.
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| 1:01.0 | As two wins out of two for Liverpool so far in the Premier League, |
| 1:03.6 | but they can't stop conceding. |
| 1:05.6 | Why is that? |
| 1:06.5 | And should I want to be concerned as they look to defend their title? |
| 1:10.5 | Let's get into this gentleman. |
| 1:11.7 | We've got JJ Ball and John McKenzie. |
| 1:15.7 | I mean, JJ, it's Slot's first season and there was always that conversation about Juergen Kopp playing with chaos and then Slot is the guy that maybe added a bit more control to that chaos. |
| 1:25.7 | But from what you're looking at so far from Liverpool's first two games, is it fair to say that some chaos is seeping into honour slots were? It seems like it might be, but we know that he wants to have control. He said early in his career at Liverpool, maybe the only slight difference there is, is that after we win the ball, I like to go forward just as Juergen liked it. But I sometimes like it when players try to keep the ball, not play the difficult ball, which is where the kind of chaos comes. But as Yergen, or the former regime, as he calls them, maybe like the chaotic scenes in and around 16 a lot as well. And we can see in data that Liverpool became more patient in attack, and that corresponded with a higher chance prevention. So that could be |
| 2:02.7 | that they are controlling things a bit more if Klop's going like end to end and direct and that's |
| 2:07.2 | creating a chaotic moment. That's maybe what you don't want if you're not prepared to defend against |
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