Liverpool dropped their first points of the season against Nottingham Forest.
The Reds welcomed Nuno Espirito Santo’s Tricky Trees to Anfield for Saturday’s Premier League matchup, but despite being the game’s overwhelming favourites, failed to extend their unbeaten run.
Suffering a 1-0 defeat after former Chelsea winger Callum Hudson-Odoi scored a 72-minute winner, Arne Slot’s men experienced their first slip-up in the race for this season’s title.
The London-born wide man, after picking the ball up from teammate Anthony Elanga, curled a beautiful strike beyond opposition goalkeeper Alisson.
Ibrahima Konate blamed for Nottingham Forest winner
The usually reliable Brazilian was rooted to his spot and failed to make any sort of effort to save Hudson-Odoi’s shot.
Commentator Gary Breen was quick to defend the Liverpool keeper though with the pundit highlighting defender Ibrahima Konate’s role in Forest’s crucial goal.
“Konate blocks the view of Allison, who doesn’t even dive,” Breen said live on Premier Sports 1 just after Hudson-Odoi’s goal.
Konate’s poor positioning won’t do his case to be considered an important centre-back any good. The Frenchman has already been subject to speculation that Slot “doesn’t fancy” him as a first-team regular.
Last month saw Football Insider claim the Liverpool boss was ‘unimpressed’ with the 25-year-old’s lacklustre training levels.
The Reds go again against AC Milan in the Champions League next Tuesday in an exciting matchup that will be a repeat of the famous 2005 final.
Nonsense.. How many times was Conor Bradley turned in out by Odoi. Be real..
Its Brad Conner’s fault who couldn’t contained Odoi. Not Konate’s fault, rubbish commentary.
It’s simple, LFC need somebody who can score goals for fun, great striker with good decision making like Haaland. Salah is un-reliable and so are other front strikers/wingers.
Who do you think will be like Halland?what I’m suggesting is we play our striker he can make it
It’s not good for us we’re not used to being beaten at home.Slot should watch out
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Why nw konate
I warned Hughes. About the lack of buying the Right winger.. Liverpool need a typical right winger. The truth is Salah’s time is gone. You can’t relay on Salah.. .
If Sadio Mane left, Firmino, Fabinho.. the ones we loved so much. Who is this Salah who can’t even dribble today????
Let Slot Bench Salah and play Cheisa.
Better play Gakpo, Nunez, Cheisa. We see
Conor Bradely didn’t have a good game yesterday!
Nonsense! We screwed up a game we should have won and Slot should have been more patient in his substitutions. We want to win every game but it’s not possible and this definitely is not the time for recriminations. Let’s pick ourselves up and go on to the next challenge.
Long before now I have been calling for Salah to go for the fact that he scores does not make him spacial, a player that sees ten chances and convert just one can never be trusted, you can’t give Halaand 3 chances without him converting two, Salah can’t scores he can’t always pass he hardly dribble he is not a treat to defenders
Shouldn’t be bad losers really. Shifting blame to Salah is failing to nail where the problem was. Fact is Forrest came with a game plan that outsmarted Slot’s plan. They generally nullified all LFC strategy and larer benefitted from a well worked counterattack. Salah still very reliable player by a mile. Not many better than Salah in Europe at the minute
I agree
I can’t point my finger to any LFP,because they aren’t good enough to challenge for premiership.No one is good enough
I think Liverpool have many attackers that all fight for goals, City have Haaland who is their finisher and never considers assisting others in goals. His only duty is just to shoot at goal but in Liverpool no player is given that opportunity. I love my LIVERPOOL
Why are you guys sparing Szobo for criticism. He has been below par so far this season. Szobo really need to up his game.
Just suck it up. We could lay ‘blame’ on most of the team but the fact is that we had a bad day at the office and were beaten by a team that implemented their game plan to perfection.
So full marks to Forest but we’ll learn from the defeat for sure.
Slot is to blame – he has the final say, you can’t play the same team 4 games in a row, he was playing for his own stats. 7 games in 22 days really.
Let’s not be bitter losers. It was not out day. Only a few weeks ago we were over the. moon with an impressive away win at Man United. Why didn’t you complain about Salah or Sloboslai? I agree that we pick ourselves up and rise for our next challenge. EPL is a marathon not a sprint. There is more than enough time to rectify our errors and challenge for the title
Slot should stop looking for scapegoats after a game. He will kill the spirit of the team. It was not Konate’s fault – probable doesn’t like Konate and setting the scene to get rid of him. The loss was Slot’s fault – his gameplay and substitutions. Really worry about a coach who blames players publicly.
I salute you