Liverpool on Saturday, lost to Nottingham’s Forest 1-0 at Anfield while Erling Haaland’s double sent Manchester City three points clear at the top of the Premier League in a 2-1 win over Brentford.
Gatekeepers News reports that Manchester United had earlier eased the pressure on Erik ten Hag with a comfortable 3-0 win at
Southampton.
Forest which had not won at Anfield in the top flight for 55 years got a goal when Callum Hudson-Odoi fired in the winner 18 minutes from time.
Liverpool had won all three of their opening games under Slot without conceding, including a 3-0 win away at Manchester United two weeks ago.
They were however didn’t perform well after the international break.
Luis Diaz hit the post and Diogo Jota couldn’t put Liverpool ahead before half-time.
Later on, Hudson-Odoi latched onto Anthony Elanga’s pass, cut inside, and unleashed an accurate strike low beyond Alisson Becker.
Liverpool’s newly appointed Head coach, Slot said, “ The result frustrates the most and we cannot be happy about how the game went. It was a stop-start game and we hardly created any chances.”
“We only have to look at ourselves, we have to be better. Far too many times we lost the ball around the area, it was not good enough. We have to be better with the ball.”
Forest went into fourth with eight points from their opening four games.
Forest boss, Nuno Espirito Santossid, “The players did it so well. We were against the ropes but we stayed in the game and found our moment.”
