Virgil van Dijk admits Liverpool are in a mess and hits out at teammates

23 novembre 2025 à 13:00

Captain visibly angry after defeat to Nottingham Forest
Accuses champions’ squad of letting down Arne Slot

Virgil van Dijk has delivered a scathing assessment of Liverpool’s woeful title defence, the club captain admitting the champions are in a mess and letting down Arne Slot while questioning whether every player is shouldering responsibility for the team’s slump.

Van Dijk could not contain his anger following Saturday’s 3-0 home defeat by Nottingham Forest that left Liverpool in the bottom half of the table with a negative goal difference. Chairman Tom Werner was at Anfield to witness Liverpool’s sixth defeat in seven Premier League games, their eighth loss in 11 matches in all competitions, and a performance that unravelled against a Forest side that started the day in the relegation zone.

Arne Slot offers no excuses and vows to plot route out of Liverpool malaise

The Guardian

Par :Andy Hunter at Anfield

22 novembre 2025 à 20:08

Nottingham Forest leave Anfield as 3-0 winners
Slot: ‘I should look at myself first and my team’

Arne Slot said he needed to “look at myself” after Liverpool suffered a sixth defeat in seven Premier League games at home to Nottingham Forest and insisted he would find a way out of the champions’ slump.

Forest, in the relegation zone before kick-off, produced the biggest win at Anfield in their history as Liverpool slipped to an eighth loss in 11 matches in all competitions. The British record signing, Alexander Isak, was again anonymous and Liverpool argued Murillo’s opener should have been ruled out for similar reasons to Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed effort against Manchester City before the international break. But Slot admitted the buck stopped with him and made no excuses.

Liverpool in disarray as Nottingham Forest storm Anfield again with 3-0 win

The Guardian

Par :Andy Hunter at Anfield

22 novembre 2025 à 18:12

Last season it was a one-off, a blip in an otherwise commanding Premier League home campaign, but Nottingham Forest’s latest victory at Liverpool was symptomatic of myriad problems engulfing the faltering champions. Arne Slot cannot pin this one on set piece failings alone.

Sean Dyche’s team – and his game-plan – were exemplary as Forest recorded the biggest win at Anfield in their club’s history. Goals from Murillo, outstanding at both ends of the pitch, Nicolò Savona and the superb Morgan Gibbs-White deservedly lifted Forest out of the relegation zone on the foundation of a first clean sheet in 20 league games.

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