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Liverpool continues to struggle in away matches, losing 3-2 to Manchester United. The team has yet to win against any top-half Premier League team this season.
āEmbarrassing quirkā ā Sky reporter shares damning Liverpool statistic that Slot ācannot ignoreā
Arne Slot has been warned that he ācannot ignoreā a scarely believable statistic relating to Liverpool in away matches this season.
The Reds succumbed to more misery on the road on Sunday as they lost 3-2 to Manchester United at Old Trafford, preserving their unenviable record of failing to win away to any team currently in the top half of the Premier League table (as of Monday evening).
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Early second-half goals from Dominik Szoboszlai and Cody Gakpo had restored parity by the 55-minute mark, but the performance before half-time was savaged by Roy Keane, who likened it to that of a ābad five-a-side teamā, and a damning stat has emerged which should embarrass Slot and his players.
Liverpool has failed to win away against any team currently in the top half of the Premier League table this season.
Liverpool lost 3-2 to Manchester United at Old Trafford in their latest away match.
Arne Slot has been warned that he 'cannot ignore' Liverpool's poor away record, which is seen as a significant concern.
Liverpool's inability to win away matches against top-half teams highlights ongoing struggles and raises questions about their performance this season.

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Sky Sports reporter Lewis Jones drew attention to the mind-blowing fact that, in their last 19 away matches across all competitions, Liverpool have scored just four goals prior to half-time.
He wrote:Ā āLiverpoolās away-day malaise is becoming less of a blip and more of a pattern that Arne Slot cannot ignore. Thereās a passivity to their first-half approach on the road that feels at odds with the clubās identity that was so exciting under Jurgen Klopp.
āA team built on intensity, front-foot football and early statement-making now are drifting through opening periods as if waiting for the game to come to them.
āAnother blank before the break against Manchester United only sharpened the concern. Thatās now just four goals in their last 19 first halves. A staggering drop-off for a side packed with attacking quality and expectation. Itās not just misfiring finishing, itās a collective lack of urgency. The tempo is slow, the pressing disjointed and too often Liverpool are reactive rather than proactive.
āFor a club that should be chasing major honours, itās an embarrassing quirk to what has been a wretched season.ā
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Scoring just four first-half goals in 19 away matches is embarrassing in its own right, and it looks even worse when considering that two of those came in the 45th minute or in stoppage time.
To put it into an even more humiliating context, Nottingham Forest scored as many first-half goals in a 20-minute spell at Sunderland recently as Liverpool have managed in 19 matches across the last six months.
The Reds frequently made a slow start to games last season, too, but often showed their powers of recovery to come from behind and claim victory. That has all too rarely been the case this term, with the 5-1 thumping of Eintracht Frankfurt among the few exceptions.
Mercifully, LFC only have one more away match in this campaign (against Aston Villa the weekend after next), and if they start that game as feebly as they did at Old Trafford yesterday, Unai Emeryās side could have an absolute field day.
The statistic highlighted by Jones is something that, if Slot is still Liverpoolās head coach in 2026/27, he simply must rectify.