Liverpool fans boo Arne Slot decision as Rio Ngumoha substitution sparks backlash

While Liverpool’s decision-makers won’t be swayed into making a sack call on the basis of some boos at Anfield, it only goes to show just how disconnected the home crowd feels with the head coach.

And that’s a problem you can’t ignore when you consider Liverpool to be a “manager’s club”.

Arne Slot’s decision-making has been poor

We can bring up mitigating factors, we can bring up the lack of pace on the wings, we can bring up some misfortune in certain games.

But when you’ve only got one naturally pacy winger available, who has arguably been Liverpool’s best player against Chelsea on Saturday afternoon, why are you taking him off around the hour mark?

We’re sure Slot will argue that he’s looking to avoid harming Ngumoha’s development by over-relying on the 17-year-old.

But we’ve been pretty careful with the Englishman all season. There’s definitely room to hand the wide man extra minutes, particularly when we don’t seem to have much else of an out ball otherwise.

It’s an isolated example we’re picking out, but there’s been far too many racked up over the course of the campaign to suggest Arne Slot should be totally exempt from the sack this summer.

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