‘Embarrassing quirk’ – Sky reporter shares damning Liverpool statistic that Slot ‘cannot ignore’

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Arne Slot has been warned that he ‘cannot ignore’ 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).DOWNLOAD THE OFFICIAL EMPIRE OF THE KOP APP FOR ALL THE LATEST & BREAKING UPDATES – STRAIGHT TO YOUR PHONE! ON APPLE & GOOGLE PLAYEarly 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 ‘bad five-a-side team‘, and a damning stat has emerged which should embarrass Slot and his players.Sky reporter highlights ’embarrassing’ Liverpool statisticSky 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: ‘Liverpool’s away-day malaise is becoming less of a blip and more of a pattern that Arne Slot cannot ignore.

There’s a passivity to their first-half approach on the road that feels at odds with the club’s identity that was so exciting under Jurgen Klopp. ‘A 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.‘Another blank before the break against Manchester United only sharpened the concern. That’s now just four goals in their last 19 first halves.

Add us as a preferred source on Google to your favourites list for news you can trustThat is downright embarrassing for LiverpoolScoring 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.Liverpool first-half goals in away matches since 26 October 2025 Date Opponent Goalscorer Time of goal 21 January Marseille Dominik Szoboszlai 45+1 24 January Bournemouth Virgil van Dijk 45 21 March Brighton Milos Kerkez 30 19 April Everton Mo Salah 29 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 Emery’s side could have an absolute field day.The statistic highlighted by Jones is something that, if Slot is still Liverpool’s head coach in 2026/27, he simply must rectify.