'I saw Liverpool's most important player become clear and it's causing Arne Slot a huge problem'

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Liverpool fell to yet another late defeat, this time against Wolves, with the race for the Champions League spots still wide open as a result of the Reds' inconsistencyLiverpool head coach Arne Slot.(Image: Andrew Kearns - CameraSport via Getty Images)Another game, another last-minute goal. For Liverpool, it was the same old story.Arne Slot’s team was way too passive against the Premier League's worst team, and it’s attack was far too meek.

And as the Reds were left with no choice but to admit at the final whistle, they only had themselves to blame despite the unfortunate deflection.READ MORE: Liverpool player ratings, winners and losers vs Wolves as Mohamed Salah scores but 3 really poorREAD MORE: Steven Gerrard demands Arne Slot makes one change to Liverpool starting XIThough it was the second-latest on Opta's records that a team has scored from its first shot of a Premier League match, Liverpool invited such an outcome with the way it played."How do I sum us up? "Recently we are picking up points from scoring from set pieces but what did not change in the past five, six or seven games is we struggle and find it very hard to score from open play chances we do create."The most glaring issue in the last couple of games has been how much Liverpool has missed the creative hub that is Florian Wirtz.Away from home, Liverpool has scored just three first-half goals in the Premier League this season.

Liverpool was more controlled; everything went through him, and he found pockets of space within which he could work his magic.Against Brighton, albeit a team that offered more space to work in because of the way it set up, Liverpool was good and progressed in the FA Cup.Since then, though, Liverpool has been without its key man and it has been overly reliant on set-pieces. Learn moreFrom $100LFC.comSee the dealLiverpool's home and away strips for the 2025/26 season are the first in their new partnership with adidas.Fans can order jerseys in the US at Fanatics.com or via the LFC Online Store in both the US and across the world.Salah and Gakpo, out wide, offered little in the way of the ability to beat a man and though there will be more calls for Rio Ngumoha to get more starts, a 17-year-old cannot be the answer yet.Ngumoha showed glimpses here, but also why caution needs to be taken.The bottom line, though, is that Wirtz is the most important man in the Liverpool team at the moment: the creator, and the one who everyone else's instinct is to look for straight away.The positive?