Liverpool are wasting time under Arne Slot and pattern of late drama proves it

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Liverpool have lost in injury time to Crystal Palace and Chelsea and Bournemouth and Manchester City and Wolves. Slot’s team have scored just five goals this season in the opening 30 minutes of Premier League matches (REUTERS)They have conceded to set-pieces and deflections, to wonder goals and scrappy strikes, because of individual errors and individual inspiration.

Virgil van Dijk criticised the nature of Liverpool’s performance at Molineux (Action Images via Reuters)Analysis of Liverpool’s games can start at the end because too little happens at the beginning. Liverpool have only scored five goals in the first 30 minutes of Premier League games – by way of comparison, West Ham have 12 – but, from the 76th minute onwards, there have been 31 goals in their matches: 17 for, 14 against, the most and the second highest respectively.

But if some of Klopp’s teams played heavy-metal football from the first whistle, this Slot side don’t even approach soft rock.Steven Gerrard, seen here with Arne Slot before the game, said Liverpool wasted the first half (REUTERS)But Slot’s Liverpool scored 25 league goals in the opening 30 minutes of matches last season. Liverpool have won some, but they have lost too many.