One Liverpool-focused journalist is convinced that the Reds will fail to qualify for next season’s Champions League after the latest of numerous setbacks over the past few months.
Arne Slot’s team slumped to their 10th Premier League defeat of the campaign in going down 2-1 at Brighton on Saturday, with Stephen Warnock blasting his former club as ‘soft‘ as they tamely surrendered to the Seagulls.
It’s yet another instance of LFC failing to capitalise on dropped points for their top-five rivals, with Manchester United inching further ahead of the Merseysiders despite being held to a 2-2 draw away to Bournemouth on Friday night.
Taking to X after Liverpool were beaten at the Amex Stadium, David Lynch dismissed the Reds’ chances of qualifying for the 2026/27 Champions League, despite their current domestic position of fifth being almost certain to earn a place in the tournament for next season.
The journalist lamented: ‘There’s not much else to say about this Liverpool team other than that they will surely miss out on Champions League qualification from here and fully deserve it. Injuries have played a part, but these players regularly look less fit and less well-organised than the opposition.’
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Right now, it seems that the only way LFC will be in the Champions League next season is if they win the current edition, or if one of their rivals for a top-five finish proves to be even more inconsistent and self-destructive than Slot’s side.
With all due respect to the teams involved, to come away with one point from games against Wolves, Tottenham Hotspur and Brighton this month is pitiful, and Liverpool have a difficult set of fixtures post-Easter to finish out their Premier League campaign.
There were certain things today which conspired against the Reds – Hugo Ekitike went off injured in the opening minutes and Yankuba Minteh could potentially have been sent off later in the first half – but citing those as primary reasons for this latest defeat would be a copout.
As Lynch said, even though there have been some mitigating circumstances throughout the season, Slot’s team often come up frighteningly short in terms of the factors they can control.
Missing out on the Champions League would be a calamity for Liverpool – the penny has to drop in the next few weeks, or else their income from failing to qualify for the tournament will plummet significantly.
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The squad is big enough to cope with injuries. If the excuses are tiredness after a champions league game, then why so little rotation. You can’t have any excuse after spending 450 million in the summer.
Why did we lose today? At one point in the game we had 85 percent possession, but you have no faith in this Liverpool team to defend properly, to turn possession into goals, to control the game within the midfield. Count today the tackles lost the duels. Lost, in the midfield and that’s with three midfielders.
The full backs are too lightweight then there’s wirtz. Wirtz was supposed to the new Kevin de bruyne, able to unlock any defence to create and give assists .
Two assists in the Premier league, all season is not good enough. He’s behind bowen grealish Wilson diouf wharton ect ect .
Again today missing in action against Brighton. We are not playing real Madrid or psg.
Couldn’t beat spurs reserves 12 players missing Lost against bottom team wolves Lost against Brighton.
Empire of the kop wakey wakey when Will you wakeup about slot.
their playing like amateurs
Just do it fsg. Since it’s gonna be a rebuild, make it a full rebuild. Hughes gone to Saudi, Edwards unhappy and steps down with his team and slot sacked. Get klopp and his team back for senior role in charge of football matters as replacement for Edwards and his team and get Alonso as manager with gerrard as assistant. Stop the head coach experiment.
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