Liverpool player ratings vs Galatasaray: Arne Slot looking lost without late goals! Increasingly ragged Reds suffer dismal Champions League defeat and lose Alisson and Hugo Ekitike to injury on a hellish night in Istanbul
After seven wins in a row in all competitions, Liverpool have now lost two on the spin, with Arne Slot's side slumping to a dismal 1-0 defeat at Galatasaray - just three days after being upset by Crystal Palace.If anything, the Reds were even worse in Istanbul than they had been in London, because they weren't just weak again from a defensive perspective, they were also insipid offensively, failing to score for the first time this season - and against a weak Galatasaray team that had been routed 5-1 by Eintracht Frankfurt in their Champions League opener.As a result, a still-disjointed Liverpool never really looked like responding to the penalty converted by Victor Osimhen 16 minutes in, after Baris Alper Yilmaz had made the most of being flicked in the face by the hand of Dominik Szoboszlai.Slot brought Mohamed Salah and Alexander Isak off the bench in the second half but, on this occasion, there was to be no late reprieve for the increasingly ragged Reds, with VAR overturning a penalty awarded for a 'foul' on Ibrahima Konate in the closing stages.Below, GOAL rates all of the Liverpool players on show on a hellish night for Slot at RAMS Park during which he also lost both Alisson Becker and Hugo Ekitike to injury...
After seven wins in a row in all competitions, Liverpool have now lost two on the spin, with Arne Slot's side slumping to a dismal 1-0 defeat at Galatasaray - just three days after being upset by Crystal Palace.If anything, the Reds were even worse in Istanbul than they had been in London, because they weren't just weak again from a defensive perspective, they were also insipid offensively, failing to score for the first time this season - and against a weak Galatasaray team that had been routed 5-1 by Eintracht Frankfurt in their Champions League opener.As a result, a still-disjointed Liverpool never really looked like responding to the penalty converted by Victor Osimhen 16 minutes in, after Baris Alper Yilmaz had made the most of being flicked in the face by the hand of Dominik Szoboszlai.Slot brought Mohamed Salah and Alexander Isak off the bench in the second half but, on this occasion, there was to be no late reprieve for the increasingly ragged Reds, with VAR overturning a penalty awarded for a 'foul' on Ibrahima Konate in the closing stages.Below, GOAL rates all of the Liverpool players on show on a hellish night for Slot at RAMS Park during which he also lost both Alisson Becker and Hugo Ekitike to injury...
