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Liverpool enters the international break with some problems to solve after a tricky week of away games resulted in three defeats. Losing to Crystal Palace, Galatasaray and then Chelsea, Arne Slot's men didn't pick up any points.
In the Champions League, there is plenty of time left to turn that situation around, and Liverpool has already beaten Atletico Madrid. In the Premier League, though, Arsenal has taken advantage and moved to the summit.
Gary Neville has had plenty to say about Liverpool in the last couple of days. We've rounded up everything that he spoke about during his analysis of the Reds' late loss at Chelsea, where Estevao's goal in the 95th minute was the difference.
"Useless" forwards
Speaking on The Gary Neville Podcast, Neville was critical of Mohamed Salah and Liverpool's attackers against Chelsea, where they looked fairly blunt.
"A lot has been made of Liverpool's defensive work and rightly so, but that's not why they've lost this game," he said.
"They've lost this game because in the last 15-20 minutes, their creative players, their players in the final half of the pitch, the midfield players and the forwards, were absolutely useless.
"They were giving the ball away like you wouldn't believe. Gakpo, Salah, the wastage. Wirtz, not knowing how to get into a game in the last 15 minutes when it was there for the taking and just sort of ended up almost marking Caicedo.
"I thought their front players were terrible. Salah is sublime. How can you criticize the consistency and reliability and brilliance of him?
"But some of the decisions of him today, when he comes inside and you think he should pass it or you think he should do something better with it, and his finishing was poor.
"Isak, I thought he'd started the game sharp but didn't quite get into it. Wirtz, when he came on, I was disappointed with him. He looks very immature in his knowledge of how to play the game.
"I just see him sort of jogging around, and I see him going too deep when he shouldn't go too deep, and I see him standing next to players when he shouldn't be standing next to players. Sometimes I see him being too honest — it sounds crazy going back and defending.
"He should be almost half cheating, almost like keeping an eye on that deep line midfield player just in case he can spring off him and go the other way on the counter-attack. He's quite predictable at this moment in time in terms of picking up his position and he was disappointing."
Liverpool star who "annoyed" him
Ibrahima Konate came off with an injury, Arne Slot said, but the Liverpool boss admitted he might have changed him anyway. And Neville was not happy with the center-back in possession.
"If you watch Konate on the ball at the start of the second half, he was just walking with it," the former Manchester United captain said on his podcast.
"It was frustrating and annoying me, to be honest. I think he was annoying Arne Slot as well because he’s decided to get someone on is better on the ball at the back but can’t defend as well. He’s going all in."
Reds ace called a "baby"
Milos Kerkez is 21 and is still getting used to the demands of playing for a club as big as Liverpool, but Neville did not hold back in his assessment of the Hungary left-back.
"The boy Kerkez, to be honest with you, at this point in time, he looks like a youth-team player," Neville said.
"I know he’s a good player, but he looks like he’s playing for the youth team, or the Under-21s. He looks so naive, he looks like a baby out there. He’s losing 50-50s with Neto!
"He’s had Premier League experience, it’s not like he’s come in from another country. He’s got a lot of games under his belt, he’s played at these grounds before, so I expected him to slot in.
"One, he’s playing alongside Virgil van Dijk, the best center-half in the world, so if you want to play in a back four, you want to play with great defenders and he is doing.
"And he’s got players who work hard on that side, it’s not like he’s playing on the right with [Mohamed] Salah in front of him, which is always a bit more difficult because you always get a little bit more exposed.
"But I have to say from the first 10 minutes of that game against Bournemouth on the first game of the season, he has struggled."
Jamie Carragher in agreement
Neville and Jamie Carragher were both in agreement on Conor Bradley. "I felt it was a disappointing day for Conor Bradley," Neville said. "I thought Bradley started the game well in the first five minutes on the ball.
"He did a couple of nice things down here, but I said during the first half, there’s an old adage, it’s Rio Ferdinand’s words to me every time I went out and played in that last eight or nine years: ‘Nothing down our side’.
"I don’t think Liverpool’s right side thinks that way, it hasn’t done for a number of years. Bradley had a real chance today, Szoboszlai going back into midfield, Frimpong on the bench.
"Bradley is a player that I think has got real talent and potential, but he didn’t handle Garnacho well in that first half, Garnacho I thought got the better of him. Not in doing anything amazing, I just thought he had him.
"This is Conor Bradley’s big day today, so he’s missed an opportunity. When you get an opportunity in life, you’ve got to take it, and this was a big opportunity for him.
"Arne Slot’s saying ‘go on, you’re in, big game, Chelsea away just before the international break, cement your place. I’m putting you in there in front of Frimpong, Szoboszlai’s in midfield, go’, and he’s not done it."
"Bradley still looks like an academy graduate trying to cope with the demands of playing senior football three times a week," Carragher wrote in his column for The Telegraph.
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