Doing all the crowds and pyro around the bus to get absolutely annihilated at home to Forest is top tier Spursy.

The game has been wonderfully attritional. Been everything it was built up to be. Can't fault either team for work rate. Forest look like they have a bit more composure and quality with the ball, though. Sexond half might be one of the halves of the season.

Spurs vs Nottingham Forest is a bigger game than City vs Arsenal today.

Absolutely. Throw Milner in there, too. I have no doubts that they would power us to moee points. Even if they don't produce a lot of key moments on the ball. Just the application alone that they'd install would make us infinitely harder to beat. No question. #LFC #Redsky

Last season, I praised Slot for simplifying what he wanted from Gakpo. It worked and created a Gakpo/Salah tandem. In many ways, he did the same with Salah. Same result. I think both players are now suffering because of it. The freedom they played once with is almost all gone. #LFC #Redsky

Kerkez: a kid still learning the ropes amongst a circus of clowns. Hurt him in the first few weeks, that. Absolutely rate him highly for picking up his season through this. Still can be rash. But he's adapting with each game. Never shirks anything. Has a good future with us. #LFC #Redsky

Konate: has more mitigating circumstances than most. But, frankly, is just really low on confidence. I don't think it's more than that. Making basic, soft errors - that's just someone who's unsure at the mo. But could argues that he shouldn't be that way as a multi-winning 26 year old. #LFC #Redsky

VVD: not a "wartime captain". Not his fault - that's just his nature. He's lost his "aura" and a lot of his "calm". Now he just looks rushed and slow. He's blagging confidence right now. He's as shaky as everyone else - but he's not adapting his game to that. Needs an arm around him. #LFC #Redsky

Wirtz: timid. You want him as close to the oppo goal as possible - not just because of what he can do to them, but also what it prevents him causing to your team. Very lax on the ball. Right now, I can tell you what he consistently does wrong more than what he does right. #LFC #Redsky

Arne Slot: out of his depth. I'm convinced that the perfect set of circumstances helped us to win the league last season. And even more convince that, without it, we'd get more of this season after season. Good coach. But not at this level - and has shown her isn’t a long-term fit for #LFC. #Redsky

Gakpo: a functional player. Believe it or not, he never used to be a "one trick pony". But I think how he's being used has made him one. Works hard but often aimlessly. Terrible off the ball. Doesn't get his head up at all. Probably shouldn't be starting for #LFC at this level. #Redsky

Morning #Redsky! I said 4 months ago that the team is badly coached. At that point, I knew it'd be difficult for Slot. Because it meant 1 (or all) of 3 things happening: bad training, bad translation of methods or players not accepting it. All bad. All death knells for a manager. #LFC

He's a human being, Chris. It's not easy to separate your personal life from your professional - especially because your personal one is always more important. Anyway, this could be separate from the fact that he's low on confidence. Practically the entire team is. #LFC #Redsky

Right, let's get this started... And, let me just say, this doesn't mean that these are bad players/staff - it just means that the circumstances needed for them to do well are not at #LFC currently. Thread below: #Redsky

After this match, I'm going to do something I rarely do and give my opinion on individual players. I think there haven't been enough conversations around some of them. So I'm just going to be brutally honest. #LFC #Redsky

After this match, I'm going to do something I rarely do and give my opinion on individual players. I think there haven't been enough conversations around some of them. So I'm just going to be brutally honest. #LFC #Redsky

That's not on the keeper - that's on Konate. Made the error for the throw then got blasted by Danny f**king Welbeck. We're back to our regularly scheduled performances. #LFC #Redsky

Nowt malicious about the tackle. Two bodies colliding. One body made of Quaker Oats. Just unfortunate. #LFC #Redsky

Salah and Ekitike out. Damn. #LFC #Redsky

1-0 ##GALLIV Whatever happens here, this team can't win the UCL. We're utterly toothless. It's another game we should be winning by 6 that we're only narrowly winning. This just isn't anywhere near good enough at this level. #LFC #Redsky

I doubt this will be the case. I'm not prepared to pretend like these players have been Space Jam'd into terrible players. They may not be as fast/good as a year ago, but they're still better than 80% of players in their positions on their day. Just make getting "their days" easier. #LFC #Redsky

Salah last year was a great example of Slot creating the conditions for him to perform - and he had arguably his best season. We weren't saying he's "done" then. It's possible to get a lot more - it just takes tactics that create the circumstances to perform. #LFC #Redsky

I doubt this will be the case. I'm not prepared to pretend like these players have been Space Jam'd into terrible players. They may not be as fast/good as a year ago, but they're still better than 80% of players in their positions on their day. Just make getting "their days" easier. #LFC #Redsky

You lot think the players should "do better". I think they need the circumstances to do so. For example, you can't "come on, lad" Macca to run faster/more. That's conditioning. That's tactics that mean he's covering smaller spaces/gaps. May even be motivation. That's ALL coaching. #LFC #Redsky

I feel like there's lots of "egg before the chicken" stuff here. Individual performances don't work independently from team tactics. In fact, I'd argue that the individual performances of players is what's keeping us in this race. What's hurting us is poor team performance. #LFC #Redsky

Players execute. Coaches create the system for execution. Bad performance isn't always effort. Sometimes it's bad positioning. Fix the framework before blaming the person.

You lot think the players should "do better". I think they need the circumstances to do so. For example, you can't "come on, lad" Macca to run faster/more. That's conditioning. That's tactics that mean he's covering smaller spaces/gaps. May even be motivation. That's ALL coaching. #LFC #Redsky

I feel like there's lots of "egg before the chicken" stuff here. Individual performances don't work independently from team tactics. In fact, I'd argue that the individual performances of players is what's keeping us in this race. What's hurting us is poor team performance. #LFC #Redsky

1-1 #LIVTOT The best way to describe where #LFC are at the moment is to acknowledge that this depleted, relegation-battling Spurs side were considerably better than us - and, for me, there's no coming back from that. It's over for Slot, sadly. Maybe not this season but long-term. #Redsky

1-1 #LIVTOT The best way to describe where #LFC are at the moment is to acknowledge that this depleted, relegation-battling Spurs side were considerably better than us - and, for me, there's no coming back from that. It's over for Slot, sadly. Maybe not this season but long-term. #Redsky

We won't win this.

Wirtz is doing my head in. I'm sorry. #LFC #Redsky

1-0 #LIVTOT We're sh*t. Spurs are sh*tter. But they've been better than us in the sense that things are probably going more to their game plan than ours. This is where we are - really just getting by on individual bits of brilliance and opponent mistakes. Maddening. #LFC #Redsky

Morning #Redsky! It's graft watching this team. It's not fun at all. I think i said back in Dec that it was a badly coached team and got pelters. It is a badly coached team. I'm not sugar coating it - I'm just going to caption reality. It shouldn't be controversial to just be honest. #LFC

Morning #Redsky! It's graft watching this team. It's not fun at all. I think i said back in Dec that it was a badly coached team and got pelters. It is a badly coached team. I'm not sugar coating it - I'm just going to caption reality. It shouldn't be controversial to just be honest. #LFC

Most notable aspect of that Liverpool game - beyond the warning for the PL over set-pieces being officiated - was how many bad decisions they made in attack. It felt like almost everything was always wrong, or mis-hit.

Us scoring a goal and the whole team just standing there, as guilty as sin thinking "f**k off have we scored!" has to be the most infuriating thing I've seen in football this year. Who the f**k's drummed that into them??!! #LFC #Redsky

We score a goal and our own team go "nah, it's a foul"... I'm f**king done, man! #LFC #Redsky

Pass, pass, slightly bad pass, run down the wing, pass back to Gomez, aimless cross - and repeat. #LFC #Redsky

"Liverpool knew it was going to be difficult" And on the off chance it wasn't they'd do everything in their power to ensure it is. Game's been mad. Another Liverpool game where it looks like a surprise to a few of them as well. I am finding watching Mac Allister to be graft.

1-0 #GALLIV Furious with that half. Out muscled. Lost every second ball. Defence at sea. MF slow. ATT non-existent. Not working had enough off ball. Not passing well enough on ball. Mad decisions. A cowardly display so far. Need a humongous display just to keep it 1-0. I mean that. #LFC #Redsky

Konate/Van Dijk horror show, so far. Unsure with everything that's coming their way. Again, it just looks like a distinct lack of preparation or, at least, readiness for a situation we ALL KNEW was going to play out like this. Why do we look shocked by all of this??!!! 😡😡 #LFC #Redsky

Really bad start, from both an attacking and defensive POV. Really worrying signs. #LFC #Redsky

Refs are desperate to help United out here. You will not see a double jeopardy decision like that again this season.

5-2 #LIVWHU hahahahahahahaaaa. UTFR. 🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴 #LFC #Redsky

3-0 #LIVWHU hahahahahahaha. #LFC #Redsky

This ain't even an "ugly win". In ugly wins, you can not play good football but still deserve to win. This feels like fate might have pressed the wrong button. Like destiny had a mad Saturday night. Does karma have VAR? Because... 😳😳😳😳 #LFC #Redsky

0-1 #NOTLIV We won. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ 🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭 #LFC #Redsky

We're losing this...

They may, however, come out and play exactly the same - in which case, we'll get smashed by Forest again. So here's hoping they just get better. Somehow. Anyhow. And then hoping that better is good enough. #LFC #Redsky