MANCHESTER, England :Liverpool manager Arne Slot admitted that talk of a Premier League title challenge was premature given their current form as he candidly analysed his side's humbling 3-0 away defeat to rivals Manchester City on Sunday.

The trouncing marked the reigning champions' fifth league loss of the season - one more than all of the last campaign - and sent Slot's men sliding down the table to eighth place after 11 games, eight points adrift of leaders Arsenal and four behind City.

"It feels there's too many (losses)," Slot told reporters. "And the last thing I should speak about now is the title race. We should first focus on getting results - result after result after result - before we can even think about that. The reality is that we are eighth.

"I said last season, many ti

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