Three months in and it has already been a season of highs and lows for Liverpool.

A run of five straight wins to start the team’s Premier League title defense. Then a streak of four consecutive losses.

Before the international break, an impressive 1-0 victory over Real Madrid in the Champions League was celebrated as some sort of revival. That was immediately shot down in a dispiriting 3-0 defeat at Manchester City — a result Arne Slot has had to stew over for the past two weeks.

An eight-point deficit to league leader Arsenal certainly isn’t insurmountable, yet — on current form — the gap is more likely to widen than close.

It apears to be time for the English champions to start playing like one, beginning with a home match against Nottingham Forest on Saturday.

That kicks off a

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