Published: 17:00, 6 October 2025 | Updated: 17:00, 6 October 2025

There are moments in every Liverpool game where an attack unfolds and you just expect the net to bulge.

‘Goal,’ you may mutter to the person next to you in the stadium. And most times last season, the premonition would be bang on. Not this year.

Three chances like this came by on Saturday at Stamford Bridge where Mohamed Salah cut inside on to his left foot and squared up to the goal - only to send a shot high and wide into the Shed End.

It is one issue of plenty for Arne Slot and Liverpool after a start to the season that has seen them win seven of 10 games – form which is certainly not bad enough to require a root-and-branch review. But the three they haven't won are the most recent three, all ending in disappointing defeats. So there are many problems that must be addressed, and fast.

Salah is one of them - alongside a shaky defence, underperforming big-money signings, the loss of Trent Alexander-Arnold’s unorthodox creativity, issues...