After watching Liverpool s four finals, I realized how thrilling Slot s road to championship is

When Salah used a cool-to-ultimate penalty to penetrate Burnley goal in the 95th minute of stoppage time, Anfield's fans breathed a sigh of relief. Four games, four wins, 12 points. The defending champions started with a perfect start and led the Premier League standings.

However, under this perfect record, there are one life-long victory after another. In four consecutive games, Liverpool relied on goals in the last moment of the game to win hard.

The winning is a proof of the champion's heart's strength, but when the winning becomes a dependency, it becomes the most dangerous signal. The three major stubborn diseases exposed behind this dull 1-0 are questioning coach Slot. If it cannot be resolved as soon as possible, I am afraid the road to defending the title will be full of thorns.

Always a decisive victory

Let's review Liverpool's four wins this season:

vs. Bournemouth, Chiesa won in the 88th minute.

vs. Newcastle, Ngumoha won the finale in the 100th minute.

Against Arsenal, Sobosloy scored his throat with a sword in the 83rd minute.

In this game, Salah scored a penalty kick in the 95th minute.

On the surface, this is the embodiment of the team's perseverance and never giving up. But the other side of the coin is the huge problem for the team in positional offense. Why is a team with top attackers such as Wilz, Salah, and Ekitic always unable to solve the battle in regular time? The answer was revealed in the more than 90 minutes between

against Burnley.

Liverpool's offense is slow, and the team doesn't have many ways to deal with Burnley's shrinking iron barrel formation. The frontcourt Trident Gakpo, Salah and Ekitic all fell into a downturn. They get too many balls on the wing but are inefficient. In the middle, Ekitic seemed isolated and helpless under the strangle of three opponent's central defenders.

The team always seems to want to score a perfect goal, and it is over and over at the front of the penalty area, but lacks the decisiveness of the last pass or shot. This hesitation made Burnley's defense more calm.

Wilz will realize her value

Liverpool spent 116 million pounds to sign Florian Wiltz from Leverkusen to solve the stubborn problem of breaking the situation last season when facing a low post defense.

However, after several games, although this German genius has always had a flash of inspiration, it is still a big gap from people's expectations.

This game is the moment when he needs to stand up. But in the first half, he fell into silence with the team. In the second half, as the team's pace accelerated, Wilz's performance became more and more outstanding, and his wonderful breakthrough shot almost broke the deadlock. He also played some exquisite small-scale cooperation with his teammates near the penalty area.

But overall, he has not shown the decisive influence of changing the situation of the game with his own strength. Slott and fans know that games like today should have been Wiltz's hunting ground. How to activate this Mr. Billion and make him truly the team's offensive brain is one of Slot's most difficult problems at present.

Why is Isaac hidden? When Liverpool couldn't defeat it for a long time, countless fans were asking the same question: What about Isaac, which we bought for £125 million?

Surprisingly, this Swedish forward did not even make it to the roster for this game. After the game, Slott gave the answer: he was preparing for the Champions League match against Atletico Madrid in the mid-week, and his body was not ready.

Slott explained that Isaac missed the entire preseason, and now he is equivalent to just starting his preseason training.

This prudence reflects Slott's responsibility for the long-term health of the players. But this also exposed another dilemma of the team: when the toughest attack is most needed, the sharpest spear cannot play.

Slott admitted that Isaac can only play 45 minutes at most. This means that for a long time to come, the bidding king will appear as a substitute. Fans must be patient.

Fortunately, Hannibal's handball and Salah's calmness made Slott hide Isaac's decision without paying the price. But will the team be so lucky next time?

38-minute warning In the 38th minute of the game, Slott made an extremely rare decision: in a non-injury situation, Robertson replaced the starting left-back Kolkerz.

This time the substitution is full of tactical wisdom and courage. Cockz just received a yellow card 15 minutes ago because of a stupid fake fall. Then, he was on the verge of being sent off in another foul. Slott did not wait for the halftime break, and he decisively dismantled the time bomb, avoiding the team from falling into a desperate situation where ten people faced the challenge.

The substitution this time also seemed like a warning. It reminds young players on the team that any irrational behavior in Slott's team can immediately lose your game.

won four consecutive victories, and the start was perfect. But Slot's Liverpool is far from reaching its best. The journey of defending the champion has just begun.