Liverpool seek solace from domestic woes in Champions League against PSV

VIDEO SHOWS: LIVERPOOL TRAINING AND PRESS CONFERENCE COMMENTS FROM HEAD COACH, ARNE SLOT, AHEAD OF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE MATCH AWAY TO PSV SHOWS: LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (NOVEMBER 25, 2025) (NICHE MEDIA – Access all) 1. (SOUNDBITE) (English) LIVERPOOL HEAD COACH, ARNE SLOT, ON THEIR RECENT FORM, SAYING: "How I would describe it? As ridiculous, almost. Something I didn't expect to be in, not at any club I was ever going to work out, let alone if you play at Liverpool – not play, I wish I played – if you manage Liverpool. So that is unbelievable. I've said many times over here you cannot find… if you even can find an excuse, you will never find enough excuses to make it that you perform like this. So that's that's unexpected for the club, for me, for everyone. But we're also, I'm also working at a club, if there was ever a club you need to face this maybe this is the best club to face it because the harder it gets at a club like this, the more we are together, the more we are trying to achieve the things that Liverpool usually achieve." 2. LIVERPOOL CAPTAIN, VIRGIL VAN DIJK, WALKING OUT FOR TRAINING 3. PLAYERS WALKING OUT 4. SLOT/ FULL-BACK, ANDREW ROBERTSON 5. (SOUNDBITE) (English) LIVERPOOL HEAD COACH, ARNE SLOT, ON WHETHER HE FEELS UNDER PRESSURE, SAYING:  "Yeah but it has nothing to do with the situation like this. I think every day you have to prove yourself if you are working at a club of this level. So you cannot say we won the league or we did this or this, and now everything is okay. If you work at this level, the next game is always the one that's most important and you have to prove yourself every single time. That's for me, that's for the players. And that is also what we like about working in this environment that you can never rest. You always have to keep going if things go well but definitely also if things don't go well. So, yes, I don't know if I have to prove myself to the fans as well as I have to prove myself to myself and to the players and to everyone involved in the football club." 6. FORWARD, CODY GAKPO 7. VARIOUS OF SLOT 8. (SOUNDBITE) (English) LIVERPOOL HEAD COACH, ARNE SLOT, SAYING: "In terms of conceding last season we've conceded zero set pieces up to now. Now we've conceded nine. So the amount of goals we’ve conceded and the amount of goals coming from set pieces is again close to ridiculous for a club like us. Of course, there are very probably more details that are different but the biggest one is the goals we concede goes because from open play we are still able to generate enough chances for us to get a result. But after half an hour, the first time you have to defend and they score a goal, that is, of course, not what we did last season and not of our standards." 9. MIDFIELDER, ALEXIS MAC ALLISTER, TALKING TO MEMBERS OF COACHING STAFF 10. MIDFIELDER, DOMINIK SZOBOSZLAI, KICKING BALL/ PLAYERS WALKING ACROSS PITCH 11. PLAYERS INCLUDING FORWARD, ALEXANDER ISAK, AND MIDFIELDER, RYAN GRAVENBERCH, LISTENING TO SLOT 12. (SOUNDBITE) (English) LIVERPOOL HEAD COACH, ARNE SLOT, ON PSV, SAYING: "Well, I wouldn't say it's a good opponent, to have right now. I think they're probably better than ever. But you are watching them for three years in a row. But I think they had a different difficult spell last season at the end of the season and maybe didn't start that well the first part of this season although the results were good. But the last two, three months, they are just a winning machine, very comfortable on the ball defensively, much more solid than in the start of the season or the period they had last season. So, yeah, the best person to answer that is Peter (Bosz) of course, himself. But I think this team comes close to the best team he's managed at PSV." 13. VARIOUS OF PLAYERS WARMING UP 14. FORWARD, MOHAMED SALAH, RUNNING WARM-UP DRILL FOLLOWED BY FULL-BACK, MILOS KERKEZ, AND FORWARD, HUGO EKITIKE 15. VARIOUS OF PLAYERS WARMING UP STORY: Liverpool host PSV Eindhoven on Wednesday (November 26) hoping Europe can provide relief from a domestic nightmare for the Premier League champions that boss Arne Slot called "ridiculous." Liverpool have lost eight of their last 11 matches in all competitions, including a bruising 3-0 defeat by lowly Nottingham Forest at the weekend that left them languishing 12th in the top flight and piled pressure on their Dutch manager. "It is ridiculous. It is unbelievable," Slot said of his team's worrying form. "I have said many times you will never find enough excuses for us to perform like this. It's unexpected for the club, for me, for everyone. "But this is maybe the best club to face it, the harder it gets at this club, the more we are together." Europe's elite club competition has been a bit of a reprieve for Liverpool, with victories in three of four games, including a 1-0 win over Real Madrid, to leave them eighth on nine points. Asked if he had to prove himself to the fans, Slot said: "It has nothing to do with a situation like this. Every day, you have to prove yourself at this level. You can't say I won a league or anything like that. "You have to win the next game, for me and the players," he added. "That's the environment I like to work in. I don't know if I need to prove myself to the fans as well as I have to prove myself to myself." Slot said the team's defensive frailties had been decisive. "The amount of goals we concede is the big difference between this season and the last," he said. "The first time (Forest) arrived in our 18-yard box with a set-piece, they scored. It took us a while to recover from that. "In terms of conceding last season, we had let in zero set-pieces at this time last season. This season, it's nine. From open play, we still generate enough chances ourselves to score goals." The solution, said Slot, lies in collective responsibility. "The whole team has to help out defensively in order to get us out of the slump," he noted. Liverpool face a tough opponent in PSV, who are six points clear atop the Eredivisie with 11 wins in 13 games. They stand 18th in the Champions League table with five points. "I wouldn't say it's a good opponent to have right now," Slot said. "They had a difficult spell last season and the start of this season, but in the last two or three months they are a winning machine." The Reds can at least take some encouragement from their recent form in home Champions League games, with victories in their last 13 in either the league or group stage. (Production: Conal Quinn)

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