After a 1-1 draw against Nottingham Forest in the week, Liverpool will head to Brentford on Saturday to try and extend their lead at the top of the table.
Despite a positive result against the team who sit in 3rd place, the Reds have not won a league game in 2025 and have only managed to record one clean sheet in the last seven games
However, Arne Slot believes there is no cause for concern due to his team facing unusual circumstances where the opposition have been clinical with the small amount of chances given to them.
"I wouldn't say it's a concern but it's also not what we want because it was one of our strengths at the beginning of the season when we kept a lot of clean sheets" said the Dutchmen.
He continued: " I think if I look at the amount of chances we gave away in the last seven games and I look at how many chances we gave away in all the games before, I don't see much difference.
"The only difference is that the teams we are facing at the moment – so, Forest for example, they had one serious shot on target and that was a goal. That is not normal in football and this has happened to us.
"United had maybe three good chances against us and scored two, Tottenham had hardly any chances apart from the one when where Ali [Alisson Becker] lost the ball and the one chance they had in the end they scored.
"So, that is, like with strikers, sometimes a phase in the season where you hardly concede anything but still they score. I've said already, Crystal Palace away, that we beat 1-0, 10 minutes before the end they went one-v-one against Vit [Vitezslav Jaros] and that was a bigger chance than some goals we have conceded recently.
"Sometimes you are a bit lucky and sometimes your goalkeeper makes a great save. But like the amount of chances we create, we hardly concede a chance and that has been the same for the whole season, but when it comes to collecting points I also see a bit of a difference at the moment compared to the beginning of the season."
Slot on his attacking options
So far this season in the league, Liverpool have scored 48 goals which is the highest amount of any side.
The red-hot form of Slot's forwards have forced him to experiment by putting players in different positions such as Luis Diaz who has featured as a centre forward.
This decision has paid off with the Colombian attacker getting 8 goals and 2 assists in 19 games.
Speaking about his innovative idea, Slot said: "Lucho [Luis Diaz] has done really well as a nine and [at] West Ham just before the winter break that was the performance of us as a team but from him as a nine also very good.
"Afterwards, he played there in three more games, I think – United, Tottenham and the last one against Forest – and in all games we've created many chances as a team, and that's the most important thing.
"I'm happy with how he does if we play him as a left-winger and I'm happy how he plays when we play him as a nine."
One player who has struggled to break into the starting squad and is receiving lots of criticism online for his performances is Darwin Nunez.
The Uruguayan has 2 goals and 2 assists in the Premier League so far which is considerably low when you factor in his huge price tag but his manager is happy with the performances he has seen.
Slot said:"That's your perception and maybe the perception of other people as well – but it's not my perception that he's struggling with self-confidence. He was involved against Accrington Stanley in the first goal again as well, he was involved in the goal against Fulham that [Diogo] Jota scored and he scored one against Southampton.
"I think after that it wasn't that he had many starts – maybe one time, I don't know exactly. For me, it's the life of a striker – sometimes you score, sometimes you don't. And he hasn't started every single game.
"The most important thing for me is that we as a team were able to score every single game, except for the Tottenham one and [Nottingham Forest]. So, it tells me that we have so many goals in our team.
"Darwin will score his goals, like he did for this club already and he will keep doing this. But I don't see him struggling that much as the way you see it and he's still involved in goals in the last few games as well."
