Liverpool has received plenty of praise in the opening months of the season and rightly so, considering the Reds are flying high on all fronts.
Arne Slot’s men sit top of the Premier League, and moved to the top of the Champions League standings with a 4-0 win over Bayer Leverkusen that maintained their 100 percent start to the revamped competition.
Luis Diaz notched a hat-trick while Cody Gakpo also scored, with all of Liverpool’s goals coming in the second half. Here, we’ve rounded up what sections of the UK media made of the win.
The Guardian, unsurprisingly, focussed on Liverpool’s improved performance after the interval: “After a sterile first half, when Alonso’s tactics left Liverpool wondering who to press, the game and the hosts exploded into life after the break.
Luis Diaz was handed a rare start as a central striker and produced the first hat-trick of his Liverpool career. A thumping header from Cody Gakpo, two minutes after Díaz’s delightful opener, soon took the contest away from Leverkusen. They were dissected in the second half and a team that won the Bundesliga without losing a league game last season departed chastened.
“It was a harrowing return for Alonso, who endured the heaviest defeat of his managerial reign since losing 5-1 at Eintracht Frankfurt 10 days after taking the Leverkusen job in October 2022.”
Meanwhile, The Athletic laid out the statistics behind Arne Slot’s stunning start to life as Reds boss. The article said: “Arne Slot doesn’t have Alonso’s Liverpool backstory. Nor does the former Feyenoord coach have the box-office presence of his predecessor, Jurgen Klopp.
