🚨 EOTK Insider with Neil Jones: Questions Arne Slot must answer at Liverpool, Klopp faces Ferguson-esque challenge, what might have gone against Amorim and much more!

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[From left to right: Ruben Amorim, Arne Slot and Mo Salah]

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Today’s top stories:

• Jurgen Klopp faces Alex Ferguson challenge…

• Why Xabi Alonso couldn’t be ruled out despite Ruben Amorim concern

• And further updates on Mo Salah, Arne Slot, Ruben Amorim and more!

West Ham review

I didn’t expect Liverpool to be fantastic at West Ham. It’s an early kick-off and it’s not a stadium that lends itself to rip-roaring atmospheres at the best of times, but certainly not in the 12:30pm slot against a team that is quite functional as opposed to being wide open and gung-ho. So, I didn’t expect this to be a game that got us all hooked back into falling in love. That said, there will certainly be plenty of frustration because it was a game Liverpool should have won and were in a position to win with 12 minutes to go. It felt like a microcosm of Liverpool in recent weeks; cheap goals conceded from crosses, chances coming and going (I saw there was a stat where Cody Gakpo alone had eight shots and didn’t put one on target), scruffy goals but no real sense that Liverpool were clinical or were going to answer questions that have cropped up in recent weeks about both ends of the pitch. When you don’t take your chances and don’t convert, it leaves you open to the other issue Liverpool have had, which is not being able to keep them out at the other end.