Andy Robertson has admitted Liverpool failed to follow their gameplan in a brutally honest assessment of the Reds’ 3-2 defeat to Brentford. Arne Slot’s side were brought crashing back down to earth after returning to winning ways against Eintracht Frankfurt in midweek, as they fell to a fourth successive Premier League defeat.

Dango Outarra opened the scoring after just five minutes as he finished at the far post following a Bees long throw, before Kevin Schade added a second when running through onto Mikkel Damsgaard’s through-ball.

Milos Kerkez pulled one back from close-range in first half stoppage-time with his first Liverpool goal. But the Hungarian’s poor start to his Reds career continued as he was withdrawn just after the hour-mark for Robertson.

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By this point, Slot’s men had fallen further behind to an Igor Thiago penalty. And while Mohamed Salah halved the deficit late on, Liverpool were unable to overturn the deficit as they suffered a fifth defeat from their last...