Arne Slot’s days at Liverpool are surely numbered after James Pearce shared one shocking stat on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday evening.
The Athletic reporter confirmed that the Reds failed to register a single shot on target in their Champions League clash with PSG.
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It’s the first time the Merseysiders have fired blanks all night since a 2-0 home defeat to Atalanta back in 2020.
First time Liverpool have failed to have a shot on target in a Champions League game since facing Atalanta in November 2020.
— James Pearce (@JamesPearceLFC) April 8, 2026
Arne Slot sack feels inevitable after PSG vs Liverpool
How can anyone justify keeping the manager in the job for the second leg at Anfield?
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With so much hanging in the balance – including a place in next year’s Champions League – it feels like a change, any change, has to be better than what we’re all witnessing week in week out.
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Look, we can accept losing to the reigning European champions; it happens.
But no shots on target? Not one? Finishing the first leg with 0.00 xGOT created against the Ligue 1 giants?
Liverpool created 0.00(xGOT) against PSG.
— The xG Philosophy (@xGPhilosophy) April 8, 2026
We can cite mitigating circumstances until the cows come home (and we were right to do so earlier in the campaign). However, what we’re seeing on the pitch just doesn’t resemble what a Liverpool side should look and feel like in any way, shape or form.
And if we’re all honest with ourselves, it’s been this way for quite some time.
We’ll forever be grateful to the manager for what he helped deliver last term, but for the sake of the season, Arne Slot has to go.
What are Liverpool waiting for?
We can accept that a new manager may not be able to change the outcome of our quarter-final clash with PSG in the Champions League.
But a change in the dugout would surely at least fire up this low-morale squad in the Premier League and help us limp over the line to secure Champions League qualification for 2026/27.
We’re not expecting Xabi Alonso to take over with immediate effect – that’ll have to wait until the summer.
But an interim head coach (most likely Steven Gerrard at this stage) is desperately needed to help raise standards for our remaining seven Premier League games.
We need to see a Liverpool side that at least kind of plays like a Liverpool side before the season’s out.
He plays to not lose, thinking this can save his job but he lost.
Arne Slot need to be sack straightaway. He is like a cancer need to chop off before it is too late. Last season was because he never really change the way Liverpool play. But this season he is shit. He knows nothing about soccer.
You know nothing, it’s called football in Liverpool and the UK not soccer, so unless you are from Liverpool you don’t get a say in the matter.
Football is about the current 90+mins, not about last season or the next season or next game. That’s where so many failed to assess Slot on. Too late.
Actually if he had stuck with the same formation, tactics and gegenpressing, with better players coming in from 450million, we should be at least level on stature to last season but he stubbornly stuck with his own tactics even when we did not win. That is the downfall of arne slot.
Arne, Richard and Mike. This disastrous trio must go.together.
COWARDLY PERFORMANCE from a COWARD of a coach,ENOUGH is ENOUGH REMOVE HIM YESTERDAY…
We should knock on Jurgen’s door to take us to the end of the season. Next season it would be wonderful if he continues otherwise Xabi comes in. Arne, doesn’t know what he is doing other then boring us to death. He did well for a club like Feyernoord where there was no pressure. He is not an elite manager at all so much so that even those fighting relegation won’t want him. He should either resign or be sacked enough is enough.
Slot was given 450 million last summer to take Liverpool to the next level, to close the gap on the very best teams in Europe. Last night proved that that gap has widened, we were totally outclassed, PSG had 70 percent possession and we were given a lesson on possession football and how it should be done. Slot picked a team to keep the score down and parked the bus.
This is not progress, definitely not 450 million worth of progress. If FSG were watching last night they would be asking why have we gone backwards after giving slot a fortune to improve. There were times last night when Liverpool players were looking around in frustration because they didn’t know the role they were supposed to be doing. Slot said earlier in the season that he would never betray his beliefs on playing attacking football. Last night threw that philosophy out of the window.
We have gone backwards under slot, a team with an abundance of talent but a team that’s not coached properly, without a gameplan, terrible without the ball, and if there’s any Liverpool supporter who still backs slot, last night was the final proof that we need a new manager. It was men playing boys.
PSG, Possession football at its best, Liverpool, you’ll never see a team that’s gone so bad after spending 450 million.
That’s Arne slots legacy at Liverpool football club.
We have 0 shots on target and 0xg. And he left our best player from last season on the bench. How can we expect to score when we are always in defensive mode? Insanity is doing the same thing again and again but hoping for a different result.
I totally agree slot has to go and maybe should have done after the city thrashing there is serious problems when you have some of the best players in world football in isak salah ekitike wirtz gakpo and cant even manage a single shot thats clearly a tactics problem that again come back to management its getting pathetic and if were not careful we wont have champs league either next season
Slot out Alonso in NOW. Yes, this may derail the rest of the season but getting him in now, he can properly review the squad ready for next year. We are really lacking pace and energy all over but especially up front and in midfield. PSG had both in abundance and totally powered through us, while we looked as if we were running through treacle. 450m spent poorly, not totally, Kerkez will come good, Frimpong is a good squad addition Ekitike is great but spending 125m on ISAK and 115m on Wirtz when we needed a left winger, defensive midfielder and a centre back, minimum was bloody stupid. For me I think we should get rid of Gomez, McAllister and Konate to start with, and try and get Barcola, Diomande, Camavinga, Anderson, Lukeba, Rogers and Lacroix. Obviously, we would not be able to get all of them as we would be looking at approx. 550m+ but we need a good proportion of them not simply for the starting line up but because Slott and Hughes have destroyed the squad as a whole.
Alonso needs to come in early as we have world cup disruptions. Now is the best time.
Watching PSG last night my comments to a mate….If you watch 80% of the time when they attack our whole backline is running towards our goal when we attack it is so slow and isolated that they are always set or have 2 on 1s. They rarely pass backwards whereas we break out to the wing and then pass back to the CB who takes three touches while they move 15-20m into defence. The speed with which they move the ball makes space, the speed we move the ball closes space. As an example, What we see here is two different philosophies one is playing pass and move at pace the other is playing have four touches, allow the opposition either to steal the ball or get behind the ball and that is coaching – ponderous build up play like some shitty copy of Guardiola of 5 years ago with players who are not suited to it and where football has moved on -What the fuck is wrong with a first time pass? We will get chances.but everything is so uncoordinated up top . A great pass only Etikite breaking forward and no out pass for him result in us coughing up the ball and defending a counter yet again! Extraordinary that he’s not brought Salah on -After missing the pen he’d have been champing at the bit. Frimpong was pants, he’s too lightweight and gets stuck in no man’s land. I have been listening to you about Slot but he’s not a Liverpool manager- he doesn’t get the club, his football concept might sound good in theory but in practice it’s a derivative Guardiola wanna be style and I’m not for it-and even with other players next season I can’t see it working because it’s not snappy, it’s not pacy and it’s over complicated.
Slot said after the PSG game
We are on survival mode
Does he understand that he is the manager of Liverpool?
The club spent 400 million to bring 6 players
not one of them can go one on one and the five lack genuine pace
It really hurts watching PSG play like the Liverpool we enjoyed under Klop
They didn’t buy an experienced central defender, they didn’t buy a quality defensive midfielder and by selling Diaz there is no forward that can go one on one
He wasn’t alone Hughes and Edwards are as equally responsible for waisting that money
Obviously Slot has lost his belief in the team
Better he leaves now and the other 2 resign by the end of the season