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Arne Slot Reveals Plan to Fix Major Liverpool Problem

Liverpool keep winning, but not without wrinkles. Saturday’s 2-1 victory over Wolves delivered a third consecutive Premier League win, yet also reinforced a season long theme: this side still oscillates between ruthless control and avoidable chaos. At 2-0 up, Anfield expected procession. Instead, Wolves found encouragement in familiar Liverpool slippage. Unlike earlier episodes, it didn’t mutate into a damaging plot twist, but the need for refinement remains emphasised.

Low Block Breaking, Reimagined

Liverpool’s difficulty unpicking deep defences has been well documented, even if Wolves briefly deviated from the script. The irony, of course, is that once Liverpool pierced Gary O’Neil’s low block, they did so again quickly, almost carelessly easily. It was the ignition phase, the moments before the first crack, that felt laboured. That first fissure, however, came courtesy of a player Liverpool fans have been waiting to see at full throttle, Jeremie Frimpong.

Frimpong’s first months on Merseyside have been stop start, an injury cloud slowing the download of Slot’s system into his game. But fitness has a way of changing perception. Supporters finally got a convincing look at Frimpong’s potential as Liverpool’s most disruptive wide accelerant, a role that could soon prove decisive against stubborn low blocks. Slot made no attempt to obscure the point, leaning directly into it with Dutch directness.

“We were not always able to use the players we brought in. Jeremie is a great example, if he’s fit he can definitely help us,” Slot explained. “Last week he had the assist against Tottenham and today he had a great assist against Wolves. “Pace, that’s what he has and that’s so important and crucial in modern day football because to create something against a low block, teams that defend with so many players, usually teams break that down with set pieces, that’s not our biggest strength. To have him available with his pace, because the goal we scored, the first one, it was pure individual ability. Quick, bam bam.”

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Slot’s Tactical Lever: Speed First

Arne Slot arrived at Liverpool promising structure, control, and intelligent chance creation. He delivered the Premier League title in 2024/25, a staggering first season success that immediately reframed expectations around his tenure. In 2025, the challenge isn’t legitimacy, it’s evolution. Slot has earned patience, but he clearly wants more dynamite for the moments when precision needs supplementing with punch.

Frimpong might be that lever. Not as a facsimile of Trent Alexander Arnold, but as an antidote to the tactical stalemates Liverpool can stumble into when defences refuse to move. There were doubts when he arrived, especially from fans imagining a like for like stylistic heir to Liverpool’s generational right back. But Frimpong isn’t built for comparison, he’s built for collisions, and Saturday’s assist for Ryan Gravenberch was a small proof of concept.

His pace forced a defensive question Wolves could not answer cleanly. When a team compresses space, speed expands the problem, it drags defenders out of posture, it invites the kind of transitional panic that deep blocks are designed to avoid. Liverpool will continue to see that principle weaponised, not theorised.

Jeremie Frimpong, X Factor Against Leeds and Beyond

Liverpool’s fixture list won’t soften in 2025. The upcoming clash with Leeds at Anfield is expected to feature a similar low block approach. Slot now has two fit right back options, with Conor Bradley returning in the second half against Wolves. Selection will intrigue, but strategy will matter more. Liverpool want pace wide, early, and repeatedly. Frimpong is now positioned to supply it.

As Slot noted candidly, “That’s the pace I always wanted to bring in in the summer. That’s what we did with Hugo [Ekitike], Jeremie and with Alex [Isak] as well but unfortunately not all of the money we have spent we have used because of injuries.”

Liverpool have won the league already under Slot, but their 2025 story will hinge on new tactical layers. Frimpong, once a disrupted investment, could now become the side’s most valuable low block irritant. And Jeremie Frimpong irritated at speed might be Liverpool’s favourite version yet.