Arne Slot has just made his most ridiculous excuse yet | OneFootball

Arne Slot has just tried to claim the most ridiculous thing he's ever claimed.

Liverpool have been shambles all season and the club's head-coach has been responsible for a lot of the shortcomings at Anfield.

Slot has been unable to inspire his team, and he's been on a barren run. Liverpool have won just nine of their last 26 matches in the Premier League - enduring 10 defeats in the process.

If it wasn't for somehow cruising their way through the first five matches of the campaign, where they won every single game, Liverpool could be in a terrible position right now.

Alas, because of that positive start, Slot's side still have a chance of qualifying for the Champions League but not if they continue to perform in the way they have been performing all season - especially not in the way they performed against Manchester City on Saturday in the FA Cup.

If the current form persists, it's hard to envisage a world in which Liverpool finish in the top five in the Premier League. Losing to Wolverhampton, drawing to a Tottenham side going through their worst spell of the season, and then losing to Brighton before being annihilated by Manchester City was indicative of why Liverpool have a genuine chance of missing out on Europe's elite competition.

The problem with Liverpool has been the fact that Slot has simply denied there has been any problems at all. He's acting calm and for a manager who is supposed to be known for his brutal honesty, it doesn't really come across that he is being entirely honest.

For someone who has worked in the game so long, he definitely should be able to pinpoint Liverpool's problems rather than cast the blame on others. If he isn't able to pinpoint those issues, which is becoming apparent, the issue becomes far larger.

In a recent press conference, building up to Liverpool's encounter with Galatasaray, the club's head-coach proved this with a ludicrous statement.

Slot was asked about whether he is concerned about the fact that Tottenham ran 15% more than Liverpool in the 1-1 draw.

“Shows how much the ball we had. Doesn't concern me at all. I saw us sprinting back in the last minutes. In general we are sprinting back when it's needed in most situations," he said.

“I can say that 80 or 90% of games I have managed, my team has outworked the other team and my teams have created more chances than the other team. The outcome does not always do justice to that - that's the beauty of football and being in a low-scoring sport."

Now on the surface, Slot might have a point but here's why he's totally wrong. In theory a team that has the ball should run less.

However, this should not be the case if the team wants to breakdown a low-block. When that is the case, you still need a lot of running out of possession.

Ideally against a low-block, you want your players constantly moving, trying to find and exploit that tiny gap of space that you can penetrate.

Football is a game of movement, it's a game of exploiting space and Slot doesn't seem to comprehend that at all.

Here's the most ridiculous part of his statement though and it's the fact that he claims that Liverpool have either created more chances or outworked the other team in 80-90% of the games he's managed.

This simply cannot apply to this season. In most games, Liverpool's opponents create more clear-cut chances, including big chances and they outrun the opposition. It's so clear that this is the case on the eye test that it's baffling to think Slot would even try to claim otherwise.

And if you didn't think that could be topped, Slot's gone even further with his most ridiculous statement to date.

After the defeat to Manchester City, he went onto be grilled by one of the journalists in the press conference who asked why his team wasn't doing the basics.

"That I don’t agree with what you are saying. But in moments you are completely right," Slot said.

"If you say to me from the 15 runs Man City players make, 15 times my players don’t run, I disagree with you. But if you simply look at the goals, there I see runs that are not being followed, I see crosses not being blocked, I see duels in front of goal that are not won. Then you are completely right.

"That’s not the story of the whole game, but every single time we forget to block a cross, we forget to defend in front of goal, we forget to follow our runner, every single time it’s a goal."

Here, Slot is again talking nonsense but it might be the most ridiculous nonsense he's ever claimed. Liverpool not tracking their runners and forgetting to defend was exactly the story of the whole game. It's what decided it. And ultimately, his job as a coach is to prepare his players to be fully concentrated and equipped to deal with this kind of pressure for 90 minutes.

The fact that he's been unable to do this is all on Slot and no one else.

The fact that he tries to make excuses, and overlooks the underlying issue pointed out by the journalist is the most ridiculous attempt yet to deny the truth - he's completely incompetent at his job.