🚨REPORT :Latest Anfield change exposes Liverpool problem that even Paul Merson noticed

Liverpool hosted a new league record against Nottingham Forest at Anfield on Saturday afternoon.    I came full-time, but it really didn’t feel like it.

   With thousands of home fans already despairing of a late Reds comeback, the only real noise in the final moments was taken from an away side full of Forest fans watching their team win at the stadium for the first time in a long time.    than 55 years.

   Even before then, there was a sense that most of the 60,344 crowd didn’t quite believe a comeback was possible as Liverpool struggled after falling behind to a Callum Hudson-Odoi goal with 18 minutes remaining.

   It wasn’t like when Jurgen Klopp said he had “never felt so alone” as Anfield emptied towards the end of a 2-1 home defeat to Crystal Palace just weeks into his reign in 2015. But this  was perhaps a sign that Arne Ensure that the atmosphere does not always have the same brilliance as it once did.

   This is of course a problem across the Premier League as crowd demographics change.    However, it is noticeable that there has been a general decrease in stadium volume over the past 12 months.

   Indeed, rather than making things better, the eventual opening of the new Anfield Road stand, which raised capacity to record levels, exposed the problem.

   As always there are extenuating circumstances, the most obvious being the change in the dugout.    After Klopp announced his decision to leave in January, there was a growing longing and almost desperation among the audience for Liverpool to succeed and provide the outgoing boss with a silver lining.

   Sometimes it became counterproductive.    But Klopp’s emotional send-off in his final game in charge, and especially the chants that greeted the German in the closing stages, showed the power of the fans at full volume.

   But Klopp’s departure was always going to have consequences, the hangover growing more acute with the growing realization that one of Liverpool’s most famous managers was no longer at the club.

   Not that Reds fans expect Slot to be like Klopp.    We’d much rather see the new head coach steadfastly remain his own man.

   Despite an encouraging opening few weeks – and a 3-0 win at Manchester United always goes a long way towards winning over fans – fans are still adapting to a new manager and vice versa.    This is natural and inevitable and will take time.    A surprising defeat like last Saturday is a learning curve for both.

   The Kop tried a couple of times to rouse Liverpool’s players in the closing stages but they lacked conviction and soon gave way, engulfed by a muted response from much of the stadium.

   Some retraining will also be required.    If Slot remains true to his word, Liverpool will not play in the same enthusiastic style that saw him out of so many problems during Klopp’s era, when chaos provided the solution when all else failed.

   It may take some getting used to.    “I thought Liverpool were a bit boring,” former England striker Paul Merson told Sky Sports News after watching the game.    “I thought it was slow. When you see Klopp’s teams play, they break and it’s 100 miles an hour, they break so quickly.”

   The slot machine approach is more methodical, based on stakes rather than risks.    And because of this, it is not as lively as the preferred methods of its predecessor.

   Whether it fits the history of fortress Anfield and the undulating Kop may be open to question.    During their heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, Liverpool became synonymous with possession, but there’s a reason they’ve been able to pull off so many victories late on.    It is considered a Passion Play.    And even in a Premier League era where their 2020 triumph remains their only title, it’s no coincidence that the Reds still have more winners through injury than any other team.

   However, these are very early days for Sloto as he continues to adjust to his new surroundings.    Debate over the atmosphere at Anfield, however, had been raging long before the Dutchman’s arrival this summer.

   But given Liverpool’s temporary reliance on the famous ’12.