Liverpool are accustomed to hearing their fans singing about walking through a storm. Yet Arne Slot has scarcely experienced one throughout the smoothness of his start. If 18 wins in 21 games amounts to a storm, it is the sort many a manager would like to experience. Now he faces one; certainly of the meteorological variety, perhaps of the footballing kind.
Slot’s maiden Merseyside derby will come during Storm Darragh. There is the prospect, too, of Storm Dyche. Jurgen Klopp’s chances of a second Premier League title were finished at Goodison Park in April. Now, in a 19th-century ground’s final derby – barring an FA Cup tie – Slot’s prospects of a first could be dented, for the second time in a week.
