The Premier League champions suffered their ninth loss in 12 games with Wednesday's harrowing 4-1 defeat to PSV at Anfield in the Champions League, their poorest run of results since 1954. Liverpool have also lost three consecutive games by a margin of three-plus goals for the first time since December 1953 and head to West Ham on Sunday, live on Sky Sports, with pressure mounting on the manager. But reports suggest Liverpool's hierarchy plan to stick with Slot after he led the club to the Premier League title in his first season in charge. After nine defeats in 12, where is it going wrong for Liverpool?Liverpool 1-4 PSV Eindhoven - report & analysis Asked if Slot had spoken to his bosses at Liverpool about his future, he replied: "We've had the same conversations we've had since I am here. We fight on. We will try to improve. "You try to find the answers of what is needed to win a game of football but in the end it is about doing what this club is about. We have to keep fighting, fight together. "But it would also be nice if we rewarded ourselves in the moments we play well. People are focused correctly on the parts where we don't play well. "Every small mistake immediately leads to us conceding a goal and this is a very bad cocktail to have." Got Sky? Watch Premier League games LIVE on your phone📱Not got Sky? Get Sky Sports or stream with no contract on NOW📺 Much of the scrutiny on Liverpool's players has been on Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk's declining form with both below their best this season. Van Dijk's fellow centre-back Ibrahima Konate has hardly been helping his defensive partner either with some very shaky performances. Slot admitted some of his fringe players like Joe Gomez and Wataru Endo could come into his thinking on Sunday when they travel to West Ham. He said: "They train with us every single day and they can prove themselves in those moments. It is always that balance of if you don't change, people think you should change more. There was a period of this season where we lost and I made a couple changes and people complained. "I consider it, but I cannot tell you the end product of that consideration for Sunday...yet." Alisson expected to return, Wirtz may train on Saturday Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson is expected to return against West Ham on Sunday. Alisson, who started against Nottingham Forest on Saturday after nearly two months out injured, was a late withdrawal from Wednesday's game against PSV due to illness. Slot said Alisson trained with his team-mates on Thursday and is set to be back in goal for the trip to West Ham in the Premier League. Hugo Ekitike was forced off with an injury in the defeat to PSV and, although Slot says it is not expected to be a big issue, the forward is not certain to be fit for Sunday's game. Slot added that Florian Wirtz could return to training on Saturday after missing the last two games through injury ahead of his final day of rehab on Friday. Frank backs 'unbelievable' Slot to come good Tottenham boss Thomas Frank thinks Slot will "1,000 per cent" get Liverpool out of their slump in form. He said: "Arne is clearly an unbelievable coach, what he did with Feyenoord and how he stepped into Liverpool - incredible. "He will 1,000 per cent find a way out of that. "I don't know him personally, but he will stay calm, him and his coaching staff will find a solution and they will go again."

Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri lost their respective second and fourth-place finishes last Sunday when their cars were excluded from the results in the hours after the race for excessive skid-block wear. While Norris retains a healthy title lead with two races left, Red Bull rival Max Verstappen has closed to within 24 points of him, with the Dutchman moving onto the same points total as Piastri. Qatar GP: UK schedule and how to watch on Sky SportsF1 2025 schedule | F1 championship standingsNot got Sky? Get Sky Sports or stream with no contract on NOW 📺Choose the sports notifications you want! 🔔 In a Q&A released by the team on Thursday, McLaren team principal Andrea Stella said that their cars had suffered from an "unexpected occurrence of extensive porpoising" including "large vertical oscillations" during the 50-lap Grand Prix. Stella said the issues were "exacerbated by the conditions in which the car operated during the race and that attempts to mitigate this by getting the drivers to 'lift and coast' at the end of straights actually proved "counterproductive" in some areas of the street track. "The conditions we experienced last weekend and which led to the onset of porpoising and excess of grounding, compared to what was expected, are very specific to the operating window of the car in Vegas and the circuit characteristics. "We have a well-established and consolidated way of setting up the car and we are confident that this will lead us to an optimal plan for the coming races, starting from the Lusail International Circuit. "Nevertheless, we learn from every lesson and the one in Las Vegas has been able to provide some useful information about the operating window of the car and the porpoising regime." 'You can almost say we didn't take enough risk' - Drivers on DSQs Teams generally try to run their cars as low to the ground as possible for downforce gain, although on safety grounds must satisfy the regulation that states the skid blocks on the underside plank must not wear below 9mm. However, while it had been assumed since Sunday that a push for performance may have led McLaren to miscalculate their set-ups in Las Vegas and therefore fall foul of the rules, the team have denied this was the case. Stella said: "What happened in Vegas was due to an anomaly in the behaviour of the car, rather than it being the outcome of an excessive or unreasonable chase of performance." Speaking later on Thursday in their media engagements in Qatar ahead of this weekend's Sprint weekend, Norris and Piastri both suggested that things were not as straightforward as had been widely assumed. Norris said "it wasn't because we were just running low. Sometimes it can be the opposite", before adding: "In some ways, you can almost say we didn't take enough risk. "It's not as simple as just looking at it and saying, 'ah, they did that and that's why they are quick.' In fact, we were slower because of the issues that we had, not quicker. "I'm almost more excited to just get it better for this weekend because we'll have more performance." Norris, who with a 24-point championship lead does still have his first chance to wrap up his maiden F1 title in Sunday's grand prix, added: "At every team, when you're in Formula 1 fighting for race wins, you always have to push things to the limit. "That's not meaning that's exactly what we did in Las Vegas, because it's a lot more complicated. We still want to win these last few races, we still need to push everything to the limit as you always do, because Red Bull are just as quick. If we don't put things in the right condition, like in Brazil, they'll be quicker than us and they'll win." Piastri also said that, after a lack of practice time after red flags in last Friday's second session, McLaren had actually "played it safe" with the MCL39's ride height. "You try to get the most out of the ride height everywhere you can," said Piastri. "It's pretty much the main way you gain performance in these cars - getting them in the right window, Vegas especially. "A lot of long straights and slow corners means you've got quite a big difference in ride heights between the different speed ranges, so it is important in Vegas. But we had no concerns of anything. "We obviously didn't get that much practice in. It wasn't the easiest to get a read, but obviously, that's the same for everybody. What we didn't expect was how much porpoising we had in the race. "It wasn't like we took extra risk, we actually played it safe given we hadn't had that much practice but there was just things that happened that we didn't expect." 'It sucks, but that's life' - Norris sanguine over lost points Having finished second to Verstappen but two places ahead of Piastri last Sunday, Norris briefly held a championship lead of 30 points over his team-mate and 42 points over the Dutchman. McLaren's disqualifications dropped the Briton's advantage back down to 24 points over both rivals. However, Norris said there was no point getting too upset about the situation and that he was focused on returning to winning ways over the final two races as he bids to close out his maiden F1 title. "I was quite ok, to be honest," he said. "It doesn't help [to be angry]. From what I had to do in the race there was already some expectation that it might happen, so it wasn't a shock, it wasn't a surprise. "We knew we were having a lot more issues than we ever expected during the race and that led already to the expectation that some things might not be as we expect. "Maybe it would have hurt more if it won the race, but we didn't, so it doesn't change anything, there's no point being too sad about it. "Of course, everyone in the team was a bit gutted about the result because there's a lot of effort that goes into it. It's the same for everyone but 0.1mm or whatever is like a piece of paper. So it was frustrating, but I was quite ok. "Just excited to go again this weekend, it doesn't change anything. I want to try and win in Qatar, I want to try and win in Abu Dhabi. "It sucks, but that's life sometimes." Sky Sports F1's Qatar GP schedule Thursday November 273pm: Drivers' Press Conference6pm: Paddock Uncut Friday November 2811.05am: F2 Practice1pm: Qatar GP Practice (session starts at 1.30pm)*3.30pm: Team Bosses' Press Conference4.05pm: F2 Qualifying*4.50pm: Qatar GP Sprint Qualifying (session starts at 5.30pm)* Saturday November 291pm: Qatar GP Sprint build-up*2pm: QATAR GP SPRINT*3.30pm: Ted's Sprint Notebook*4.15pm: F2 Sprint5.15pm: Qatar GP Qualifying build-up6pm: QATAR GP QUALIFYING8pm: Ted's Qualifying Notebook Sunday November 3011.55am: F2 Feature2.30pm: Grand Prix Sunday: Qatar GP build-up4pm: THE QATAR GRAND PRIX6pm: Chequered Flag: Qatar GP reaction7pm: Ted's Notebook *also on Sky Sports Main Event Formula 1's season-ending triple header continues with the Qatar Grand Prix Sprint weekend live on Sky Sports F1 from Friday. Stream Sky Sports with NOW - no contract, cancel anytime

She starred at Paris 2024 when she became the first-ever medalist for the Refugee Olympic Team. But earlier this year an issue with a medical forced her to withdraw on the eve of her professional debut. This week she has been supporting a charity 'box-a-thon' in which GB coaches, supported by various boxers, did 50 rounds of bagwork to raise money for Sheffield Mind, which provides mental health support and wellbeing services across the city, and Roundabout, which works to prevent youth homelessness in South Yorkshire. Lauren Price's Principality Stadium dream - 'It's possible. I believe!'NHS facility opens boxing gym for first time in UKNot got Sky? Get Sky Sports or stream with no contract on NOW "I will not be able to handle 50 rounds! Three minutes they're doing and they're doing it at a good pace too," Ngamba told Sky Sports. "There's loads of people out there struggling mentally and also people who don't have shelter over their heads. "We're putting the sweat into how they feel for people who are struggling out there." The charity drive is for a cause close to Ngamba's heart. It's all too tempting for a boxer to refuse to admit to pain, whether it be physical or mental. But Ngamba says: "Mental health is very, very important. "Boxers, we are human at the end of the day," she continued. "I've struggled with mental health. Mental health is a normal thing, I always say it's never going to disappear but I think it's how you go about [it], whether you just lock it all in and don't talk about it and you don't express the way you feel and then one day out of the blue, it explodes. "A lot of people struggle with mental health." High-profile athletes, especially boxers, speaking out about mental health issues does have an impact. "Key role-models, and superstars, the more of them talk about it, the more people pay attention to it, the more normal people like us [can think] you know what if these people struggle with their mental health that means it's okay for us to speak about it," Ngamba reflected. "I used to be the type of person who didn't talk about it. The more you talk about it, the more you feel free and the more it's like a massive weight taken off your shoulders. It's not weakness, it's not something that should be embarrassing, I see it just as a human thing." That wasn't always easy for Ngamba. "I'm not going to speak for every boxer. For myself it is something hard, especially as boxing is a very intense and hard sport. It's very physical. You don't really want to talk about your mental health and how you're feeling etc, you just want to get on with it. And also it's the old mindset, the old way," she explained. "From a young age I always thought just get on with it and as you get a bit older, you get a bit more expressive and the more you learn about just life in general. Role-models in boxing talk about their mental health, they talk about issues that they've gone through, losses and injuries. "You feel anxious, you feel scared, it's something that a lot of boxers struggle with." Attitudes though, she senses, are shifting in the sport. "I think more boxers are opening up a bit. The new generation definitely," Ngamba said. "The coaches too are actually taking their time to speak to the boxers, trying to understand them in boxing and outside boxing. "I was afraid once to talk about it, in a way of I would only talk to my family about it but I would never bring it up to coaches because you don't want to be the attention seeker. "You think: 'I don't want to become the attention seeker, that just shows I'm going to be weak, I'm just complaining for no reason, just get on with it.' "It's very much a human thing. That's what makes you human. You become at peace with yourself and everything just feels right, everything starts clicking, once you talk about your emotions, express it."

Welcome to The Radar, a Sky Sports column in which Nick Wright uses a blend of data and opinion to shed light on need-to-know stories from up and down the Premier League. This week: 🔴 Rice's attacking evolution at Arsenal🔥 Caicedo's ball-winning and press resistance🔍 A player to watch this weekend Caicedo or Rice? An epic midfield battle Sunday's meeting between Chelsea and Arsenal, live on Sky Sports, pits the Premier League's top two against each other. It is also battle between its two best midfielders. Moises Caicedo versus Declan Rice is not so much a subplot as a box-office attraction in itself. Got Sky? Watch Premier League games LIVE on your phone📱No? Get Sky Sports or stream with no contract on NOW 📺 Events in midweek suggested the pair might in fact be the best in Europe, never mind the Premier League. Twenty-four hours after Caicedo dominated Barcelona's midfield at Stamford Bridge, Declan Rice did something similar to Bayern Munich's at the Emirates Stadium. Two Champions League heavyweights overpowered. Those midweek performances added yet another parallel between two players whose fates have been intertwined since they joined their respective clubs a month apart in 2023 for fees of over £100m. It is fair to say the expense has been justified in both cases. In another life, they might even be turning out on the opposite sides on Sunday. Caicedo was once a transfer target for Arsenal. Rice came through Chelsea's academy before his move to West Ham. But there are differences between them too, most notably in terms of their positions. "He's a full-blown No 6 while I'm more of a box-to-box No 8," Rice said to Sky Sports' Jamie Carragher on Wednesday. Rice's role continues to evolve in ways few anticipated when he joined Arsenal. Having transitioned from No 6 to left-sided No 8 across his first two seasons, he now operates somewhere between the two, or, to put it more accurately, everywhere between the two, as part of a midfield pivot with Martin Zubimendi. "He is becoming a total player," said Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta earlier this month. "A total player has to do as many things as possible and he has the capacity to do that." The game against Bayern Munich, in which he was named man of the match, was just the latest example of that completeness. Rice was everywhere, at times bursting beyond Bayern's last line; at others tracking back to win challenges, one of which, on former Spurs striker Harry Kane late in the game, was celebrated like a goal. His set-piece delivery has been a revelation. Only a fortnight ago he was named among the Puskas award nominees for the second of his spectacular free-kicks against Real Madrid in April. But his attacking threat is not limited to dead-ball situations. Pushing him further forward has brought Arsenal rich rewards. His total of 31 goals Premier League goals and assists across the last three seasons is roughly three times as high as Caicedo's. It is also the fourth-most for Arsenal, behind only Bukayo Saka, Leandro Trossard and Kai Havertz in the same time-frame. He has become an invaluable attacking weapon. Caicedo, of course, operates further away from goal than Rice. But he is more than capable of contributing offensively too. With three Premier League goals this season, including stunning strikes from distance against Liverpool and Brentford, he has already beaten his total for the previous two campaigns combined. Like Rice, he offers the potential for flexibility. Before becoming established as Brighton's No 6 under Roberto De Zerbi, he was used as a No 8 by Graham Potter. Back at his boyhood club Independiente del Valle in Ecuador, the latter is actually seen as his best role. "Moises had a bigger impact in the game, and helped the team more, as a No 8, because he had the ability to score, the last pass, he was able to get into the box, and he was very aggressive in the first pressure," the club's former head coach, Miguel Angel Ramirez, said in conversation with Sky Sports. Those attributes may open up possibilities similar to those exploited by Arsenal with Rice in the future. But right now he is serving Enzo Maresca as Chelsea's No 6, where his ball-winning has few rivals. Caicedo marries outstanding physicality with a rare level of tactical awareness, ensuring he is almost always well-positioned to smother opposition attacks and snuff out counters. He has made the most interceptions in the Premier League this season. He also ranks highly for tackles and possessions won in the middle third. He plays an important role in constructing Chelsea's attacks as well as spoiling those of the opposition. His display against Barcelona, when he completed 69 of his 73 passes, giving him a success rate of 94.5 per cent, highlighted his composure and quality on the ball. Caicedo is not as expansive as Rice in his passing. Rice makes nearly twice as many long passes on average. But the Ecuador international comes out on top, as the best in the Premier League, when it comes to retaining possession under pressure, although that is yet another area in which both players excel, even in different positions. Rice may well be the player applying the pressure on Caicedo at Stamford Bridge on Sunday, and vice-versa, as two players seemingly at the absolute peak of their powers vie for superiority in a midfield battle which might ultimately decide the outcome of the game. Is Anderson the next £100m midfielder? There is another Premier League midfielder who might soon be rivalling Caicedo and Rice in Nottingham Forest's Elliot Anderson. The 23-year-old, a £35m signing from Newcastle last year, is already being billed as a potential £100m player and it is easy to see why. Anderson has excelled even in the context of a fraught season for Forest, who sit a point above the relegation zone having changed their manager twice. They would be worse off without him. Anderson, who has also established himself at international level with England this season, is doing all the things an elite central midfielder should do, in possession and out of it, and showing the kind of profile the top clubs are willing to spend big on. Player Radar: Who else to keep an eye on Morgan Rogers is dominating the discourse around Aston Villa but don't overlook the underrated importance of Boubacar Kamara. Unai Emery's side have a win rate of 64 per cent with him starting this season compared to 33 per cent without him. Expect him to be quietly crucial, again, when they face Wolves on Sunday. Live Radar: What's on Sky this weekend? Saturday brings a double-header, as Everton face Newcastle at 5.30pm before Tottenham's meeting with Fulham at 8pm. Watch live on Sky Sports Premier League and Main Event from 5pm. It's a multi-view extravaganza on Sunday, with Aston Villa vs Wolves, Nottingham Forest vs Brighton and West Ham vs Liverpool to be shown on Sky Sports at 2.05pm. Then it's the big one: Chelsea's meeting with Arsenal is available to watch on Sky Sports Premier League and Main Event from 4pm ahead of the 4.30pm kick-off. Read the last Radar column The Radar household was struck by illness last week and the column was an unfortunate casualty. The last one, published before the international break, asked whether Liverpool could stop Erling Haaland. Narrator's voice: they could not stop Erling Haaland.

That's the view of South American football expert Tim Vickery after the Chelsea 18-year-old starred and scored a brilliant goal in the 3-0 Champions League win over Barcelona on Tuesday night. How Estevao adapted to Chelsea - and Thiago Silva's key role in his move Estevao has quickly become a fan favourite at Stamford Bridge and showed a glimpse of his huge potential with a fine performance on the big stage. "He's regarded as the best, brightest, most talented player to come out of Brazil since Neymar, with one or two advantages," Vickery told Sky Sports News, referencing the former Barcelona, PSG and Brazil ace. "He seems more stable than Neymar and so far has less baggage around him. The sky is the limit." Estevao and Barcelona's Lamine Yamal have been touted as the next Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo this past week and Vickery says Estevao - who was nicknamed Messinho (Little Messi) in his youth - seems unfazed by the hype around him. "Comparisons with the top drawer - they put burden of pressure on him but he seems to respond exceptionally well to pressure," said Vickery. Got Sky? Watch Premier League games LIVE on your phone📱Not got Sky? Get Sky Sports or stream with no contract on NOW📺 "You could see right from his first game you're dealing with a very, very special talent. A talent which, since Carlo Ancelotti took over as Brazil coach, is of crucial importance to the national team. His first start was Ancelotti's first game and he's banged in five goals between September and November. He's a crucial part of Brazil's quest to win the World Cup next year." Estevao's journey is unusual in that he has come straight from Brazil to the Premier League, completing a £29.1m move from Palmeiras to Chelsea this summer. He has signed a contract until 2032 with the London club when many rising stars from his country prefer a switch to Spanish giants Real Madrid or Barcelona. Vickery believes Estevao is now a priceless asset for Chelsea. "We've got the first genuine Brazil superstar to have chosen the Premier League," he said. "Usually they want Real Madrid or Barcelona. Estevao has come to Chelsea. "He was on everyone's wish list and he did choose Chelsea. A few months ago, his agent said what tipped the balance in Chelsea's favour was they were the club most open to seeing him as a No 10, not a player stuck on the wing, cutting in. Obviously, that's a project for the long term. That's one of the reasons why Chelsea won the race. "He's already proved his worth. He's already put himself in that space where almost no one can afford him. Chelsea have got him on a long contract. One of the most exciting talents in the global game. I'm not sure all the money in the world could buy him at the moment." 'There are more Estevaos coming to Chelsea' Sky Sports News' Kaveh Solhekol: "Estevao is a player who is up there with the best young players to come out of South America. Real Madrid were looking at him, Barcelona were looking closely as well as clubs like Arsenal. "But it was Chelsea who got him for initial £29m, and could stay at Palmeiras for an extra season. "He's been developed really well by Enzo Maresca, who has been very careful with how much he has played. The reason he chose Chelsea, according to his agent, as they were the one club who said: 'In the future we see him as a No 10 and can play through the middle'. "That's where he wants to play, where other clubs saw him as a development prospect or someone out wide. "The good news for Chelsea fans is: there are more Estevaos on the way. "Chelsea's recruitment policy is not to sign ready-made players for £200m - but to buy the best young players. "There is Geo Quenda, who signed from Sporting CP for £44m and is joining in the summer of 2026. He had a release clause of £88m so Chelsea got him for half his release clause. "Some in Portugal say he's the next Cristiano Ronaldo - I'm not sure about that, a lot of young Portuguese players get compared to him. "A couple of weeks ago they agreed a deal to sign Deinner Ordonez, a young Ecuadorian centre-back who will join in 2028. They have other signings set for 2026 and 2027, that's their focus. "That's why they have so many people working in their recruitment department. They get a lot of criticism for having so many sporting directors, but it seems to be working as they sign a lot of players like Estevao."