When Liverpool striker Hugo Ekitike returns to face his former club Eintracht Frankfurt in the Champions League on Wednesday, he will find a side which bears little resemblance to the one he left in July.

Liverpool’s 2–1 defeat to Manchester United on Sunday afternoon condemned Arne Slot’s side to their fourth successive loss across all competitions, the club’s worst run of form since the dark days of Brendan Rodgers’s tenure more than a decade ago.

Arne Slot's Liverpool had a dreadful Sunday at Anfield as rivals Manchester United extended Liverpool's losing streak to four games following a 2-1 loss in Premier League action.

Eintracht Frankfurt and Liverpool have faced twice previously in Europe, with those meetings coming in the first round of the 1972-73 UEFA Cup. Liverpool progressed 2-0 on aggregate, after a 2-0 home win and a 0-0 draw in the reverse fixture in Germany.

Liverpool won the Premier League and followed it up with an all-time transfer spree. Now they're licking their wounds from four straight defeats. How did we get here?

It took Manchester United just 62 seconds to take the lead at Liverpool on Sunday and Bryan Mbeumo's goal came in controversial fashion. After a long ball forward looped into the air, Virgil van Dijk pushed Mbeumo out of the way but his elbow caught the back of the head of his teammate Alexis Mac Allister.

Liverpool lost to Manchester United on Sunday but there is a growing set of problems for Arne Slot to deal with