Liverpool’s alarming collapse took another ugly turn as PSV stormed into Anfield and handed Arne Slot a humiliating 4-1 Champions League beating that left home fans booing their own team.

PSV had stunned Liverpool on the final day of last season’s league phase, but this time the Dutch champions arrived with zero fear, and left their hosts looking like a club in freefall, now stuck in 12th place with back-to-back embarrassments.

The disaster began early. Virgil van Dijk, once the wall of Anfield, gifted PSV a penalty with a bizarre handball, allowing Ivan Perisic to bury the opener just six minutes in.

Dominik Szoboszlai briefly revived hope with a rebound goal that marked Liverpool’s 500th in the Champions League, but the team’s increasingly familiar defensive implosion was waiting just around the corner.

Van Dijk hit the bar as Liverpool chased a comeback, but once the second half started, the Reds completely capitulated.

Mauro Junior walked through the left flank untouched before setting up Guus Til for his first Champions League goal, a strike that exposed Liverpool’s total lack of organisation.

Konaté then added his own entry to Liverpool’s blooper reel, allowing PSV to double the lead after Ricardo Pepi hit the post and Couhaib Driouech pounced on the rebound.

Anfield emptied early after Driouech sealed a famous PSV rout with a low finish in stoppage time, while jeers rained down on Slot and his floundering squad.

Liverpool’s collapse is staggering: nine defeats in 12 matches, with three consecutive games conceding three goals, their worst defensive stretch since 1992.

Despite generating 27 shots, nine on target, and 2.66 expected goals, Liverpool’s finishing vanished, and their defence once again fell apart under the slightest pressure.

Slot now finds himself under fire, having won only once in his last nine clashes with PSV, the club that has beaten him more than any other in his career. Pressure is turning into a crisis.