Yannick, there's always the fallback for UCAS Clearing/Adjustment day on 15th August 2019, but that does leaves university choices until quite late.
I applied to University of Cardiff a while ago for Engineering, at interview I mentioned that I was a bit weak in some mathematical areas "We'll teach you," they said " That's what we are here for" (I think I would have informally been given a few months maths booster) but I went to Essex instead.
I agree that L'pool is being a bit uppity.