Arne Slot reveals Liverpool dressing room reaction to Rio Ngumoha after dream debut goal

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Liverpool head coach Arne Slot says someone in the away locker room at St James' Park admitted that they would have taken a touch had the chance that Rio Ngumoha scored fallen to them.

From a low Mohamed Salah cross, Dominik Szoboszlai feigned to shoot but let the ball run through to Ngumoha at the back post.

With some speed on the pass, Ngumoha didn't think twice but instinctively hit a shot first time into the corner.



We didn't play well enough on the ball.

It felt familiar to me; I think I have experienced a game like this once before since I'm here in England — that was Everton away last season.

"Where so many things happened, where it was complete chaos, where the fans were so loud and so there for the home team and our fans tried to help us as much as they could.

"It was an unbelievable atmosphere and for us to stay strong in that atmosphere for such a long time is worth more to me than when we play every single time out from the back and we have a four or five-nil win.



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"These wins, these mean more to me than when we play good football because tonight had, for me, nothing to do with tactics or good football.

"It was a great game to watch but not because of tactics or good football