Arne Slot wants to see improvement from Liverpool players after late Atletico win

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Arne Slot has said he was impressed with Liverpool’s mentality in Wednesday’s 3-2 win over Atletico Madrid, but called on his side to play with greater urgency throughout games.

The Reds’ penchant for sealing matches courtesy of 90th-minute winners came to the fore once again at Anfield as Liverpool’s Champions League campaign got under way.

“If you want to beat a team like Atletico, you have to beat them with their weapon as well, and that is mentality,” he told TNT Sports after the game.

“I think that's what we showed again today, that we can beat them also by mentality.

But then again, we showed the mentality because I think in the 10 minutes that still had to be played, we were pushing, and in the end we scored.”

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But I think it's clear that if we feel urgency, then we're unbelievable.

“And now we have to make sure that we feel this urgency

Ninety minutes, don't even look at the score, just feel this urgency every second

But it wasn't a complete surprise to me that they [Atletico] scored [to make it] 2-1 after 45 minutes because I felt that they were coming a little bit more throughout the course of the first half.

“So many good moments