Slot salutes Liverpool character after yet another late show
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Arne Slot lauded Liverpool’s mentality after they scored yet another late winner to claim a 3-2 win over Atletico Madrid in the Champions League at Anfield.
The Premier League champions let slip a two-goal lead after efforts from Andy Robertson and Mo Salah were cancelled out by Marcos Llorente's double before Virgil van Dijk headed home in the second minute of added time.
Liverpool have already made a habit of scoring late winners this season, most recently beating Burnley 1-0 in the Premier League thanks to Salah's 95th-minute penalty.
"If you want to beat a team like Atletico, which is known and has an unbelievable mentality, you have to beat them with their own weapon as well and that is mentality," Slot told TNT Sports.
"I think that's what we showed again today, that we can beat them also by mentality.
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Slot: Positively surprised by Isak
Slot handed British record £125m signing Alexander Isak his first Liverpool appearance by including him in his starting line-up and was delighted with the Swede's contribution.
The Dutchman, who celebrated victory on his 47th birthday, said: "Particularly because I think in the 60 minutes he played, he seemed to be quite fit to me so it wasn't as if, after 10 minutes, he was already very tired.
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At Liverpool, a lot of people get called legends because they've won the league or the Champions League," Carragher told CBS.
But if you want to differentiate, and I call them giants of the club like Gerrard, Dalglish, Hansen, Barnes, Souness and Salah, the top seven or eight players at Liverpool, he is right in the middle of that.
"He's not at the bottom of the list I can assure you