Arne Slot admits tactics didn’t work: Man City “were so much better”

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Arne Slot made it known that it was “clear the wrong decision was made” over Liverpool’s ruled out equaliser, but accepted his tactics did not work against Man City. “I would first and foremost look to the game plan, of us and them, and not blame my players at all because in the second half, when we were doing better, you could see we were winning more duels, which did not result in a goal, but we did deserve one in the second half.” Despite Slot insisting his side won more duels in the second half, as per FotMob, it was 24-13 in City’s favour after they too won the first half 24-18. ‘Obvious and clear the wrong decision was made’ In Slot’s opinion, like many others, the decision to rule out the captain’s goal was “wrong,” but he rightly acknowledged it was not why his side lost the match.

“I think it’s obvious and clear that the wrong decision has been made, at least in my opinion,” Slot told Sky Sports when asked about Van Dijk’s non-goal. “It took the linesman 13 seconds, 13 seconds to raise his flag to say it’s offside, so there was clearly communication, but as I said, that could have influenced the game in a positive way for us because in the first half we were so poor.

“Because, again, it was obvious and clear that City was first half, by far the better team.” He later added: “It’s been a very good start of the week with a very bad end of the week. That’s what we know.