Arne Slot full of praise for Liverpool efforts after gritty win against Inter

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Arne Slot said Liverpool’s players gave everything he could have asked for after they put Mohamed Salah’s absence aside to inflict a first European home defeat on Inter in more than three years.The Liverpool head coach conceded Dominik Szoboszlai’s decisive 88th-minute penalty – awarded for a shirt pull by Alessandro Bastoni on the substitute Florian Wirtz – would probably not have been given in the Premier League. But following the difficulties caused by Salah’s incendiary interview at Leeds on Saturday, Slot was thrilled with the response of his team at San Siro.“It was all I could ask for,” said Slot.

“The fourth game in 10 days, I’m not sure you see that a lot in football, with only 14 outfield players available with Premier League or Champions League experience, after the blow we had conceding the 3-3 in Leeds, then to go into this stadium against such a strong Inter team – we couldn’t have asked for more.“We hardly gave away a chance. The first one came just before half-time after we had to accept a referee’s decision [to disallow an Ibrahima Konaté goal] that could have gone any way, but that’s been the story of our season.

We were close to scoring with Conor Bradley and Hugo Ekitiké, then we get a penalty that if that was a penalty we would have had 10 this season.”Dominik Szoboszlai leaps to celebrate his winning penalty against Inter. In the rich history of Liverpool they have had many nights like this but in the season we are having it should be about the midfield, Ibou Konaté, and all the ones who are here.skip past newsletter promotionafter newsletter promotion“Tonight should be about all the players who are here.”