Arne Slot makes 'lucky' admission as Liverpool boss agrees with Alexis Mac Allister

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And even when Mac Allister saw a goal ruled out after he charged down an Ola Aina clearance, the Argentine still had time to fire in a shot from a similar range a few minutes later."I've seen much more consistency recently, not only in Macca's performance but in the team performance and many individual performances," Slot said in his post-match press conference.READ MORE: Vitor Pereira makes 'unfair' Liverpool claim after Nottingham Forest heartbreak - 'Not enough'READ MORE: Liverpool player ratings, winners and losers vs Nottingham Forest as Alexis Mac Allister saves day"But I think it's always nice for a player to score, especially if it's in extra time of extra time. So, we needed this goal, we needed that win to be on the right side of things once in a while."We've been so, so unlucky this season and today for the first time, at least it felt to me for the first time, we've been a bit lucky."My emotions were emotions of happiness and relief.

This is probably the first time I have to do a different post-match press conference than I did throughout all these other games, because today we did not play a good game.Arne Slot and Alexis Mac Allister after Liverpool beat Nottingham Forest.(Image: Carl Recine/Getty Images)"The performance, especially in the first half, was not as we've had so many times this season. But we've been on the wrong side of the score after a good performance far too many times."Today, I think we got more than we deserved.

"That is football," he said.Slot, meanwhile, told his players at half-time that their performance in the first 45 minutes was the worst they had played all season so far, and there have been some real lows."We defended our box really well and that was the reason that we were still on 0-0," Slot continued.Get LFC's 2025/26 season home and away kitsThis article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on any sales we generate from it. We had to defend a lot of set-pieces throughout the whole game but especially in the first half."So if we could bring back that mentality to the whole pitch, combined [with] doing a few things better on the ball and maybe not lose every ball you touch, because that was almost what happened, then you know that these players can do better."I tried to give them a bit of energy to say, 'They've played Thursday, a difficult away game, maybe they run out of energy and we for sure cannot have run out of energy yet, so maybe that can balance the game more or get the game in our advantage.'"And I pointed out our second half against Manchester City as well, after a first half that's maybe not of the standards we would like to [have], we are able to play a much better second half."