Arne Slot slams Liverpool players after Man City defeat and demands change for PSG clash

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That is something we definitely have to do better on Wednesday.”Virgil van Dijk fouled Nico O’Reilly for the penalty, with Liverpool guilty of giving the ball away at their own throw-in to spark the second and third goals.Slot lamented Liverpool’s lack of game management before the interval, and said: “After the 1-0 were still in the game, then twice we conceded from our throw-in. I see the same pattern but that’s not a pattern over 90 minutes but how we concede goals.“Then you sometimes need to understand if you are 1-0 down you have to do everything right to go in 1-0 down at half-time.

Sometimes it is about maybe trying to score the 1-1, in others it is about making sure you don’t concede.“Those 20 minutes the way we defended when we conceded the four goals is absolutely not good enough.”Slot added: “It wasn’t as if it was chance after chance after chance. If it is, then you think maybe we should change our gameplan or tactics, but it is about understanding the importance of a moment, that you need to be ruthless in those moments even if things go against you or mentally you find it a bit hard when again you are 1-0 down after 35 minutes when you feel you are at least equal.“This has happened many times to us.

It is almost impossible to get a result if you face teams of this quality if you let a runner go or don’t block a cross.”The away end of 7,600 Liverpool fans began to empty midway through the second half, and Slot said: “If we don’t want them to leave early we have to perform better. We need to play like we did for the first 35 minutes but in moments of defending we need to be much more ruthless than we were today."Up to 70% off Liverpool kits and merchThis article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on any sales we generate from it.