Liverpool news: Arne Slot's one sack condition as boss responds to Anfield boos
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Liverpool were held to a 1-1 draw at home by Tottenham on Sunday, with Arne Slot's side now slumped in fifth place after being booed off at Anfield. A 90th-minute leveller from ex-Everton forward Richarlison negated Dominik Szoboszlai's early free-kick at Anfield.Slot now approaches Wednesday's vital Champions League return fixture at home to Galatasaray, trailing 1-0 from the opening leg, aware his side must prevail to rescue their campaign and possibly his position.Here's all the latest developments from Anfield...The Liverpool head coach has addressed the jeers from home fans at the final whistle on Sunday.He said: "I think it's understandable for fans to be frustrated because it happened already so many times that they've seen the home team not picking up the points that they're expecting to, us conceding goals in the last minute."Now it's up to us to bring that frustration to Wednesday and come up with a big performance.
Because that we are all frustrated, that's completely clear."And it's now up to me and the players to take that frustration into Wednesday evening and show the fans the performance and the results they deserve, because they've been supportive throughout the whole season to us. There has to be s*** going on behind the scenes that we have no clue about, cos this is blasphemy."Regarding the match, Slot said: "In the large parts of the game that we were the better team, I think that is a moment where you have to score the second.
We also picked up a lot of those second balls where we were able to counter attack them."But from all these counter-attacks - all these four versus three, three versus two - all these moments that I felt with the quality players we have that we should be able to either get a bigger chance or when we have it, to score it, we didn't and then in the last minute we conceded the equaliser and then there's not a lot of time left to makeup for it."Slot sack latestFormer Arsenal star Paul Merson suggests Slot could be facing the sack if he fails to secure Champions League qualification.Speaking on Sky Sports, Merson claimed: "If he [Slot] won the FA Cup, but didn't finish in Champions League positions it wouldn't make any difference at all. Read our Privacy Policy"They've just been off it this year, it's been weird really, and it is hard when you've won the league like they have.