‘Look into the details’: Arne Slot says new Liverpool full-backs not to blame for defensive lapses

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Arne Slot has said his new full-backs are not to blame for Liverpool’s defensive issues this season but his team must improve at set pieces given their increasing importance in the modern game.Liverpool have been vulnerable throughout an otherwise impressive start to the campaign and have shipped seven goals in six league games so far. But Slot insists the problem is collective, and identified Liverpool’s set-piece defending as in need of improvement after Crystal Palace scored from two when inflicting a first league defeat of the season on the champions on Saturday.Before Tuesday’s Champions League clash against Galatasaray in Istanbul, the Liverpool head coach said: “One of our strengths last season was keeping the other team away from our goal and normally that doesn’t start with your defenders.

Look into more details – we’ve conceded four goals from set pieces this season. We have to go back to that and we have to prove in the upcoming games and months that we don’t normally concede from set pieces.

I see teams in the Premier League that win games by set pieces and we lose games by set pieces.”Galatasaray scored 24 set-piece goals out of a total of 91 last season, although that figure includes penalties. I know Galatasaray are strong at set pieces but we have been a force at set pieces last season.