Regis Le Bris claims Sunderland players were ‘surprised’ by Liverpool tactic after Anfield draw

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The draw leaves Liverpool eighth in the Premier League and Slot will now face further questions over his side’s lack of cutting edge at Anfield. ‘We had this opportunity to score the second goal but it’s a good result for both teams,’ Le Bris said. Get your football fix Punchy analysis, transfer talk and more from Metro's football experts sent straight to your inbox – sign up, it's an open goal. ‘We started well, the first half was interesting with and without the ball.

Probably we didn’t believe enough that it was possible to score and we did it in the beginning of the second half. Liverpool looked unconvincing once again in their 1-1 draw with Sunderland (Getty) ‘I think we were even a bit surprised to have time and space to build up the play and probably they didn’t expect to be at that level. ‘We spoke about this final third and the way it was possible to disturb their back line.

We expected Salah as well to come on the pitch and to change a bit the dynamics, so we are prepared.’ Arne Slot, meanwhile, believes Liverpool have given opponents confidence to attack at Anfield due to their poor run of form this season. Not only think, because that has been shown this season. ‘And even in the games we’ve won, they also fuelled the confidence for other teams like, ‘hmm, something is possible’ because the wins we had at the beginning of the season weren’t easy ones as well. ‘I don’t completely agree with you that they grew into the game because I think throughout the whole second half there was only one team that had the ball and only one team that was playing on one half.