Salah and Isak will click, insists Slot after Liverpool slip to third defeat

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If the result would have been better today with a draw or a win then we would have had a great start to the season if you take into account everything that happened in the summer in Liverpool.”Slot, who had to rejig his defence after Ibrahima Konaté went off with a thigh injury in the second half, defended Salah’s wayward finishing.“What I like is that we brought him many times in the position he would like to be in,” the Dutchman said. “And I would like him to be in because he’s shown in his career and since I’m here that in those positions he can score goals.

He had many opportunities to do what he’s done so often. He’s a human being and it’s not like every chance he gets is always a goal.

We feel sometimes it is because of what he’s done last season.”Liverpool host Manchester United after the international break and Slot believes that better finishing would have stopped his side from losing to Chelsea and Crystal Palace. “In both games we’ve created more chances than the team we have faced but the truth is that we have only scored once in both games and our opponent has scored twice,” he said.Chelsea led through Moisés Caicedo’s early goal and it seemed they would have to settle for a point when Cody Gakpo equalised.