Slot questions Liverpool players' effort and spirit in Man City defeat

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Man City 4-0 Liverpool - reportAs it happened at the Etihad | Teams | StatsFA Cup quarter-finals | Download the Sky Sports app"I did not feel this until the moment they scored the 1-0 and I think after they scored, we were still in the game, but then twice they got through when we had a throw-in. That is something we definitely have to do better on Wednesday." Also See: Liverpool news and transfer latest Liverpool fixtures Stream the Premier League with no contract Download the Sky Sports App Image: Erling Haaland celebrates after scoring his second goal of the game against Liverpool Haaland netted again before the break followed by Antoine Semenyo adding a third five minutes after half-time before the striker sealed his hat-trick to inflict a 15th defeat on Liverpool, their most since 2015.The loss was compounded by Mo Salah having a penalty saved.'If you don't make it difficult to good players, it's immediately a goal'Slot defended against the accusation that his side are failing to do the basics but admitted there is a familiar pattern to the goals they concede.He said: "If you tell me from the 15 runs Man City is making, 15 times my players don't run, I disagree with you.

It's not the pattern of the game."Slot added: "And then you sometimes miss the lack of need to understand that if you're 1-0 down just before half-time, you have to do everything right to go from 1-0 down to half-time. Sometimes it's about maybe trying to score the 1-1, but in other moments, making sure you don't concede."Like I said, in those 20 minutes, the way we defended when we conceded the four goals is absolutely not good enough, and then I see exactly the same thing." Image: Mohamed Salah reacts after failing to score from the penalty spot against Manchester City Asked what he put that down to, Slot said: "It's a bit of everything.

Of course, if you look at how they outplayed it and the timing, the moment Haaland comes in, but I think we have to try to make it more difficult for them than we were doing, because they're already good players."If you don't make it difficult to good players, it's immediately a goal, and that's what we saw four times. So we have to make it more difficult for them in those moments when we have to defend than we were doing."When it's chance after chance after chance, you start to feel like maybe we should change our game plan or our tactics."But if it's moments, which it was, because I don't think they had many more chances than the goals they scored, then it's about understanding the importance of a moment."Understanding that you need to be ruthless in those moments, even if things go against you or you mentally find it a bit hard.Again, you're 1-0 down after 35 minutes where you felt you were at least equal to the other team.