What should really worry Arne Slot as FSG stance on Liverpool boss still clear

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But Slot skirted the edges of anger when talking about Manchester United's second goal in Sunday's 3-2 loss at Old Trafford.Reflecting on Benjamin Sesko's effort, which a VAR check could not prove conclusion evidence of handball, Slotsaid: "I don't think it's a surprise to anyone this season that if there's a VAR intervention or if there's something that could be left or could be right (50-50) then the decision goes against us."That has been the whole season every single time this season. I see a player of United off the pitch today and the referee stops the game when we try to play on."That has been our whole season.

But the second goal we didn't concede because of a handball, we conceded it because we lost the ball in a stupid position and we lost a few big moments afterwards in duels."We have to first look at ourselves, that is completely clear and obvious, but that decisions have gone every single game against us, that's also completely clear and obvious."When we played United the first time this season, I had one of my players needing five stitches on the floor (Mac Allister), and the referee didn't stop the game and we conceded."This is a complete pattern over the whole season, but there is also a pattern that we concede ridiculous goals when we are the better team, one or two are switching off and then we concede a goal."That we have more influence on, so I should focus much more on that than on these referee decisions that go against us. It's clear that it's the whole season the same."Those who maintain their belief that Slot is the right man to turn things around at Anfield this summer will listen to such impassioned breakdowns with a sympathetic ear and the head coach.Even to the more objective, he has a point when he references incidents like the Mac Allister head wound against United in October and the injury to Woodman, who was stricken on the floor when Palace made it 2-1 at Anfield recently.Both occasions could, on another day, have gone in Liverpool's favour, but reeling off a list of decisions you feel aggrieved about over the course of a full season is rarely advisable for any manager.Soundbites like that are more likely to project the air of a coach losing their grip on proceedings, particularly when the latest defeat means you have now suffered 18 across all competitions.

I know that it has been a tough season but I will always be there in good and lesser good days."But we have three games left and the realisation has to come from ourselves, as a group and as players, to make sure that we are in the Champions League because of the impact of it for the financial side for the club."But also because we want to be playing in it against the best teams in Europe. There will be a lot of work that has to be done going into next season."When I am back from the World Cup, I will go into it.