Getting Liverpool up to speed will be a challenge, says Slot after losing his fourth consecutive game against Man United.
Slot concedes Liverpool face challenge getting back after Manchester United’s Anfield win.
Arne Slot stated that he will have a difficult task lifting Liverpool after Manchester United defeated the struggling Premier League champions for the fourth time in a row at Anfield for the first time in almost nine years.
As Ruben Amorim celebrated the first consecutive league victories of his United reign, the Liverpool head coach attributed their most recent defeat on wastefulness in front of goal and more set-piece errors from his club.
Slot argued that Liverpool shouldn’t have lost a game where they produced so many obvious opportunities. In the 87th minute, Cody Gakpo squandered a gilt-edged chance to head home a second equaliser and hit the woodwork three times. However, after losing to Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Galatasaray, and now United, the Dutch coach acknowledged he has a task ahead of him to put an end to Liverpool’s destructive streak.
“As a manager you constantly face challenges,” said Slot. “When you start and you need to win games, when you go to a bigger club, when you are the successor of Jürgen Klopp and people are saying: ‘This is the biggest challenge you have ever faced.’ Now we have lost four times in a row and that is also a challenge. The life of a football manager is also an ongoing challenge.
“But do we lose confidence? I can not see that yet because every game we’ve lost we were able to create in the second half an unbelievable amount of chances. If we can keep producing what we are doing and maybe do a few things a little bit better, then there is every reason to expect that we will win football games again. Of course there is also the part that, apart from the two goals we conceded, we conceded maybe two or three more chances. This is constantly the struggle we have when we are 1-0 down, then you need to take a bit more of a risk.”
Slot believed that because Alexis Mac Allister had suffered a head injury, referee Michael Oliver ought to have halted play prior to Bryan Mbeumo’s 62-second opening.
“The main thing I should do now is not complain at these kind of things. We should have done much better after Macca was on the floor but the health care of the players is important and if a player needs four stitches you would hope everyone understands he needed treatment. But we could have done better and that is not the reason we lost. The reason is we missed far too many chances to win a game of football.”