Arne Slot mentioned he faces a problem to carry Liverpool after Manchester United triumphed at Anfield for the primary time in additional than 9 years to inflict a fourth successive defeat on the faltering Premier League champions.
The Liverpool head coach blamed wastefulness in entrance of aim and extra set-piece lapses from his workforce for his or her newest reverse, as Ruben Amorim savoured the primary back-to-back league wins of his United reign.
Harry Maguire, whose 84th-minute header secured victory, admitted it was “embarrassing” that United had taken 51 video games to realize that statistic underneath Amorim.
Slot claimed it shouldn't have been doable for Liverpool to lose a match through which they created so many clear probabilities. Cody Gakpo struck the woodwork 3 times and missed a gilt-edged alternative to go residence a second equaliser within the 87th minute. However having misplaced to Crystal Palace, Galatasaray, Chelsea and now United, the Dutch coach conceded he has a job on his fingers to finish Liverpool's damaging run.
“As a supervisor you continuously face challenges,” mentioned Slot. “Once you begin and you might want to win video games, whenever you go to an even bigger membership, if you find yourself the successor of Jürgen Klopp and individuals are saying: ‘That is the most important problem you will have ever confronted.' Now we now have misplaced 4 occasions in a row and that's additionally a problem. The lifetime of a soccer supervisor can be an ongoing problem.
“However will we lose confidence? I cannot see that but as a result of each recreation we've misplaced we had been in a position to create within the second half an unbelievable quantity of probabilities. If we are able to maintain producing what we're doing and possibly do just a few issues a bit bit higher, then there may be each purpose to count on that we'll win soccer video games once more. In fact there may be additionally the half that, aside from the 2 objectives we conceded, we conceded possibly two or three extra probabilities. That is continuously the battle we now have once we are 1-0 down, then you might want to take a bit extra of a danger.”
Slot felt the referee, Michael Oliver, ought to have stopped play earlier than Bryan Mbeumo's 62-second opener due to a head damage sustained by Alexis Mac Allister. The Liverpool midfielder required 4 stitches in a reduce. However the head coach mentioned: “The primary factor I ought to do now shouldn't be complain at these form of issues. We must always have performed significantly better after Macca was on the ground however the well being care of the gamers is necessary and if a participant wants 4 stitches you'll hope everybody understands he wanted remedy. However we might have performed higher and that isn't the rationale we misplaced. The reason being we missed far too many probabilities to win a recreation of soccer.”
Amorim mentioned United's spirit and composure was key to victory at Anfield, notably after Gakpo levelled for Liverpool late on, however insisted the best results of his turbulent reign wouldn't change any targets for the season.
The United head coach mentioned: “I need you guys [the media] to proceed with the narrative that you've so I can't enhance the aim. What we have to do is attempt to win three video games in a row now and overlook about high 4 or high six. We already mentioned we need to go to Europe. This doesn't change nothing. We're the identical workforce we had been 90 minutes in the past.”
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Maguire, nonetheless, described the win as “huge” for United as they lastly secured two consecutive Premier League wins underneath the Portuguese coach. United's match-winner mentioned: “It's embarrassing actually. It's not a stat that we should always even be talking about as a result of it's an embarrassing stat to have.
“Now that's out of the best way let's attempt to make it three [wins] on Saturday towards Brighton, as a result of we now have to start out placing a bit extra consistency collectively. The final three or 4 years we'd put in a efficiency like this and the next recreation we come down once more. We have now set a bench mark, there are numerous areas we are able to do extra.
“The supervisor strives for perfection so I'm positive he'll need us to play higher than we did within the second half. Nice battle, huge spirit, huge win, however once more we now have to go once more.”
