Liverpool boss Arne Slot bemoaned one other setback as backside membership Wolves pulled off the shock of the season up to now with a stoppage-time winner – 24 hours after the Reds boss had claimed Premier League video games are not a pleasure to observe.
Andre’s deflected strike capped a frantic finish to the sport after Mohamed Salah had cancelled out Rodrigo Gomes’s 78th-minute opener.
Slot, referring to many sides’ reliance on set–items, stated on Monday that ‘a lot of the video games I see usually are not a pleasure to observe’ but in addition admitted, prophetically because it turned out: ‘It is all the time attention-grabbing as it is so aggressive, and that makes this league nice.’
After final evening’s defeat – their ninth of the season – Slot stated: ‘It is one other setback and we did not assist ourselves with this outcome, in no way. However there are nonetheless 9 video games to play. We’re coming nearer and nearer to the tip.
‘My expectations have not modified all through the season as a result of I anticipated greater than we’re combating for now. Dropping factors in a recreation the place it is completely not needed.
‘In the event you take a look at the run of play, I am not saying we performed nice, but when we play this recreation on this trend 10 occasions we do not lose 10 occasions.
Liverpool boss Arne Slot bemoaned ‘one other setback’ after his facet misplaced to backside membership Wolves
Virgil van Dijk additionally hit out at his facet’s ‘sluggish’ and ‘predictable’ play at Molineux on Tuesday
‘It is from positive that we win each time, due to this fact we aren’t ok. That has occurred to us so many occasions.’
Former captain Steven Gerrard was scathing, with Liverpool now clinging on to a top-five spot. ‘For 65 minutes, Liverpool had been determined tonight, actually poor,’ he stated on punditry duties for TNT Sports activities.
‘They did not play with the appropriate tempo, the appropriate high quality. Wolves had been very snug.’
And captain Virgil van Dijk informed TNT Sports activities: ‘I feel it is right down to ourselves. It was sluggish, we had been predictable, sloppy in possession and flawed decision-making. We did not concede possibilities however in the event you carry out like that then a outcome like this is usually a results of that and that is a truth. It was disappointing.’
When requested why his facet began the sport slowly, he reasoned: ‘It isn’t one motive why that is the case. The sport these days we over–analyse why issues are taking place on the pitch.
‘We as a workforce wish to begin a recreation in addition to we are able to and within the final recreation we did, immediately we had majority possession however we had been nonetheless making flawed choices and we could not discover the tip product’
Liverpool return to Molineux on Friday, after they play within the fifth spherical of the FA Cup, and Van Dijk added: ‘Conceding objectives is all the time irritating. We have come right here on the again of a pair clear sheets, defensively we have been very strong however it’s what it’s and we now have to maneuver rapidly on as a result of we come again right here in a few days and we wish to do properly within the FA Cup.’
