It says an awesome deal that, regardless of having a significantly spectacular comeback win over AC Milan to debate post-match, Arne Slot couldn’t assist however relive his aspect’s weekend defeat to Nottingham Forest.
The 46-year-old admitted he informed his Liverpool gamers after the tie that he couldn’t perceive how the Reds had managed to lose to the Difficult Timber once they have been able to Tuesday evening’s efficiency.
“We confirmed how good we will play on the ball and that’s additionally what I stated after the sport,” the previous AZ Alkmaar boss spoke on Amazon Prime’s protection.
“In case you can play so good it’s really nearly, possibly the phrase ‘shame’ is an excessive amount of, but it surely’s unbelievable that you just lose in opposition to Forest at house if you happen to can play this effectively in the present day.”
Virgil van Dijk, Ibou Konate and Dominik Szoboszlai have been the scorers because the guests rallied after Christian Pulisic’s early opener.
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There was additionally a long-awaited debut for summer time signing Federico Chiesa following his transfer from Juventus.
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Arne Slot’s gripes in regards to the Nottingham Forest defeat are justified
To be fully truthful to Jurgen Klopp’s successor, anybody can be left scratching their head after these two closely contrasting performances.
Maybe we will boil it all the way down to a collapse of momentum constructed up earlier than the September worldwide break. Maybe it was only a blip, as our 3-1 displaying on the San Siro would on the very least point out. Or maybe even we will chalk it as much as a kind of merely weird outcomes managers can expertise within the early levels of their new position.
Both manner, Slot can really feel happy that he noticed a real response from his Liverpool aspect. Firstly, to our weekend setback within the Premier League after which to going a aim down early on in our conflict in Milan.
Dare we are saying there are some promising indicators that our beloved mentality monsters by no means went away?
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