Arne Slot gave a usually blunt evaluation of Liverpool’s defeat to Nottingham Forest on Saturday, his first loss in command of the Reds.
Callum Hudson-Odoi scored within the 72nd minute to earn the guests all three factors, and it was a day which noticed the house aspect create valuable little at Anfield regardless of having 14 photographs.
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The LFC boss didn’t pull any punches along with his post-match verdict, saying (by way of Night Normal): “The end result frustrates essentially the most, and we can’t be blissful about how the sport went. It was a stop-start recreation and we hardly created any possibilities.
“We solely have to have a look at ourselves; we have now to be higher. Far too many instances, we misplaced the ball across the space. It was not ok. We’ve to be higher with the ball.
“Our choices and execution wasn’t ok. Basically, we defended fairly effectively, however the two quick gamers [Hudson-Odoi and Anthony Elanga] got here on and made it troublesome. We took a whole lot of dangers and ultimately it was an excellent aim.”
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It’s good to see that Slot wasn’t making an attempt to deflect from what was, fairly frankly, a substandard efficiency from Liverpool and a actuality examine after a beforehand good begin to the season.
Regardless of having virtually 3 times as many photographs as Forest and 70% possession (Sofascore), the house aspect by no means actually threatened within the second half, with Luis Diaz’s shot off the publish within the first 45 minutes the closest we got here to scoring.
Even when the guests slowed the sport down at instances, they have been inside their rights to take action when the tactic was working, and the onus was on LFC to interrupt them down. Because the Dutchman referenced, his crew have been bafflingly sloppy within the remaining third, making the flawed resolution or executing passes poorly far too typically.
The window for a debrief isn’t in depth, with Liverpool travelling to Italy to face AC Milan of their Champions League opener in simply three days’ time.
Slot has brazenly acknowledged that his aspect have been nowhere close to their finest at the moment, so hopefully we’ll see the specified response on the pitch on the San Siro on Tuesday. One factor is for sure – he gained’t settle for a repeat of what we witnessed this afternoon.
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