Arne Slot insisted he can steer Liverpool out of a damaging sequence after their latest defeat, accepting responsibility while refusing to concede the season. The visitors extended their lead when Morgan Gibbs-White slotted a third goal into the bottom corner with 12 minutes remaining, a strike that left Slot standing on the touchline open mouthed as a portion of the crowd began to leave.<\/p>\n
Slot acknowledged the scale of the problem after Liverpool suffered their sixth reverse in seven league games but remained bullish about recovery. “Yes of course there\u2019s a way out, especially with the quality players we have,” he told his postmatch press conference. “Lately, it\u2019s almost constantly that we miss our chances and the ones we concede go in,” he sighed. “That will not continue throughout the whole season.”<\/p>\n
Set pieces again proved decisive. The centre back Murillo finished crisply from a corner for the opener amid an offside controversy that surrounded his strike. That goal was one of nine Liverpool have conceded from dead-ball situations across the opening 12 games of the season, matching the total they conceded from set pieces in the entire 2024\u201325 campaign.<\/p>\n
Slot highlighted the problem succinctly. “The first time they arrived in our box they scored,” Slot added. “It\u2019s a difficult cocktail to drink if you miss your own chances and almost every time you concede a chance, the ball goes in.” Mohamed Salah was tasked with marking Murillo for the corner and lost his man, and 33 seconds after the interval he again failed to track Neco Williams\u2019s run, which led to Nicol\u00f2 Savona being teed up for Forest\u2019s second goal.<\/p>\n
Liverpool had started the match promisingly, rattling off eight shots in the opening 30 minutes. “I hadn\u2019t seen us create that much in an opening half hour maybe all season,” Slot would later muse. Yet the early chances counted for little when set-piece frailties and defensive lapses handed the visitors control, leaving little visible prospect of the Anfield turnaround the club\u2019s history is known for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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