Beth Lindop
Multiple Authors
WOLVERHAMPTON, England — Arne Slot mentioned Liverpool’s 2-1 defeat to Wolverhampton Wanderers on Tuesday is a case of the “same old story” after his group conceded yet one more late winner within the Premier League.
Wolves midfielder Andre secured the victory for the hosts with a deflected strike within the 94th minute at Molineux Stadium. It means Liverpool have now misplaced 5 video games because of objectives after the ninetieth minute this time period; probably the most of any facet in a single marketing campaign within the competitors’s historical past.
“How do I sum this up?” Slot mentioned of his group’s ninth Premier League lack of the season. “Same old story. Recently, we are picking up points because we score many times from set-pieces, but what didn’t change in the last five, six seven games is that we struggle and find it very hard to score from open play chances that we do create.
“Not as a lot as I would really like from all of the ball possession we’ve got, however sufficient and way over the opposite group. But the tip result’s we scored one they usually scored two and one other one in harm time so it sums up our season once more.
“We have had far more possession than the other team, we have created more in open play in general than the other team, but have struggled to score from open play. Recently we have scored a lot from set-pieces. Again we had a lot of set-pieces, but in the first half were very poorly taken.
“I do not assume we performed an excellent first half, the second half was higher, nonetheless not nice, however higher. We created extra, and the simply earlier than harm time we had been twice very shut from probabilities to make it 2-1.
“Mo [Salah] was dribbling and had to the left and right two players open, but the ball was intercepted by their defender and there was the Virgil [van Dijk] header, and the one we conceded wasn’t even a chance.
“That has occurred to us so many occasions this season. That it occurred in harm time could also be a coincidence, though it has occurred so many occasions. We hardly gave away an opportunity in the present day, we gave away one probability and conceded two.”
Liverpool’s latest defeat leaves them in fifth place, though they could drop to sixth if Chelsea beat Aston Villa at Villa Park on Wednesday.
Reflecting on whether the loss has impacted his team’s chances of Champions League qualification, Slot said: “It’s one other setback and we did not assist ourselves with this consequence, by no means. But there are nonetheless 9 video games to play. We are coming nearer and nearer to the tip.
“Dropping points in a game where it’s absolutely not necessary. If you look at the run of play, I’m not saying we played great, but if we play this game in this fashion 10 times we don’t lose 10 times.
“It’s removed from positive that we win each time, due to this fact we aren’t adequate. If we do not have to depend on a deflected shot, we’ve got to play higher and do higher. But we have had sufficient probabilities to win the sport.
“But credit to Wolves as well. They fight from first second until the end and got maybe a bit of a luck they deserve when you look at how much they put in throughout the whole game.”
