Liverpool boss Arne Slot issued a thinly-veiled dig at certainly one of his defenders after his crew’s profitable run got here crashing to a halt at Selhurst Park on Saturday.
Eddie Nketiah’s added-time winner introduced the Reds again right down to earth after 5 straight wins and ensured Crystal Palace at the moment are the one unbeaten crew within the Premier League.
Discussing how Palace managed to breach the Liverpool defence late on, Slot stated ‘certainly one of our gamers’ left his defensive put up to be in place for a counter-attack as Liverpool seemed to construct on Federico Chiesa’s 87th-minute equaliser.
‘We are able to solely blame ourselves. Defending the best way we did,’ a clearly pissed off Slot stated afterwards. ‘One in every of our gamers determined to expire as a result of he wished to play a counter-attack, which was of no use as a result of time was up.’
He didn’t title the participant, however the Dutchman’s phrases appeared to be geared toward Jeremie Frimpong who stepped up away from Nketiah, anticipating the ball to fall his method whereas leaving the striker free.
‘It was solely about defending. Perhaps we had been too offensively minded. One participant was too offensively minded in that second, which led to them scoring the winner and us dropping the sport.’
Arne Slot stated the Liverpool star’s actions had been ‘of no use’ after they conceded late at Palace
Slot didn’t title the Liverpool participant however it appears he was referring to Jeremie Frimpong
Slot added: ‘There was just one crew that deserved to win and that was Palace. They’d greater than solely two set-piece objectives.
‘They did not rating extra, however that they had probabilities from open play, from transition. So there have been extra issues to not like than solely defending the set-pieces.
‘The great factor was that within the different moments, Alisson saved us. Palace have just a few threats. Set-pieces are certainly one of them, however counter-attack and balls in behind are quantity two and three. From all these conditions, they’ve created quite a lot of probabilities. We had been capable of create quite a bit in opposition to a Palace crew, which hardly concedes an opportunity.
‘However if you have a look at the primary half, they completely deserved to win. Within the second half, it was a significantly better efficiency from us.’
