Arne Slot points finger at Liverpool trio as he takes aim over RB Leipzig failure

Liverpool continued their 100 per cent grounds successful the Champions League with triumph implicit RB Leipzig astatine the Red Bull Arena arsenic Darwin Nunez scored the lone extremity of the crippled connected Wednesday night

Arne Slot has praised 3 Liverpool players for ensuring Liverpool came distant with 3 points against RB Leipzig successful the Champions League, but would person preferred the trio were not called upon to marque specified a important contribution.

The Dutchman hailed the interaction of Virgil van Dijk, Ibrahima Konate and Caoimhim Kelleher successful securing a cleanable expanse erstwhile the Reds came nether unit astatine the Red Bull Arena. Republic of Ireland goalkeeper Kelleher pulled disconnected 2 awesome saves successful the second stages of the European fixture.

Darwin Nunez's goal proved to beryllium the lone extremity of the lucifer arsenic Liverpool failed to person their earlier dominance into a greater lead. Nevertheless, the Anfield broadside earned their sixth successive distant to commencement the play arsenic Slot oversaw an 11th triumph retired of his archetypal 12 matches.

The erstwhile Feyenoord brag was frustrated that his squad were forced to bent connected successful Germany but believed his squad played good for overmuch of the crippled aft a dilatory start. "Yeah. I don’t deliberation we started the crippled truly good successful the archetypal 10 oregon 15 minutes, but aft that I liked a batch what I saw," helium said pursuing the game.

"Many, many, galore times we played done their press, opened up their midfield and went for an attack. That led to the archetypal goal, that led to a fewer chances – much than a fewer and past successful the extremity it’s a pity that you inactive request your 2 centre-backs to play specified a large crippled and your goalkeeper to marque 2 specified important saves due to the fact that a crippled similar this should person been ours aft 60, 70 minutes and it wasn’t. That’s wherefore the past 20 were inactive hard for us."

Slot believed the show was a large betterment from the Premier League triumph implicit Chelsea at the weekend. The 46-year-old was successful disbelief astatine the proposition Liverpool didn't predominate the game.

"You were not wrong the stadium? You thought we didn’t dominate?" helium said. "If you play bully teams and if you play a cookware 1 squad successful an distant game, determination volition ever beryllium moments successful the crippled that the different squad has immoderate moments arsenic good and I deliberation 1 of them was from a country kick. The mode I looked astatine this crippled was that we had, for ample parts of the game, full dominance similar successful each the different games we played but for the 1 against Chelsea.

"So, I americium not disquieted astatine each astir this game, I was a spot much worried, if you privation to telephone it similar this, aft the Chelsea game. But this is however I similar to spot our squad play: overmuch much chances than the different team, overmuch much shot possession, overmuch much clip freeing up the midfield from build-up.

"So, that was bully but I hold with you that if you were lone determination for the archetypal 10 and the past 20 [minutes] that determination were besides hard phases successful the game. But that, astatine this level, is what happens successful football."

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