Liverpool star Alisson aims dig at Nottingham Forest tactics in shock defeat

Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker took a subtle excavation astatine the tactics employed by Nottingham Forest successful their daze triumph astatine Anfield.

Callum Hudson-Odoi’s superb decorativeness secured a 1-0 triumph that represented Forest’s archetypal triumph successful the reddish fractional for Merseyside for 55 years.

Having made a flawless commencement to beingness nether Arne Slot, the Reds were expected to widen their winning tally to 4 matches but came up against obdurate opponents who nullified the Reds’ star-studded attack.

Slot attempted to freshen up his guardant enactment with the introductions of Darwin Nunez and Cody Gakpo, but it was a Forest substitute who had the decisive interaction connected the game, overmuch to Alisson’s annoyance.

“It was a shame, losing points astatine location is not bully astatine each but the hostile contiguous lone wanted to support and play for the agelong ball.

‘We gave them that excessively easy erstwhile they scored, it was mediocre defensively from us,’ said the Brazil international.

‘We couldn’t make much, we had a deficiency of prime today, we needed much energy. It is 3 points we person mislaid contiguous unnecessarily.

‘All the opportunities we had were not wide capable and they defended great, they threw themselves successful beforehand of the ball.’

This was Liverpool’s archetypal lucifer aft an planetary interruption and it appeared to amusement arsenic passes went astray with alarming regularity, the connections built up antecedently becoming severed rather quickly.

Liverpool had 10 players who played the afloat 90 minutes successful some games for their planetary teams and the likes of Alexis Mac Allister and Luis Diaz travelled backmost from South America.

However, that is not retired of the mean and Slot did not look to find excuses.

‘It’s ever difficult, but I don’t deliberation it had thing to bash with it,’ said.

‘Players came backmost beardown and I saw contiguous a squad that wanted to combat until the end. That wasn’t to bash with energy.

‘If you look astatine the goals we scored until now, we scored rather a fewer from modulation moments from winning the shot back, but the different squad (Forest) played implicit our property a batch with a batch of agelong balls.

‘It wasn’t bully capable contiguous due to the fact that excessively galore idiosyncratic performances successful shot possession were not up to the standards that I’m utilized to from these players.’

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