Liverpool’s director, Arne Slot, blamed the inability to pressure Newcastle United because of his direct style due to his close defeat in the Carabao Cup final.
The Reds were hit on Wembley A few days after Leaving the Champions League Against Paris Saint-Germain. But while Slot stated that Liverpool and PSG were even uniformly for 180 minutes, before extension and penalties, in this last draw, he could not say the same after confronting Newcastle.
“Disiencing result, disappointing performance. Completely different from what I felt after the game of Paris Saint-Germain,” said Liverpool’s head.
Slot admitted that Liverpool It failed when it were duels, also claiming that the way Newcastle made it impossible to know if his team was still tired to face PSG.
“This game only had to do with duels and there was no intensity in terms of running in this game, so you can’t even judge if we were tired, physically, because we couldn’t press them,” said the Dutchman.
“You can judge a team if they are tired if they press, but there was nothing to press because they played in our press. The game was slow, not intense, so it is difficult to judge for me if we were ready physically. I prefer to look how the game went and this game came out exactly (Newcastle) I wanted it to be … a struggle with many duels and many duels through the air.
“If we play a football game in the air against them ten times, they probably win nine times because they are a stronger team in the air than we do, which caused the first goal and the second goal. They are stronger in this part of football than we were struck.”
Slot denied the suggestion that Newcastle players were “most famous” to win than Liverpool, because ending the trophy drought for decades was “for fans”.
He said: “Players are 15 years old to play football and want to win all the trophies that compete. It’s also what we want.
“I don’t think there was more hunger; the game went in the way they wanted it to go and are stronger in this part of football than we were and that’s why they hit us.”
