Arne Slot's post-match press conference | Liverpool 0-2 PSG

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[00:00:00]Hi, looking at stats tonight, it was 53 possession for 53% possession for yourselves, 21 shots to their 12, five on target for yourselves, six on target for them. They made 29 clearances compared to 14. Just wonder what those stats your players competed tonight and also potentially what level you feel that this group can get to as well. What indication it gives of the level they can get to whilst recognizing obviously we'll lose Andy Robertson at the >> cool lot of questions.

[00:00:34]>> I think we made a lot of progression compared to last week. Um I have to give a lot of credits to the players how hard they worked. I have to give a lot of credits to our fans uh how they helped us tonight uh to execute our game plan and that means if we have a high press it's so helpful if there are fans behind you to keep on uh pushing you pushing you pushing you that's what they did unfortunately it's one of the many examples of this season where we weren't able to score from the many chances we had again we were so far underperforming in terms of xG and that is um just an ongo going thing with us throughout the whole season and add to that as it seems to be a bad injury. We don't know sure yet. Add to that another intervention of the Ver which were not in our favor and that's also not for the first time this season.

[00:01:28]Then of course we are very disappointed because um I think there were parts in the second half where you could just feel if we can score now this is going to become a special night and um but but but the future looks very bright for this team for this club because um we've shown that we can compete with the champions of Europe in our stadium uh to be the dominant team. Not many teams can be dominant against and generate so many chances as we did.

[00:01:58]But yeah, chances is one thing, scoring is a second.

[00:02:02]>> What do you make of that decision to overturn the penalty? Because the argument is obviously clear and obvious.

[00:02:09]Was it clear for yourself?

[00:02:11]>> Um I think I think probably last last week we've had too much luck. Uh and we ran out of luck today. So last week there were also two incidents where we might have been a bit lucky. Uh although the first one that was overturned by the VR there was clearly no contact and the ball was played. The second one could have been a penalty but if you don't give it a rest I don't think a VR should overturn it. today in my opinion and I've I've conceded a few of these penalties this season and I could name them all for you but starting with Brenford away and leads away where yes there is contact but you would never give a penalty for this but yeah if penalty is being given usually usually VRs tell you I see contact so yeah then the decision should uh be the onfield decision I should uh support that but I wasn't surprised, were you? You've seen a lot of our games. You're another You're another You're a fan of another club in this uh in this city. So, uh I wasn't surprised that this went against But that's not the story of the game.

[00:03:16]I'm >> surprised given that there's contact that it's >> Yeah, me too. But not when it comes to us because this has happened to us multiple times this season. I think um I think it was Rodri Silva who said uh um that they've been very unlucky with referees this season. I heard them saying this one month ago, something like that. Then I thought, oh, if you can say that, then remember the both games you played against us. How many decisions then went against us? So, what does it tell about us if they already think it went against them?

[00:03:50]>> But, um, it is what it is.

[00:03:53]>> And you mentioned Hugo. What's the early indication? Was it an Achilles injury?

[00:03:57]And also, was Joe Gomez injured when >> No, he wasn't injured, but I wanted to make a different substitution. And then he said to me, "I'm not convinced if I can keep sprinting. I feel a little bit.

[00:04:09]So I think it's better to go off not to take the risk." So yeah, then I think that was my fourth or my fifth. That would have been my fourth substitution.

[00:04:18]This So then to keep someone on that might get injured out was never a smart thing. So I had to change the substitution. Uh and Yugo, yeah, I think we all saw the video in the clips. That doesn't look good. Uh 88 minutes till tonight. We could play with Florian, Alex, and Yugo. We added 27, 28 to that tonight, and I would be surprised if we can add a few more minutes to that this season. But the good thing is Alex is back.

[00:04:46]>> So yeah, this side.

[00:04:57]>> Yeah, sorry.

[00:04:59]The good thing is that he's back. What did you make of his performance? Was he sharp enough a game of this this size?

[00:05:06]And was it a bit of a gamble hoping he'd get back to his?

[00:05:11]>> No. I said before the game that um if you go to extra time and you play the second half and he plays 45 minutes, there's only two minutes in between before extra time comes up for half an hour. And I don't think that was realistic. But to play him 45 and let's see at halftime how he feels to add five to 10 minutes to that that was a p possibility for today. But because we already had to make this first substitution in the first half I didn't want to make the second substitution five or 10 minutes after halftime.

[00:05:40]That's why I took him off at halftime.

[00:05:43]um he was twice close to a goal and that's why uh you play a striker of his level because um there was one header from a from a set piece and there was one great run in behind Pacho which where he was really close to u to scoring which eventually was offside. So um so it's good to see and to have him to have him back and I think he was ready. If I thought he wasn't ready then I wouldn't have played him.

[00:06:17]Hello from just a question about do you know anything about the gravity of his injury because the image was very very bad.

[00:06:31]>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I want to come back first to add something about Alex. I think if you compare us today with last week, I think it's fair to say that he was completely ready to play. Otherwise, you can play a first half as we did.

[00:06:43]Although the second half was even better. Yeah, a Yugo looks really bad, but it's difficult for me to say how bad. I think these things are you'll uh tomorrow we will, how do you say this?

[00:06:56]Investigate, not >> investigate.

[00:06:57]>> Yeah, investigate this further. Um how bad it is for him. Let's see. Uh but um yeah, that it doesn't look good. That's clear.

[00:07:09]No, no. Uh, I didn't see him at Halime and after the game he was already um home. I went home. So, um I haven't spoke to him yet, spoken to him yet.

[00:07:22]Sorry.

[00:07:25]You've mentioned again that your team missed so many chances which is very obvious. Do you have any explanations?

[00:07:30]Is it a lack of patience, a lack of precision, lack of concentration? Is it like maybe too desperate to score goals?

[00:07:36]What is it about? No, it's difficult.

[00:07:38]But one of the reasons to play Alex and Yugo is because they have proven to be goal scorers. So, um, so yeah, I don't I I yeah, I don't know what it is, but it is part of our season this season. Uh, but of course, part of it is also that Yugo, sorry, Alex haven't been available because it is one proven goal scorer in the Premier League. Uh, as a number nine that I have in my team, it's it's of course Alex who scored so many times for Newcastle. Um but I think um if you look at the finish of Dembelea, I think Rio had the same shot two minutes before. Very good shot by the way. Very good save of the goalkeeper. But um but the Balandor winner scored uh two minutes later. A great goal and that is sometimes you have to give credits to uh to this particular player who finished that chance of really well.

[00:08:37]Do you score the second one as well?

[00:08:38]>> Yes, sir.

[00:08:38]>> Okay. Thank you.