Slot reacts to a disappointing game and performance

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Liverpool boss Arne Slot reacts to a disappointing game and performance  27/09'2025  Selhurst Park, London, UK

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00:00I see a disappointing flow at the end there, how do you assess the result and the performance?

00:19A disappointing first half and a disappointing end of the game.

00:23So, again, once again, credits to Palace because, I don't know, one of them is the charity shield,

00:32but it's not the first time we lose against them, although the first time was on penalties.

00:36We've played each other four times since I'm here.

00:39We both won once, twice it was a draw, though penalties they won.

00:44So it tells you how difficult it is for us, but not only for us, for every team in the league to beat them.

00:49From what we could see today, they deserved to be up two or three goals in the first half.

00:54Created 3-4, very good chances.

00:58We were lucky that Alisson helped us.

01:01But yeah, in the end of the game, I think the second half was a much better performance from us.

01:06We created chances, which not many teams do here or if Palace plays away.

01:11It's very hard to create a chance.

01:13We created quite a lot.

01:14It took a while for us to score a goal.

01:16And when we did, limited time to play and to concede another set-piece goal is then as disappointing as our first half was.

01:29What were your thoughts earlier?

01:30Were you just going over the win at that point?

01:32No, we had a lot of attacking players in our line-up at that moment of time.

01:37But I don't think many things happened in the extra time.

01:42It was, by the way, the extra time of the extra time when we conceded.

01:46Which I think was fair because they made a substitution.

01:49So then you add half a minute extra and then I don't know exactly when they scored.

01:54But I assume that was between 96 and 96 in 30 seconds.

01:59So yeah, then we can only blame ourselves by defending is the way we did.

02:04So one of our players decided to run out because he wanted to play a counter-attack which was of no use.

02:10Because time was up.

02:12So it was only about defending.

02:14So yeah, maybe we were too offensively minded.

02:18Not we, one player was too offensively minded in that moment.

02:22Which led to us, them scoring the winner, us losing the game.

02:27You conceded two goals from set-pieces, is that a big concern for you going forward?

02:33Nah, against Newcastle we conceded two set-pieces.

02:36They were the only two chances they might have had in that game.

02:39Today they had more than only two set-piece goals.

02:42They didn't score more but they had chances from open play, from transition.

02:47So there were more things not to like today than only defending the set-pieces.

02:52The good thing was that in the other moments Alisson saved us.

02:56But Palace have a few threats.

02:59Set-pieces are one of them but counter-attack and balls in behind are number two and three.

03:04And from all these situations they've created a lot of chances.

03:08And what I said, we were able to create quite a lot against a Palace team.

03:15Which hardly ever concedes a chance.

03:18But when you look at the first half, they totally deserved to win.

03:22In the second half I think it was a much better performance from us.

03:25If one team deserved to win today, I think it was Palace.

03:31You mentioned before, yesterday, that playing exactly 90 minutes wouldn't have been smart.

03:38You obviously played at 84 today. What did you make of performance and how do you look at that?

03:44That had a lot to do with the low intensity of the game.

03:46If you face a low block, ten players in and around their own 18-yard box.

03:52When they have to do build-up, the goalkeeper takes a little bit of time before he kicks it long.

03:56Then there's hardly any intensity in the game.

03:58So in a more open game where both teams want to press high and want to do build-up.

04:03And you have to run a lot as a nine to press the other team.

04:05Then you might not play him for 84.

04:08But in a game like this, which was low tempo, I think I can say that.

04:14With some bursts of counter-attacks from them.

04:17But there you are, number nine is mainly not so involved in.

04:20He was close to a goal.

04:22He was very honest to stay on his feet.

04:24He got a little bit of a shirt pull.

04:26That's why he was unbalanced when he had to shoot.

04:30And that maybe was just enough.

04:32So, smart foul.

04:33A foul, not a foul.

04:35But smart.

04:36A little push to get him unbalanced.

04:38But he came closer and closer to a goal.

04:40But in the end, he didn't score.

04:43But quite a good performance for him.

04:45Last question, David.

04:47What was the idea to bring in Cody Kepo?

04:51What was the idea behind it?

04:53Nah.

04:54We wanted to overload the midfield with Florian Wiets in the first half.

05:00That's why we didn't start with Cody.

05:02But if you are 1-0 down and you need a goal, you prefer to have whiff on both sides.

05:07That's why we brought Cody in.

05:10And later on, we kept on bringing in offensive players that can score goals,

05:14taking the risk.

05:16Because, yeah, you're already 1-0 down.

05:19And again, we scored.

05:21Maybe, deserved is maybe not to say.

05:24But if you base only on the second half and the chances we had,

05:27because we were just discussing Isak.

05:29Florian Wiets had, of course, a very big chance as well.

05:32We were closer and closer to scoring a goal.

05:35So, yeah, that was the reason to bring Cody in.

05:39Because the way we played the first half wasn't as I was hoping for before the game.

05:48Thank you, guys.

05:50Thank you, guys.

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