Repeated setbacks ‘hard to take’ for Liverpool players, admits Arne Slot

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Liverpool boss Arne Slot believes his side are “improving” but admitted poor results are taking a toll on his players after they were held to a 3-3 draw at Leeds.The reigning champions have won only one of their last five league games after Ao Tanaka’s stoppage-time equaliser at Elland Road saw them held to a draw for the second time in four days and lose further ground on the top four.Hugo Ekitike’s quickfire double early in the second half put Liverpool in control before Leeds fought back through Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s penalty and Anton Stach.Dominik Szoboszlai appeared to have won it for the visitors with a late third, but substitute Tanaka snatched a point for Leeds in the sixth minute of added time.

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00:00Do you think we are improving?

00:05I think we are improving. Individuals are improving.

00:09Performances are improving.

00:11But, as you just said, it's hard to take for these players as well,

00:16that are putting so much effort in, fighting so hard,

00:19doing a lot of things well,

00:21not to get the result so many times after each other.

00:27I think we can all understand that that does something

00:30with an individual and with a team.

00:33It's really hard, but it's not about me.

00:36It's about what the players feel, what the fans feel,

00:39what everyone that loves this football club feels.

00:42I think we all feel the same at this moment.

00:45I hope everyone sees that these players are fighting really hard

00:50and combine that with good football.

00:54Again today, we hardly conceded a chance.

00:57Hardly conceded a chance.

00:59And conceded three goals.

01:01It's not for the first time that I see us doing many things well this season,

01:06without combining the result with the performance.

01:12But, as you said, I don't know if you said this,

01:16but I can take a lot of positives from this game.

01:19If we would have won it with 3-2 or with 2-0,

01:21I think we were all sad.

01:23Control performance, dominant,

01:26against a very difficult team to play against,

01:29because Chelsea experienced it,

01:31City experienced it in the second half.

01:33They've changed their playing style to long ball, long ball, long ball.

01:36About the next few years.

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