Arne Slot admits Liverpool lacked ‘fighting spirit’ at times in Man City defeat

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Arne Slot admitted his Liverpool side “lacked fighting spirit” during key moments of their 4-0 FA Cup quarter-final loss to Manchester City which has piled more pressure on the Reds boss.All the goals came in an 18-minute period either side of the break as Erling Haaland scored a hat-trick and Antoine Semenyo added the other for City, who made it to an eighth consecutive FA Cup semi-final.A miserable afternoon for Liverpool was summed up by Mohamed Salah’s penalty miss at 4-0 down.

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00:00I don't think you have to ask me about the results because that speaks for itself.

00:05That's an unbelievable disappointment.

00:09Losing is already a disappointment, losing with 4-0 and in the quarterfinal of an FA Cup

00:14against a team which Liverpool played so many times great games against or fights against.

00:20And then losing 4-0 is of course a big disappointment.

00:23The 20 minutes where we conceded four goals were not of our standard.

00:30I missed the fighting spirit definitely in the first 10 minutes after half-time.

00:36And then afterwards it was just a game where both teams accepted it was 4-0.

00:41But in that 10-15 minutes of time I missed the fighting spirit but just the willingness to win your

00:49duel,

00:50to be there first, to make it difficult for either a pass or a cross or a finish.

00:57That is something that we definitely have to do better on Wednesday.

01:01Yeah.

01:02Yeah.

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