Arne Slot Blames Inefficiency As Liverpool Fall 2-1 To Wolves

Arne Slot Blames Inefficiency As Liverpool Fall 2-1 To Wolves
Slot laments poor finishing and open play struggles
Reds drop crucial points with eight matches remaining

Liverpool F.C. suffered a late 2–1 defeat to Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. at Molineux on Tuesday night after conceding a stoppage time goal.

Andre struck a deflected winner four minutes into added time to hand Wolves all three points. Rodrigo Gomes had opened the scoring in the 78th minute before Mohamed Salah equalised almost immediately for Liverpool.

“Same old story,” Liverpool manager Arne Slot said after the match.

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EKO HOT BLOG reports that despite enjoying 65.8 per cent possession and winning 11 corners to Wolves’ two, Liverpool failed to convert their dominance into goals.

“Recently, we are picking up points because many times we’ve scored from set-pieces, but what did not change in the last five, six or seven games is that we struggle and find it very hard to score from the open-play chances that we do create,” he said.

“Not as many as I would like from all the ball possessions we have, but enough and far more than the other team. But, end result, we score one and they score two, and indeed another time in extra time, so it sums up our season again in this game as well.”

Slot admitted his team delivered a below par first half performance.

“Today again, we had a lot of set-pieces. First half, [they were] very poorly taken, a bit similar to how we played. I don’t think we played a very good first half,” he said.

He noted some improvement after the break but said it was insufficient.

“The second half was better; still not great, but better. Created more and in extra time, or just before extra time, I think we were twice very close from chances to score the 2-1,” he said.

“Those are chances and the one we concede is not even a chance, and that is what has happened so many times to us this season. That it happens in extra time might be a coincidence, maybe, although it happened so many times, but we hardly gave away a chance today. We gave away one chance but conceded two.”

Slot praised Wolves’ defensive organisation and revealed he had urged quicker ball movement at half time.

“Well done by Wolves. They made it really hard for us, compact,” he said.

“It was possible to play a bit faster from side to side. And if you play a bit faster than the few times that we did in the first half, our wingers at least have some time to take their full-back on.”

With eight Premier League matches remaining, Slot described the result as another setback.

“My expectations have changed throughout the season because I expected more from us than where we are fighting for now,” he said. “But it’s another setback, and we didn’t help ourselves with this result, not at all.”

Arne Slot Blames Inefficiency As Liverpool Fall 2-1 To Wolves

“There are still eight games to play, so we are coming closer and closer to the end, and then dropping points in a game where it’s absolutely not necessary if you look at the run of play.”