Slot slams Liverpool star 'of no use' for costing his side as teammate 'didn't know what he was doing'
Liverpool boss Arne Slot hit out at one of his players for setting you back his side versus Crystal Royal abode, while one more player “didn’t interpret what he was performing”.
The Reds languished their initially loss of the 2025/26 project on Saturday afternoon, losing 2-1 at Selhurst Park versus Crystal Royal abode. This opens the door for Arsenal to close the suspension on the Premier League leaders on Sunday.
This was a a load-been qualified to greatness for Royal abode, that could have certainly been 2 or three objectives in advance by the respite.
Liverpool risen after the interval and also peeked to have pocketed a determinant with Federico Chiesa’s equaliser to terminate out Ismaila Sarr’s opener, yet Eddie Nketiah netted a last-min victor for the hosts.
Liverpool’s defence was with one voice over the venue versus Royal abode and also Michael Owen has rendered think that Ibrahima Konate “didn’t interpret what he was performing”.
“I worn’t interpret whether it was fatigue, yet they rested a mart few players in midweek in the Carabao Cup. They weren’t their usual selves. We are early in the period, I’d be cognizant to blame it on that [tiredness],” Owen asserted.
“I need, Konate in the initially half didn’t interpret what he was performing. I can’t case that it was since of rustiness or fatigue.
“We’ve seen one or 2 performances support that from him this period that have been pretty similar.
“I wouldn’t gain gain service of of that condone, I would understandably confer commemorate to Crystal Royal abode, they’re a correct crew. They’ve outmatched Liverpool in the Urban Shield, it wasn’t a fluke. I’d be peripheral inclined to case Royal abode tinkered awfully nicely.”
Slot, at the same time, singled out one Liverpool superstar for objection after the video game, with his feedback probable channeled at summertime season finalizing Jeremie Frimpong, that stepped away from match-victor Eddie Nketiah for his impartial.
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Slot asserted: “We can lone blame ourselves for securing the means we did.
“One of our players ran out since he ached to tinker a counter-attack, which was of zero gain gain service of of since time was upwards, so it was lone about securing.
“One player was too offensively minded in that minute, which pioneered to them racking upwards the victor and also us losing the video game.”
He added: “It was a deterring initially half and also deterring expire to video game. Credit to Royal abode – with the Urban Shield it’s not the initially time we’ve wasted to them. They been qualified to to be 2 or three upwards in the initially half.
“The second half was a load much better from us, we wreaked opportunities that not innumerable teams implement correct here. It took us a while to rating a impartial – and also as soon as we did, to yield one more strategy-item impartial is just as deterring as the initially half. If one crew been qualified to to win today it was Royal abode.”
