Slot on Liverpool's shock home defeat to Notts Forest
14/09/2024
Anfield Stadium, Liverpool, UK
14/09/2024
Anfield Stadium, Liverpool, UK
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00:00We'll take this one.
00:07Okay.
00:08What are your reflections on that and how do you feel it went wrong today?
00:33I think the only thing we had influence on was ball possession because they played a
00:39lot of long balls.
00:40So if you then take the ball back, you need to go past 11 players.
00:45And we had a lot of ball possession, but only managed to create three, four quite good chances.
00:54So that's by far not enough against, if you have so much ball possession, if you play
00:58so much on their half, we need to be much better.
01:01And we lost the ball so many times in simple situations.
01:06So yeah, that is, I think, the main story from the game.
01:11Ball possession, not good enough.
01:15It's always difficult to say this, but I don't think it has anything to do with it.
01:32Players came back strong and I saw today also a team that wanted to fight till the end.
01:38So that not to do, in my opinion, with energy, but we would simply had the ball a lot and
01:43we had to create from ball possession.
01:45If you look at the goals we've scored till now, we also scored quite a few from transition
01:53moments.
01:54So from winning the ball back and then go into transition, but the other team played
01:59over our press a lot with a lot of long balls.
02:01So like I said, we got the ball mostly in our last line and then it wasn't good enough
02:08today, also because too many individual performances in ball possession were not of the standards
02:15that I'm used to from these players.
02:18Do you regard it as a big setback to the process?
02:27Not to the process, but it is a big setback.
02:32If you lose a home game, that's always a setback.
02:38If you face a team, we never know, maybe they will go all the way to fight for Champions
02:43League tickets, but normally this team is not ending up in the top ten, so if you lose
02:50a game against them, that's a big disappointment, although they were organised and structured
02:55really well today.
02:57How will you react to this?
03:04I want to see the same attitude every single day, after a big win, after a small win, after
03:11a draw, after a loss.
03:13So it's just go out to work again tomorrow, analyse what we did well and what we didn't
03:17do well, so there were enough things we could improve from them in the United game.
03:22That's also what we showed them, we showed them also a few good things and that's going
03:25to be the same tomorrow and the day after.
03:29But this is a different game than the one we've played until now because we faced a
03:32low block, so the team we faced played really low, and that's because of the result that
03:40we had a lot of ball possession.
03:43But we were not able to create a lot.
03:46How are you going to prepare for this big turnaround?
03:58Like we prepare all the other ones.
04:00Does it feel like an easy influence?
04:03No, that wouldn't be good.
04:05If I would change my way of preparation after a loss, that means that I only do the best
04:10work I can after we lose, so I always try to do the same, just the same as I expect
04:15from the players.
04:16They have to recover in the best possible way after a win and after a loss or a draw,
04:22and we will try to be in the best possible way prepared for Tuesday, which is going to
04:25be a completely different game, but also a game where we will face a lot of quality.