Liverpool boss Arne Slot says he wants a reaction from his side to their League Cup final loss to Newcastle and their European exit to PSG when they take to the field for the Merseyside Derby with Everton
Melwood, Liverpool, UK
Melwood, Liverpool, UK
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00:00I think there was a bit of noise about us losing against Paris Saint-Germain
00:03and losing against Newcastle as well.
00:05I always try to be rational and try to judge the situation
00:10in the Newcastle and Paris Saint-Germain situation.
00:16I don't think this has happened many times,
00:18that from the nine serious games a team plays in Europe,
00:21because I don't take the PSV game serious, because we were already qualified.
00:27When you win eight and you only lose one,
00:30that you're out before the quarter-finals,
00:37I was a bit more frustrated about the final,
00:42because I think we deserved to lose that one.
00:45And that is, for the first time, I think we deserved to lose a football game.
00:50We were not tough in terms of defending, we were not good with the ball,
00:55so there were not many things to like about the final.
00:58It's the first time this season as well that you've lost back-to-back games,
01:01so what job have you had to do to pick the players up?
01:04How has that been impacted by the international break?
01:07Yeah, they immediately went to the national teams
01:09and all of them played important games over there,
01:12so when we came back I did come back to both situations,
01:17but I think for most of them they didn't forget,
01:21because they know what happened and they are, like me, disappointed for us,
01:26not winning our first trophy and being out of the Champions League.
01:31But we are also realistic, like I just said.
01:34If you played nine games in Europe, you won eight and you were,
01:41you could call it unlucky, going out with penalties.
01:44I think we've tried everything in that game to go through to the next round,
01:49and I can't blame any player at all for that game.
01:53For the final, we were also outworked, and that's not what I like.