{"id":333169,"date":"2025-12-07T17:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T17:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/333169\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T17:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T17:03:07","slug":"arne-slot-befuddled-by-liverpools-set-piece-anguish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/333169\/","title":{"rendered":"Arne Slot befuddled by Liverpool’s set-piece anguish"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool<\/a> boss Arne Slot admitted he cannot explain why his side have conceded so many goals from set-pieces this season in the Premier League<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Slot’s side let slip a 2-0 lead in a thrilling 3-3 draw at Leeds on Saturday and although they regained the lead late on through Dominik Szoboszlai<\/a>, Ao Tanaka<\/a> snatched the hosts a point from a corner deep in added time.<\/p>\n

Liverpool have now conceded 10 goals from set-pieces this season — second only to Nottingham Forest<\/a> (11) in the top flight — having let in nine during the whole of the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n

Liverpool conceded a late equaliser against Leeds from a corner.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

“I don’t think there’s any team in the world that can be in a higher league position than we are if you concede 10 set-pieces,” Slot said.<\/p>\n

“Then it’s hardly possible to be in a higher position or having more points than we have if you concede so many of those.<\/p>\n

“For me, it’s not the set-up, because it’s the same set-up as we had last season where we hardly conceded — or didn’t concede at all, in the first half of the season.<\/p>\n

“In this set-up there are a lot of similar players that are mainly important. So, tell me what it is. If I tell you now it’s bad luck, then you will probably say that’s a bit too much after 15 games.”<\/p>\n

Saturday’s set-back has increased the pressure on Slot to fathom how to get the best out his players again.<\/p>\n

Liverpool had slumped to six defeats in seven top-flight matches before last weekend’s win at West Ham.<\/p>\n

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They followed that up with an unconvincing Anfield draw against surprise package Sunderland<\/a> in midweek and let slip a 2-0 lead at Elland Road.<\/p>\n

But Slot dismissed suggestions his players were proving to be mentally fragile this season.<\/p>\n

“I don’t feel that,” the Dutchman added. “Although it’s never nice when you’re 2-0 up and you control the game. I think we even had the chance to go 3-0 up with Cody (Gakpo) and a counter.<\/p>\n

“It’s not even a dangerous situation that leads to a penalty and then if you play at Leeds, or no matter which stadium you play in the Premier League, then there is belief again.<\/p>\n

“That belief becomes even stronger if the first chance they have that goes in and it’s 2-2, and then I saw mentality — the mentality to come back.<\/p>\n

“Not only mentality but also quality. Macca [Alexis Mac Allister<\/a>] stepped over the ball… Dom was in the position we wanted him to be in and finished it off.<\/p>\n

“[The] referee then came with nine minutes of extra time and in that nine minutes of extra time we conceded (from) a set-piece.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool boss Arne Slot admitted he cannot explain why his side have conceded so many goals from set-pieces…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-333169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}