{"id":382347,"date":"2026-01-01T22:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/382347\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T22:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:50:10","slug":"liverpool-disappointed-as-unbeaten-run-goes-to-8-with-leeds-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/382347\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool disappointed as unbeaten run goes to 8 with Leeds draw"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Beth LindopJan 1, 2026, 05:03 PM ET<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Based in Liverpool, Beth Lindop is ESPN’s Liverpool correspondent and also covers the WSL and UWCL.<\/p>\n

Arne Slot described Liverpool<\/a>‘s 0-0 draw with Leeds United<\/a> as a “disappointment” despite his team extending their unbeaten run to eight games in all competitions.<\/p>\n

Liverpool dropped yet more points at Anfield as they struggled to find a way past Daniel Farke’s well-organised side. They stay fourth in the table, six points behind third-placed Aston Villa<\/a>, having also been held to a 3-3 draw by Leeds in the reverse fixture last month.<\/p>\n

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Comparing the results after the game, Slot told Sky Sports: “Different because last time we conceded in extra time, but the end result of both games is a draw and that’s a disappointment.<\/p>\n

“Not the first time this season, from all the ball possession we have, we do generate chances, but I don’t think it is enough or maybe it should be enough if you look at the expected goals, but we should be able to create more.<\/p>\n

“We were very close with Virgil [Van Dijk], but we didn’t and this season multiple times we have conceded a goal in a game like this and that’s a positive thing today. We kept a clean sheet and that’s why we have a draw today.”<\/p>\n

Liverpool striker Hugo Ekitike<\/a> thought he had won a penalty in the first half after Jaka Bijol<\/a> held him inside the area, however referee Chris Kavanagh deemed the contact to be fair.<\/p>\n

“There was an obvious moment in the first half where we didn’t go to the floor, which I understand because every time we go to the floor we never get a penalty,” Slot said. “Those are the margins, I see other teams going down in situations like that, but we don’t do that. We’ve gone down when fouls were made multiple times this season and not got a penalty.<\/p>\n

“In general we do speak about it and other players going down easily to get free kicks or other moments but this is who we are.<\/p>\n

“Against West Ham Lucas Paquet\u00e1<\/a> tried everything possible to get a second yellow and Alisson, who plays with him on the national team, tried to help him not get a yellow. In the end he got the second yellow in that game.<\/p>\n

“If other fans or people look into it you will find moments where we went down and didn’t get anything. In the end it is who we are.”<\/p>\n

Liverpool are back in action on Sunday with a match against Fulham at Craven Cottage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beth LindopJan 1, 2026, 05:03 PM ET CloseBased in Liverpool, Beth Lindop is ESPN’s Liverpool correspondent and also…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-382347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}