{"id":174057,"date":"2025-12-04T04:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T04:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/174057\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T04:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T04:16:06","slug":"slot-admits-anfield-may-be-losing-fear-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/174057\/","title":{"rendered":"Slot admits Anfield may be losing fear factor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arne Slot admitted Anfield may be losing its fear factor for opposing teams after Liverpool had to come from behind to draw 1-1 with Sunderland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chemsdine Talbi’s 67th-minute goal threatened to shock the defending Premier League champions until Florian Wirtz danced through the defence and saw his shot go in off Nordi Mukiele.<\/p>\n

Even then the visitors could have snatched a rare win had Wilson Isidor\u2019s one-man counter-attack not been denied by Federico Chiesa\u2019s goal-line clearance.<\/p>\n

“It is clear that teams who play us think they can get a result,” said head coach Slot, whose side narrowly avoided a 10th defeat in 14 matches.<\/p>\n

“In the second half there was only one team that had the ball, but if they had one free-kick they could bring it to our half with a long ball, that is a danger with them.<\/p>\n

“They have shown they are a threat with set-pieces. The good thing is we didn\u2019t concede from a set-piece.”<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, a draw felt like two points dropped after Sunday\u2019s morale-boosting win at West Ham.<\/p>\n

“I was hoping for more but I knew how difficult it was,” Slot added. “A deflection led to us going 1-0 down and in recent games we have found it really hard to get an equaliser, but we have had a bit of luck.<\/p>\n

“In the final minutes of the game we were close to making it 2-1 because we had a few set-pieces but then I look up and I saw the player of them (Isidor) completely free on the halfway line.<\/p>\n

“The good thing is Fede could have thought it is nothing to do with me, but he kept sprinting and the draw was the minimum he deserved and we did.”<\/p>\n

Despite missing the chance to snatch their first league win at Anfield since 1983, Black Cats boss Regis Le Bris was satisfied with the result.<\/p>\n

“We started well. Probably we didn\u2019t believe enough that it was possible to score but then we did at the start of the second half,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We had this opportunity to score the second goal but a good result for both teams.”<\/p>\n

Asked if the dressing room was disappointed, Le Bris added: “I don\u2019t think so. They were proud the way they played.”<\/p>\n

Watch the draw for the FIFA World Cup 2026 on Friday from 5pm on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player. Follow a live blog on the RT\u00c9 News App and on rte.ie\/sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arne Slot admitted Anfield may be losing its fear factor for opposing teams after Liverpool had to come…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-174057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}