Liverpool head coach Arne Slot is aiming to get frustrated fans back onside after accepting he “must have done a lot of things wrong” to incur Anfield’s disapproval.<\/p>\n
The team were booed off after conceding a 90th-minute equaliser to Tottenham on Sunday \u2013 the first time the Premier League-winning Dutchman has had such an adverse reaction since arriving in the summer of 2024.<\/p>\n
While the mood on social media has been anti-Slot for some time during a poor season, last weekend was the first time home fans have expressed their feelings so publicly.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s never nice they are frustrated because usually fans are not frustrated after you win,” Slot said ahead of their Champions League last-16 second leg against Galatasaray, in which they must overturn a 1-0 deficit.<\/p>\n
“People told me when I came here that they will support the manager for such a long time, but if you are supposing something then I must have done a lot of things wrong.<\/p>\n
“That\u2019s never a nice feeling to have because being in the club that\u2019s always so supportive for the manager, in good and bad times, then if they are not happy with me, then apparently I\u2019ve done so many things wrong.<\/p>\n
“I did something wrong in the season that we won the league and I definitely did maybe make a few decisions that were not perfect in hindsight.<\/p>\n
“But all the decisions I\u2019ve made, I\u2019ve always made for the same reason, for us trying to win the game.<\/p>\n
“But I also know how the football industry works. Winning can change a lot. That\u2019s what we are trying to achieve tomorrow and we\u2019re completely ready for that.”<\/p>\n
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Much of the criticism this season is that Liverpool are too easy to play against and have not taken enough of their chances when on top in games.<\/p>\n
In an analysis piece on Sky Sports on Monday night, former Reds defender Jamie Carragher said Liverpool were a “team of individuals” and that was why the game plan was not working.<\/p>\n
Reacting to the comments, Slot, who had not seen the clip, said: “If he means we are not perfectly playing together in ball possession and off the ball then he is right.<\/p>\n
“It is not like we are 11 individuals \u2013 if he meant that then I completely disagree. That is nothing to do with an individual mentality, but that the connections are not as strong yet.<\/p>\n
“I agree with a lot of things Jamie has said throughout this whole season. This particular one, I disagree with him. I don\u2019t see this after we conceded for 1-1.<\/p>\n
“After so many disappointments, it would not have been strange if the players had given up but they did not. They (Spurs) had a counter-attack where seven or eight of our players were back in our 18-yard-box and we blocked the shot and the corner led to a chance all the way on the other side for Hugo Ekitike.<\/p>\n
“A team that has given up, a team of individuals or a team that does not work together, does not show that resilience after our 120th setback this season \u2013 that is a bit of an exaggeration but we have had many.<\/p>\n
“He (Carragher) said a lot of things throughout this season that I agree with because I see similar. I cannot always say them and it is helpful for me to not go into detail with other ones I have agreed with.”<\/p>\n
Watch Liverpool v Galatasaray in the Champions League on Wednesday from 7.30pm 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":"Liverpool head coach Arne Slot is aiming to get frustrated fans back onside after accepting he “must have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-351421","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\/351421","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=351421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}