Erling Haaland<\/a> scored a hat-trick, via a 39th-minute penalty, a header in first-half injury time and a hooked shot after 57 minutes. Antoine Semenyo scored City\u2019s other goal as they reached an eight consecutive Cup semi-final.<\/p>\nA shell-shocked Slot said: \u201cI missed the fighting spirit in the first 10 minutes after half-time. And then afterwards, it was just a game where both teams accepted it was 4-0. But in those 10-15 minutes of time, I missed the fighting spirit \u2013 the willingness to win your duel, to be there first, to make it difficult for either a pass or a cross or a finish. That is something we definitely have to do better on Wednesday.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dominik Szoboszlai backed his manager\u2019s grim verdict. \u201cThe fighting spirit wasn\u2019t there enough, the mentality wasn\u2019t there enough,\u201d said the Liverpool midfielder. \u201cNone of us were there as much as we could. That\u2019s a good question \u2013 why? I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s hard to find words to be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n
Many of Liverpool\u2019s 8,000 fans left the ground after Haaland scored City\u2019s fourth. \u201cWe don\u2019t want them to leave early. We have to perform better,\u201d said Slot. \u201cThat\u2019s the first thing. We have to show now that we react after a loss like this and after so many disappointments we already had this season.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah reacts after missing a penalty during the FA Cup quarter-final against Manchester City. Photograph: Mike Egerton\/PA Wire. <\/p>\n
This was Liverpool\u2019s 15th defeat of the campaign, the most since 2014-15. Slot was asked how he can turn form around before facing PSG. \u201cThere are only three or four days, so there are a few things you can do, and one of the things we need to do if we play against PSG or Man City, teams of this level, you need to defend better than we did in the 20 minutes when we conceded the four goals,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo one will probably remember it, but the first 35 minutes there was a lot to like from my team. It would be nice if we then can score a goal once in a while as well from the chances we create.\u201d<\/p>\n
Liverpool\u2019s Hugo Ekitik\u00e9 missed two early chances and Mohamed Salah, in his first game since announcing his departure at the end of the season, missed four, including a penalty when City were 4-0 ahead.<\/p>\n
Of Salah, Slot said: \u201cI wouldn\u2019t like to point to individuals after the disappointing season we are having. It is about the team. Mo had a few good chances. That is always important as you want players like that to have chances.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn general this season we have got him and other players in good positions. Unfortunately if you look not only today but the whole season the amount of goals we score is far too low for the chances we created and definitely for the Liverpool standard.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pep Ljinders, City\u2019s assistant manager, said: \u201cErling scored the 12th hat-trick for Man City and the second was insane. The way he puts the ball into the corner. I love when these old-school striker goals. Cross, wait, commit, chip. I love it.\u201d \u2013 Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FA Cup quarter-final: Manchester City 4 [Haaland 39 pen, 45+2, 57; Semenyo 50] Liverpool 0 Arne Slot slammed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[28468,72927,61,60,1547,8579,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-382763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-erling-haaland","9":"tag-fa-cup","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-liverpool-fc","13":"tag-manchester-city","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382763","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=382763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}