However, he was more angry about conceding a \u201cridiculous\u201d goal.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t necessary to be 2-0 down and it wasn\u2019t necessary to lose this game today,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you concede after six minutes in this stadium, you always know you are going to face a struggle period afterwards.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the first times we lost the ball they counter-attacked and made it 2-0 and of course everything you do before deserves a lot of criticism but I don\u2019t think there was that much difference between the first and second half.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think it is a surprise to anyone this season if there is a VAR decision then that decision goes against us because that\u2019s been the whole season, every single time the same.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the second goal we did not concede because of handball, we conceded it because we lost it in a stupid position and we lost a few big moments afterwards in duels.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a complete pattern over the whole season but there is also a pattern that we concede ridiculous goals when we are the better team, one or two [players] switching off and then we conceded a goal.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat we have more influence on and I should focus much more on that than these referee decisions, which go against us but it is clear that it is the whole season the same.\u201d<\/p>\n
Liverpool could have secured their own Champions League qualification with a victory and still should as they have a six-point cushion to sixth-placed Bournemouth.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say concerned is the right word but I am completely aware we need three points, which is why I was so annoyed we didn\u2019t pick them up today,\u201d Slot added.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you are 2-2 coming back from 2-0 down you should at least come away with a result, which we didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
Manchester United head coach Michael Carrick admits he feels \u201cpretty natural\u201d in the role after the win not only secured Champions League football but strengthened his claims to be permanently appointed to the job.<\/p>\n
United\u2019s first league double over their arch-rivals since the 2015-16 season came after Kobbie Mainoo capped a personally significant week with the winner just days after signing a new contract.<\/p>\n
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Manchester United’s Benjamin Sesko scores their second goal (Action Images via Reuters\/Jason Cairnduff)<\/p>\n
His goal avoided some embarrassment after efforts from Matheus Cunha and Sesko in the opening 14 minutes were cancelled out by Dominik Szoboszlai and Cody Gakpo following mistakes early in the second half.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has been a good run, we have beaten some very good teams and it\u2019s been challenging,\u201d said Carrick.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love doing what I am doing, it\u2019s a great position for me to be in and it feels pretty natural if I\u2019m totally honest.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not being blase because it\u2019s a difficult role but it feels like I\u2019ve been here a long time on and off and I understand what it brings and to be sat in this position is a good position to be in.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked if he would be disappointed not to get the job full-time, Carrick added: \u201cWe will have to wait and see.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we came in [the] Champions League was a little bit in the distance and we wanted to get back into Europe and to be there with three games to spare is a big achievement.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has just been a step, we\u2019re not over-celebrating it. Whatever it is going to happen is going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, he was more angry about conceding a \u201cridiculous\u201d goal. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t necessary to be 2-0 down and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,5859,917,112],"class_list":["post-431054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-liverpool-football-club","tag-manchester-united","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431054","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=431054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}