{"id":47205,"date":"2025-09-27T17:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T17:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/47205\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T17:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T17:56:10","slug":"arne-slot-frustrated-with-liverpools-set-piece-defending-we-have-to-do-better-liverpool-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/47205\/","title":{"rendered":"Arne Slot frustrated with Liverpool’s set-piece defending – “We have to do better” – Liverpool FC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arne Slot<\/a> was rightly frustrated with Liverpool\u2019s approach to defending set-pieces, after conceding from a corner and a throw-in to lose 2-1 at Crystal Palace<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Slot went into Saturday\u2019s trip to Selhurst Park knowing Palace were defensively strong and particularly adept at attacking set-pieces.<\/p>\n

He set his side up in a questionable 4-2-2-2 formation from the off, which changed to a more orthodox 4-2-3-1 at half-time with Liverpool 1-0 down and struggling to break Palace down.<\/p>\n

Their biggest concern, however, came when facing set-pieces; Ismaila Sarr opened the scoring from a Daicha Kamada corner before Eddie Nketiah won it at the very end following Chris Richards\u2019 long throw.<\/p>\n

\"LONDON,<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want to compete you need a very positive balance with set-pieces and even more so in this league,\u201d Slot told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was one of our biggest strengths last season, now we have conceded two against Newcastle<\/a> and two here.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut this league is more and more and more about set-pieces.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nketiah\u2019s winner was particularly frustrating for a number of reasons, not least that it was avoidable as Milos Kerkez<\/a> conceded the set-piece due to his inability to clear with his right foot.<\/p>\n

Liverpool could not deal with the chaos Richards\u2019 arrowed throw caused, and the ball fell to the former Arsenal<\/a> striker to finish.<\/p>\n

\"LONDON,<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is never ideal when you concede in extra time of extra time, but there was a sub so half a minute extra was fair,\u201d Slot explained, avoiding any rhetoric over additional time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have to check when they exactly scored, but we have to defend the throw-in better.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe take learnings from all the games we have played and we can take even more from a game like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

In many ways this defeat had been telegraphed, with Liverpool riding their luck more often than not in a previously unbeaten start to the campaign.<\/p>\n

The onus falls on set-piece coach Aaron Briggs to continue working on their setup in defensive situations, with Slot\u2019s comment that it is an area the Premier League<\/a> is \u201cmore and more and more about\u201d ringing true.<\/p>\n

Palace will not be the last side Liverpool face who employ long throws and cleverly devised, physically dominant corner routines.<\/p>\n

Next time they will need to be better prepared to deal with them, as with Virgil van Dijk<\/a> (6\u20195\u2033), Ibrahima Konate<\/a> (6\u20194\u2033), Dominik Szoboszlai<\/a> (6\u20191\u2033), Ryan Gravenberch<\/a> (6\u20193\u2033) and Alexander Isak<\/a> (6\u20194\u2033) all starting they weren\u2019t without the height required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arne Slot was rightly frustrated with Liverpool\u2019s approach to defending set-pieces, after conceding from a corner and a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16118,42,34655,43,34656,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-47205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-arne-slot","tag-headlines","tag-liverpool-vs-crystal-palace","tag-news","tag-set-pieces","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47205","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=47205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}