Slump in form<\/p>\n
Liverpool began the current campaign poorly as Salah’s goals dried up and he clashed with Slot.<\/p>\n
PSG is closing in on another French title but Liverpool is fifth in the Premier League, 21 points behind leader Arsenal. Following a crushing 4-0 defeat to Manchester City in the FA Cup quarterfinals on Saturday, captain Virgil van Dijk said his team “gave up” and he apologized to fans.<\/p>\n
Slot called it a humbling loss and, while he did not agree with Van Dijk’s conclusion, felt his captain was justified in speaking out.<\/p>\n
“I think it is good for a captain to have a strong and firm reaction,” Slot said. “Hopefully as a team we can show a strong and firm reaction tomorrow.”<\/p>\n
The Dutchman is reportedly clinging onto his job. Salah will be gone next season and, if PSG knocks out Liverpool, a trophy-less season may threaten Slot’s position.<\/p>\n
Wirtz said the players back Slot.<\/p>\n
“Yes, of course. The team should believe in the manager because they won the league last season,” said Wirtz, who joined in the offseason from Bayer Leverkusen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Slump in form Liverpool began the current campaign poorly as Salah’s goals dried up and he clashed with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4488,85,46,172,49711,105],"class_list":["post-381040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-champions-league","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-liverpool","tag-psg","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}