{"id":368422,"date":"2026-04-07T20:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/368422\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T20:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:59:07","slug":"psg-v-liverpool-weve-become-quite-experienced-in-negativity-under-pressure-slot-denies-liverpool-gave-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/368422\/","title":{"rendered":"PSG v Liverpool: ‘We’ve become quite experienced in negativity’ – under-pressure Slot denies Liverpool ‘gave up’…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arne Slot says Liverpool<\/a> have no chance against Paris St-Germain unless his side turns up for 90 minutes – after disagreeing with Virgil van Dijk’s comments about the team giving up.<\/p>\n

Captain Van Dijk criticised his team-mates after last Saturday’s 4-0 capitulation against Manchester City<\/a> in the FA Cup.<\/p>\n

“You shouldn’t give up and that’s maybe, at a certain point, what happened,” said Van Dijk<\/a> after Liverpool<\/a>‘s 15th defeat of the season.<\/p>\n

The Reds are under pressure to bounce back when they face European champions PSG in the Champions League quarter-final first leg in the French capital on Wednesday (20:00 BST kick-off).<\/p>\n

And Slot has warned his side they have to play much better or face another crushing defeat.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t see players giving up, but I also think it is good from a captain that he has a strong and firm reaction,” Slot said at a news conference in Paris on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“This year we have been quite experienced in terms of negativity. This was a big one because it was a [FA Cup] quarter-final. It was a big loss against our rivals.”<\/p>\n

Liverpool<\/a> conceded four times inside 20 minutes either side of half-time against City.<\/p>\n

“I can tell you if we have the 20 minutes we had at City tomorrow evening here, we will again concede four goals,” added Slot.<\/p>\n

“So it is a challenge for us to be from the first to the last second at the level we were at in the first 35 minutes [against City].”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arne Slot says Liverpool have no chance against Paris St-Germain unless his side turns up for 90 minutes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-368422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}