{"id":225889,"date":"2025-10-26T04:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T04:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/225889\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T04:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T04:57:11","slug":"arne-slot-admits-liverpools-brentford-defeat-among-his-worst-as-losing-run-goes-on-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/225889\/","title":{"rendered":"Arne Slot admits Liverpool\u2019s Brentford defeat among his worst as losing run goes on | Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arne Slot admitted that Saturday\u2019s defeat by Brentford<\/a> was \u201cup there\u201d as perhaps the most disappointed he has been in his time as Liverpool manager, and acknowledged that opponents seem to have worked out how to play against them.<\/p>\n

\u201cTeams have a certain playing style against us, which is a very good strategy to play,\u201d said Slot, \u201cand we haven\u2019t found an answer yet, and that every time going 1-0 down doesn\u2019t really help as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

After last week\u2019s defeat by Manchester United, Slot seemed mildly outraged that Ruben Amorim\u2019s side had been so direct. This Saturday, there was a marked change of tone but the problem was the same. \u201cThey\u2019re a very good team in winning duels and second balls,\u201d he said, \u201cand you have to give them credit for that. It\u2019s also difficult to win a game of football if the set-piece balance is in their favour.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brentford\u2019s opening goal stemmed from a long throw from Michael Kayode, an increasingly familiar weapon. Long thows, Slot said, were \u201cthe only thing we did yesterday on the training pitch, preparing for that. And the meeting today. Brentford<\/a> are also known for very good set pieces, but they are also, in my opinion, known for a fantastic counterattack.\u201d<\/p>\n

Their second came from a counter, soon after Cody Gakpo had tumbled in the box. Brentford\u2019s third was a penalty initially given as a free-kick only for VAR to conclude the contact had occurred on the line.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think if you would show both situations,\u201d Slot said, \u201cthe penalty we conceded, and that moment, and you show this to every referee in the world, he would tell you maybe both are nothing, but if he had to give one of the two, he definitely would give the one to Cody.\u201d<\/p>\n

The loss was Liverpool\u2019s fourth in a row in the league; if Arsenal beat Crystal Palace on Sunday, they will lead the champions by seven points. \u201cWe don\u2019t compete up there because we simply concede too many goals,\u201d said Slot. \u201cIf you change quite a lot during the summer, then I think it\u2019s not a surprise that it can go a bit like this, but I didn\u2019t expect it to go with four losses in a row. It\u2019s always a bit of a bumpy road. I don\u2019t know if that has been seen as an excuse, but from the last six games we\u2019ve played, it\u2019s been five away.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Keith Andrews, the Brentford manager, the key was the way his side, having conceded in first-half injury time, didn\u2019t let Liverpool dictate the first 10-15 minutes of the second half and play their way into confidence. \u201cThe message was we don\u2019t take a step back,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe team\u2019s growing, clearly: the relationships of the players, the rapport of the players; there\u2019s trust in the group. I wouldn\u2019t be able to sleep at night if I felt teams were coming here and having a comfortable game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arne Slot admitted that Saturday\u2019s defeat by Brentford was \u201cup there\u201d as perhaps the most disappointed he has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-225889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}