The Reds fell behind to an early Ivan Perisic penalty at Anfield on Wednesday night, though Dominik Szoboszlai equalised quickly and it was 1-1 at half-time.<\/p>\n
But Guus Til restored PSV\u2019s lead soon after the restart and Couhaib Driouech made it 3-1 before then notching his second of the evening in stoppage time.<\/p>\n
See what Slot said in his post-match press conference below.<\/p>\n
On what he felt changed in the second half from his team…<\/p>\n
Mainly the [second] goal I think, although in the start of the second half \u2013 before they scored the goal \u2013 we already struggled more than in the first half. We had more problems, or we had more difficulty, in being as aggressive in the press as we were in the first half. That had a bit to do with Hugo Ekitike, who straight after half-time felt his back a little bit and that\u2019s why his press wasn\u2019t as aggressive as the first 45 minutes.<\/p>\n
I know, because I follow the Dutch league, if you are not aggressive enough against PSV then they have players who can outplay you because they are a very good team with very good football players on the ball. That\u2019s what we saw in the second goal they scored. But, again, after they scored the second goal I think we had our chances to equalise, but not for the first time this season we didn\u2019t take the chances we had.<\/p>\n
On what he attributes the individual errors to…<\/p>\n
I think it is always about the team and I think we can all do better, individuals and the three [moments] you are talking about but I think this goes for everyone, including myself. I don\u2019t think this is the time to emphasise on individual errors. It is more the time to talk about the team instead of the individual errors because individual errors are made in football. We have to make sure that if we make them then we react or make it up so that it doesn\u2019t lead to a goal and if it does lead to a goal that we are good enough then to come back into the game. That\u2019s a team thing and not an individual thing.<\/p>\n
On whether the decision to replace Ibrahima Konate with Federico Chiesa was tactical…<\/p>\n
Yes, I found that one difficult because up until the moment you were just describing I think he [Konate] played a good game. But, if you go 3-1 down, I think the thing that I have always done \u2013 and what I will keep doing \u2013 is then bringing an extra attacker in. I found that hard because I knew the outside world would probably then focus even more on the error he made, but I think it was the decision I had to make. Unfortunately it didn\u2019t lead to anything except they scored the 4-1.<\/p>\n
On whether the players are \u2018shell-shocked\u2019 by the current run of form…<\/p>\n
I think it is a shock for everyone. For the players, for the journalists in here, for me, for everyone. This is a shock and it\u2019s very, very, very unexpected if you look at the quality we have. Is it a lack of confidence? I didn\u2019t see that in the first half. Of course, it is hard if after losing 3-0, straight into this game you concede a goal. I saw the mentality these players have shown so many times since I am here, came back in a way you would like to come back, created chances, we kept them in their half \u2013 and after another setback by conceding the 2-1, I also saw us creating chances again to score the 2-2. But, in the end of the game, I did see it affected maybe one or two players that we were 3-1 and 4-1 down, that\u2019s true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Reds fell behind to an early Ivan Perisic penalty at Anfield on Wednesday night, though Dominik Szoboszlai…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[607,608,49,596,603,598,609,611,610,134,602,601,597,606,50,599,604,600,51,47,52,48,605],"class_list":["post-285213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-alisson","tag-firmino","tag-headlines","tag-homepage","tag-klopp","tag-lfc","tag-lfc-news","tag-lfctv","tag-lfctv-go","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-liverpool-fc-match","tag-liverpool-fc-news","tag-liverpool-football-club","tag-mane","tag-news","tag-reds","tag-salah","tag-the-reds","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-van-dijk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285213","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=285213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}