Liverpool manager Arne slot blamed the inability to press Newcastle United for his direct style for their narrow defeat in the Carabao Cup final.
Reds are beaten on Wembley Just a few days after Leaving the Champions League against Paris Saint-Germain. But while Slot claimed that Liverpool and PSG were evenly matched more than 180 minutes, before additional times and penalties, in the last 16 ties, he could not say the same after facing Newcastle.
“A disappointing result, a disappointing effect. A completely different than I felt after the Paris Saint-Germain game,” Liverpool chief thought.
The slot admitted that Liverpool It failed when it came to duel, further claiming that the way Newcastle played prevented him from knowing if his team was still tired of dealing with PSG.
“This game only had to do with playing the duel and there was no intensity at all about running in this game, so you can’t even judge if it’s tired, physically, because we couldn’t press them,” the Dutchman explained.
“You can judge a team if they are tired if they press, but it’s not pressing anything because they played over our press. The game was slow, not intense, so it’s hard to judge for me if we were physically ready. I’d rather look at how the game went and this game went exactly that way [Newcastle] He wanted it to be … Fighting a lot of duel and a lot of duel through the air.
“If we played a football game through the air against them 10 times, they are probably winning nine times because they are stronger the team through the air than us, which led to the first goal and the second goal. They are stronger in that part of the football than us and that is why they beat us.”
Slot denied the proposal that Newcastle players were any “hungry” to win from Liverpool, because the end of the decade of the trophy drought was “for fans”.
He said: “The players are 15 years old to play football and want to win every single trophy they compete for. This is what we want.
“I think there were no more hunger for them; the game went the way they wanted to go and they were stronger in that part of football than us and that’s why they beat us up.”
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