Liverpool manager Arne slot rejected a 2-1 proposal of 2-1 in the Newcastle United in the EFL Cup final was a product of fatigue after their loss of criminal shooting from Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League.
The reds were the favorites that requested their first trophy under the slot, which overseen the extraordinary first season from Jurgen Klopp, and Liverpool is 12 points clean from the Arsenal at the top of the Premier League.
But they were canceled by a top performance from Newcastle, who took the lead of 2-0 through goals of Burn and Alexander Isak’s Day before Federico Chiesa pulled one back at the time of stopping.
The insidious Liverpool screen followed five days after they released to transfer their first leg over the PSG in the last 16 tie, the pulsating second leg eventually goes all the way to the penalty shootout, in which Gianluigi Donnarumma shone to send League 1 leaders 1.
Liverpool looked deprived of energy at Wembley, but the groove would not quote fatigue as a factor, but pointed out the direct approach to Newcastle that the manager Eddie Howe acknowledged that he held himself near his chest when two sides met on Anfield as the main reason for the demonstration of his team last month.
“It is always difficult to judge mentally,” Slot told reporters asking if his side was tired.
“Did we mentally or physically tired on Tuesday, but this game had nothing to do with running, this game only had to do with playing the duel.
“And there was no intensity at all about running in this game, we can’t even judge that we were physically tired, yes or not, because we couldn’t press them.
“You can judge a team if they are tired if they press, but it is not pressured because they have played over our press.
“If they got naked or free kicks, every time they brought it to our last row that brought to many pieces set.
“So the game was slow and not intense, so it’s hard for me to judge, if we are physically ready. Mentally, it’s hard.
“If you look at the result and performance, you may feel it [the PSG game] Done something to us, but I preferred to look at how the game went, and this game went through exactly the way they wanted it to be.
“Fighting a lot of duels and a lot of duel through the air, and if we played 10 times the football game through the air against them, they probably win nine times because they are stronger than us in the air.”
Liverpool will have time to get over the disappointment this week, and the international break has given them the opportunity to be overgroup in front of the Merseyside derby with Everton on April 2.
Whether this break came at a good time for his team, Srot said: “We are one of the biggest clubs in the world, Liverpool. But they have not been in their history for the first time or lost two games in a row in the last two seasons.
“This is part of playing football, especially if one of them is when you are currently facing the best team in Europe and the other faces Newcastle, which is a very strong team in England.
“I would love to play next week. But now the situation is going to their national teams, where there are two more games again. Then it’s probably one and a half weeks before we face Everton, which again is a team we have already faced. We know how difficult it was.”
