´Outcomes don´t lie´ – Slot needs Liverpool response after shedding streak

Arne Slot acknowledged that “outcomes don’t lie” as Liverpool try to finish their three-game shedding streak in all competitions towards Manchester United on Sunday.

Liverpool had made an ideal begin to the league marketing campaign, helped out by late objectives, however their type caught as much as them earlier than the worldwide break.

They suffered back-to-back Premier League defeats towards Crystal Palace and Chelsea on both facet of their Champions League loss to Galatasaray.

It’s the first time that Liverpool have been on such a run since Slot stepped into the dugout.

In the event that they have been to lose on Sunday, they’d lose three consecutive top-flight matches for the primary time since February 2021 (a run of 4).

Liverpool may very well be so far as 4 factors off the leaders by the top of the weekend, and Slot is aware of he must see a quick enchancment from his facet.

“What I like about high gamers is that they don’t do something otherwise in the event that they win three in a row,” Slot mentioned.

“They don’t stroll into the constructing considering they’re higher than everybody else. They put together each sport in the identical manner, whether or not they win or lose. However the exterior world may be very targeted on outcomes, which we’re as properly.

“We don’t deny that we have to do higher. We’re working each single day to make the hole between us and the groups we face greater.

“We’ve performed 10, received seven and misplaced three. The three losses have been by shut margins. Twice within the final minutes, each groups acquired a penalty; each occasions, VAR ought to have overturned the choice.

“However solely the one we acquired was overturned, so the margins are small. However as I preserve saying, we shouldn’t be depending on such margins.

“Outcomes don’t lie. For those who lose three in a row, then you must do higher. We’re conscious of that, and we’ve got to react.”

Liverpool have a brand new look assault in comparison with final season, with Alexander Isak nonetheless chasing his first Premier League aim, whereas Mohamed Salah has didn’t hit the heights of final time period, although he has scored 13 objectives towards United within the league.

And Florian Wirtz is but to register a aim or help within the Premier League regardless of having 9 photographs and creating 11 probabilities – his 20 mixed photographs and probabilities created are probably the most of any participant but to attain or help within the competitors this time period.

“The primary reply is to not concede as many objectives as we did. If a crew scores one or two objectives, then we want three objectives.

“Within the first half of final season, we primarily acquired these objectives from a particular second from one in all our entrance three; second half, we would have liked set-pieces towards a low block. This season, we haven’t had these particular moments, and we haven’t scored from set items.

“It’s clear that conceding 4 objectives from set items is much an excessive amount of for a crew that desires to compete.”

United have struggled to place collectively a powerful run of type this season, alternating between profitable and shedding of their final 4 league video games. On the highway, they haven’t received since March.

Based on Opta’s anticipated factors desk, United have underperformed this season; their anticipated factors whole is 12.5 after seven video games, however Ruben Amorim’s facet have collected simply 10.

“I sit up for each single Premier League sport, however perhaps extra the Man United one as a result of I understand how particular it’s,” Slot mentioned of their opponents.

“We all know it’s the sport that’s maybe watched probably the most everywhere in the world. It’s a sport we’ve got to be at our greatest, as a result of, for my part, United have had a greater begin to the season than the league desk suggests.”