Liverpool manager, Arne Slot has expressed his disappointment with the defeat to Chelsea saying its similar to the one against Crystal Palace this season.
Softfootball can report that the Reds lost 2-1 to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Saturday evening, the same result against the Eagles at Selhurst Park last weekend as they have dropped off from the top of the table. Cody Gakpo canceled out the early Moises Caicedo opener but Willian Estevao scored a late winner.
Speaking to Liverpool’s official media he said:
Another disappointing loss. That’s clear. Another game similar to the Palace game, although the game was completely different because the playing style of both teams are completely different. But not similar to the Palace game where in the first half I think we played not our best football but still were able to create three big chances. They’ve only had one and they’ve immediately scored it, which was completely different to the Palace game, where Palace created a lot of chances in the first half.
And the second-half performance, like in Palace, I liked, we’ve created more than enough chances to score more than one goal – last week and today. I think there was a period of the game where I felt, ‘Now we’re going to win it.’ We came a lot of times very close with chances but also with moments where we had four-versus-three in our favour, not outplaying it well enough in the last pass. And in the last 10 minutes, it was an end-to-end game, both teams could have won it. We didn’t and Chelsea did.
Liverpool are now second on the premier league log with 15 points while Arsenal overtakes them into first position with 16 points following their 2-0 win over West Ham United at the Emirates on Saturday afternoon.
