Arne Slot explains Liverpool mistake that is 'always' happening as Alexander Isak plan revealed
Arne Slot refused to use the absence of Alexander Isak as an excuse as Liverpool lost 3-2 to Manchester United on Sunday afternoon.
the Reds boss confirmed that £125m striker Isak will play again before the end of the campaign after sitting out the game at Old Trafford with a minor groin complaint.
Slot went into the match without Isak, who is the most expensive player in British football history, 17-goal top scorer Hugo Ekitike and Mohamed Salah, who was sidelined with a hamstring issue.
United took a two-goal lead into half time before Dominik Szoboszlai and Cody Gakpo restored parity 10 minutes into the second period.
However, Kobbie Mainoo steered home a late winner for the hosts and Slot did not point towards his lack of options up top for an 11th defeat of the term.
Slot
"No, Isak isn’t [out for the season],"
"We are expecting him back very soon.
“There is no excuse. I haven't spoken about missing players and I won't talk about it now.
"If we can play a second half like we did there is no necessity to have other players here.
"But we weren't able, with this team, to have a chance of winning this game and we were quite close.
“But as always, one moment of switching off leads to us conceding the goal when there was a moment where it was - I think the Liverpool journalists recognise it so many teams this season - it was waiting for us to score one and then we conceded because we switched off for one or two seconds in a crucial moment."
Slot added: "You know when you come here that they want to start strong and aggressive but we were aware of that.
"In the first six minutes, I saw us not picking up the second balls although we had a few moments where we pressed them high but if you concede after six minutes in this stadium, you always know you are going to face a struggle period afterwards.
“"After us conceding, we controlled the ball possession but one of the first tmes after we lost the ball, they counterattacked us for the 2-0 and then everything we have done before deserves a lot of criticism.
"I don’t think there was many differences between first and second but we were able to control their counter-attacks better and created more from the ball possession we had."
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