Ibrahima Konate lifts lid on Liverpool dressing room talks after Manchester United loss

Konate

Ibrahima Konate expressed frustration at Liverpool's failure to take full advantage of their second-half improvement after a 3-2 loss at Manchester United on Sunday.

After a poor first half had seen Michael Carrick's side go in 2-0 at the interval following goals from Matheus Cunha and Benjamin Sesko, the Reds responded through Dominik Szoboszlai and Cody Gakpo after the break, with parity restored inside 10 minutes of the restart.

Liverpool were in the ascendancy after going level but failed to score a third before United rallied and found a winner from Kobbie Mainoo to condemn Arne Slot's men to an 18th defeatacross all competitions.

Konate

"It's very sad for us today because we didn't start the game very well, but the second half, we started very well,"

"And it was a big opportunity to take three points today and we didn't get anything.

"For sure, it's a big disappointment because I think we concede two goals that we must not concede when we start the game. [In] the second half we came back with a great mentality to [go] 2-2.

"And in other moments we can hurt them but we concede a goal and that's why it's very sad for us, because we didn't start the game very well but the second half we started very well.

“I think it was a big opportunity to take three points and we didn't get anything."

On what was said during the half-time interval, Konate revealed how the discussions centred around winning more individual battles against the Red Devils, having been comprehensively outfought in the opening 45 minutes.

Konate added: "It was just about the mentality. In the first half we lost many challenges on the pitch. When it was 50-50, most of them Manchester [United] won them on the pitch.

"But in the second half we just had to change it and change the mentality.

"This is what we have done and that's why we scored two good goals with our pressing, with our aggressiveness. But we needed a little bit more."

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