Arne Slot has admitted he may have made mistakes in his line-up after Liverpool’s 2-1 Carabao Cup final defeat to Newcastle United.
Slot made just two changes from the Champions League penalty shoot-out defeat to Paris Saint-Germain.
Caoimhin Kelleher came on in goal for Alisson Becker, as is customary in the Carabao Cup. And Jarrell Quansah came on at right-back in place of the injured Trent Alexander-Arnold.
After back-to-back defeats, many have suggested Slot may have made a mistake by not rotating his squad more this season.
Slot admitted before the Everton game that he should have made more changes to his line-up for the Newcastle game. คาสิโนออนไลน์ UFABET ฝากถอนรวดเร็ว เริ่มต้นเล่นง่าย And also admitted he may have made a mistake by not giving Wataru Endo a chance to start in midfield.
“It was probably a big mistake for me not to rotate enough, not to rotate against Newcastle. But I think four days should have been enough for the players,” Slot said.
“But it is too simplistic to say we lost because we didn’t work hard enough. We have to give credit to what Newcastle did because at the end of the day we conceded a corner. It was not about sprinting or running back to defend, it was about conceding a corner. “
He (Endo) should have played more if you look at the bigger picture of what he does for the team and in the Carabao Cup. “
But as long as I’m here, eight, nine months. I think you’d be shock if we were 1-0 down or 2-0 and I put a player on who has never scored. It would be a strange change. “
If we were 1-0 up you’d expect me to bring Wata on, but in other cases. If we want to score the goals like in the game, I took Ibou off, dropped the midfield more, brought Curtis (Jones), Ryan (Gravenberch) on the right-hand side, Curtis played more as an attacking midfielder, I brought Harvey (Elliott), who can score goals, I brought Federico (Chiesa). Who can score goals, I’ve got Darwin (Nunez) and Cody (Gakpo), I’ve got Mo (Mohamed Salah). “
So all the strikers are on the pitch but maybe in the first 10 minutes I might have changed someone and brought Wata on, but very few managers do that. “
Maybe I made the wrong decision not to play him from the start, that’s what should be said! But we never know.
“But we beat Newcastle at home and we played better in the second half at Newcastle with the same players, so there is a reason behind the line-ups.”