Slot pleased with resilient Liverpool as they go high with Brighton win

Arne Slot was delighted with the best way his Liverpool aspect hit again to beat Brighton this afternoon.

The Seagulls bossed the primary half and deservedly led on the break via Ferdi Kadioglu’s effective aim.

However Cody Gakpo equalised with a cross-shot that eluded everybody and went in earlier than Mohamed Salah scored a trademark curling effort to safe the win and transfer the Reds to the highest of the Premier League desk, two factors away from Manchester Metropolis, who had been surprisingly crushed at Bournemouth.

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Slot mentioned: “I feel a number of issues occur throughout a season. Typically you must defend a lead, generally you must come again after going 1-0 behind. So, this can be a win you additionally want in a season the place you need to be aggressive, since you can’t all the time be from the primary till the final second the most effective staff on the pitch. 

“Typically you may have a tough interval after which you could combat again, and that’s what we did. I didn’t ask – I might love them to take action and so they did in the long run – however I didn’t ask them to attain two objectives, I solely requested them to play a special second half than we performed towards Nottingham Forest, with a special mentality – so if issues go towards you, you must present up. 

“Winners all the time do, and fortuitously we’ve got a number of winners in our staff that confirmed up within the second half.”

First half not adequate – Slot

Slot accepted, nonetheless, that repeats of that first-half show will trigger them issues down the road.

“What I do like rather a lot is that final week, two occasions we got here from one aim behind towards Arsenal, 1-0 and 2-1, and two occasions we had been capable of combat ourselves again into the sport [to draw 2-2],” he added. 

“And on this sport we had been 1-0 down at half-time, which I feel we deserved, after which to come back again so sturdy towards such a high quality staff that has spent a lot cash lately, offers me a number of confidence for the remainder of the season.

However I additionally added after the sport to the gamers that 45 minutes of the soccer we performed within the first half will, in the long run, punish you someplace. So we have to present up from the beginning. 

“The gang was unbelievable the second half. Our gamers [too] however our followers as nicely. It was the loudest crowd since I’ve been right here.”

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Golden Gomez

Slot reserved particular reward for Joe Gomez, who got here on at half-time for the injured Ibrahima Konate and turned in a stellar show.

He mentioned: “Yeah, that claims rather a lot about his mentality. That additionally says rather a lot about his high quality, when you don’t play that a lot and also you are available, in a sport the place your teammates had been outplayed for 45 minutes, you could are available and play like this… 

“And it additionally says rather a lot about his mentality in current weeks and months, the place he didn’t play that a lot, however he’s now in a position with out enjoying rather a lot to play 90 minutes on Wednesday and to herald a efficiency like this on Saturday. 

“However that is what folks advised me once I got here in: Joe is a high, high, high skilled who all the time, it doesn’t matter what place he’s in, offers his greatest for the staff and for himself in the long run as nicely. He received the reward for it immediately as a result of I feel the followers cherished what they noticed – I undoubtedly did.”