“I completely understand the frustration,” head coach says
Liverpool coach Arne Slot says he understands the frustrations of fans after his side drew against 19th-placed Burnley at Anfield on Saturday.
Florian Wirtz put Liverpool ahead in the first half after Dominik Szoboszlai had missed a penalty, but Marcus Edwards scored for Burnley in the second half to level the score, before Hugo Ekitike’s apparent winner was ruled out for offside.
“Yeah, in my head it wasn’t booing but in my head it was frustration as well,” Slot said regarding the reaction of the Anfield crowd to the draw.
“So if we are Liverpool and we play against Burnley, who we have to give credit to for defending, clearing balls off the line, all the things you want to see if you are the Burnley manager, trying everything to prevent us scoring.
“But if you, as Liverpool, are not disappointed by having a draw at home to Burnley, then something is completely wrong. I completely understand the frustration. I have the same frustrations, and the players definitely have the same frustrations, as the fans.”
Slot’s team have now gone 12 games unbeaten in all competitions, after losing nine out of 12 in the autumn, but they have also now drawn four Premier League games in a row and Slot has warned recently that they need to start converting unbeaten runs to wins.
“I think these games we have played quite a lot where we are the team creating more than the team we face – but then we were losing those games.
“Then we have started to become a team that was a bit more careful in conceding chances, and that led to the fact that it made it also more difficult to create a lot.
“As a result of that, we have been in a lot of games where we haven’t lost, and I think today was a game where I liked seeing us have even more possession than we would usually have, generating a lot of chances, and usually that comes with, if you take more risk, it comes with the other team counterattacking you, but we controlled that really well.”
