Press conference: Arne Slots verdict on Liverpool’s win at Girona and Alisson’s return

In maintaining the 100 percent record in the Champions League…

If you ask me after all the six games, I’m very happy with all the results, I’m very happy in the five (other) games with the way we played. I’m really pleased with the performance tonight.

What he didn’t like about Liverpool’s performance…

A lot, but two things in particular. When you play against a team that has such a good idea of ​​football and knows how to get the ball out from the back – like some other teams we’ve faced recently like (Manchester) City or Real Madrid – you have to You be so intense when you want to make things difficult for them. But if you wait a few seconds before pressing every time you press, and when you press you can so easily outperform, then this team can cause you a lot of problems. They showed that throughout the Champions League campaign, except (against) PSV Eindhoven away.

They almost feel sorry for themselves because they deserve so much more in this Champions League campaign than the three points they have so far. But we have an incredible goalkeeper. The other part was every time we lost the ball we weren’t aggressive enough. Every time we lost the ball. Hardly any controls anywhere in the game; Maybe the second half was a little better, but then I try to be positive.

On the difference in the second half…

Maybe the first five or ten minutes they went one or two more times. As is often the case this season, when a team plays us, they do something different than any other game. We could see this as a compliment to what we have done so far and the quality of our players. But they played without nine, a bit similar to (Bayer) Leverkusen. So it wasn’t always easy for us to press them well. But I don’t think it has so much to do with tactics because if it’s just tactics, how you have to defend, then it’s when they have the ball, when they bring the ball out from the back. But if we lose the ball and they could go all the way to our goal, that tells me that in general we weren’t nearly aggressive enough without the ball. Perhaps the thing that helped us the most was that we scored from a penalty.