Liverpool supervisor, Arne Slot, has admitted that it was troublesome to play towards Manchester United’s low block.
Slot was talking to Match of the Day following their 2-1 defeat to United on Sunday.
United took a really early lead by way of Bryan Mbeumo, and though Cody Gakpo made it 1-1 within the second half, it was the guests who discovered the winner by way of Harry Maguire.
The consequence leaves Liverpool 4 factors behind leaders Arsenal after eight fixtures.
“It’s at all times troublesome to play towards a staff that defends in a low block and primarily performs the lengthy ball,” Slot stated.
“It makes it much more troublesome if you go one down after one minute when one in all our gamers is on the ground.
“In the event you would have instructed me earlier than the sport that towards the low block, towards so many lengthy balls, that we’d have created as many probabilities as we did, I might not have anticipated us to lose.
“However that’s what we did. We had sufficient probabilities to attain a couple of aim, however however once more conceding two, and one of many two was from a set piece.”
