Arne Slot served the second a part of his two-game home touchline ban this afternoon as Liverpool got here from behind to beat Southampton 3-1, though he was allowed to handle his gamers on the interval – and it was simply as effectively!
The Reds went in at half-time reeling from the sucker punch of a Will Smallbone purpose because the Saints midfielder pounced on a uncommon mix-up between Alisson Becker and Virgil van Dijk to interrupt the impasse and provides the Premier League’s backside membership a shock lead.
It appeared inevitable that the house gamers can be in for a little bit of a dressing down from the pinnacle coach, and so it proved.
Slot let rip at Liverpool gamers at half-time
Mo Salah revealed after the match that Slot let his Liverpool aspect know in no unsure phrases that he was removed from pleased with what he witnessed from the stands within the first half.
When requested if the gamers received an interval rollocking, the Egytian replied (through liverpoolfc.com): “[There was] a little bit of frustration. The supervisor, his head, was like going for us – however that’s one thing you want typically.
“First half, the sport was sloppy, we simply had been gradual and taking our time and within the final minute they managed to [go ahead in] the sport. However we are actually extra skilled, we will handle that scenario and I’m glad that we did.”
Slot’s half-time message clearly received by means of to the gamers!
Even permitting for Liverpool having a fiendishly robust Champions League sport away to Paris Saint-Germain lower than 72 hours beforehand, the Reds had been unacceptably off-colour within the first half towards Southampton, and there was no excuse for the misundertstanding which led to Smallbone’s purpose.
LFC already had such a snug lead on the high of the Premier League that dropped factors wouldn’t have felt overly detrimental to their pursuit of the title, however failing to win at house to the division’s backside aspect (who’ve gained simply two top-flight video games all season) would’ve been fairly sobering.
Fortunately the gamers gave Slot the response that he would’ve demanded at half-time, with Darwin Nunez equalising and Salah changing two penalties to take him into outright third place within the membership’s all-time goalscoring charts.
The Liverpool head coach has now served his touchline ban and can be again the place he belongs for our subsequent home fixture, the Carabao Cup remaining towards Newcastle in eight days’ time. Earlier than then, there’s a job to complete towards a removed from gracious PSG outfit on Tuesday!
