No mercy! After Liverpool lost, Slot puts pressure on new players in the summer window

In the 6th round of the Premier League, Liverpool lost to Crystal Palace 1-2, but had no choice but to lose the first defeat in the season. After the game, Liverpool coach Slott made implicit criticism of a defender when he talked about the end of the team's victory momentum. Slott said that someone was still thinking about attacking at the last moment, which led to the team being finally defeated. According to the analysis of the British media Daily Mail, Slott was talking about Flynnon.

Nketia's goal in stoppage time brought Liverpool's five-game winning streak to abruptly and ensured that Crystal Palace became the only team in the Premier League to remain unbeaten. When talking about how Crystal Palace tear the Liverpool defense line at the end of the game, Slott said that "one of our players" left the defensive position without authorization and prepared to participate in the counterattack.

"We can only blame ourselves, our defensive style..." Slot, who was obviously frustrated, said after the game. "One of our players decided to rush out because he wanted to participate in the counterattack, but it was meaningless because the game time was up."

Slot did not specifically name which player left the defensive position. But judging from the Liverpool player position at that time, Salah was the only one in the team who did not appear in the penalty area, while Flynnon was responsible for defending Nketia. The latter was in front of Nketia while defending, hoping that the ball would fall under his feet, but the forward was finally in an unmarked state and completed the final kill.

"At that time, we only needed to defend, maybe we were too biased to attack. At that moment, there was a player who was too biased to attack, which led to them scoring the winning goal and we lost the game."

Slott added: "Only one team deserves victory, and that is Crystal Palace. They scored more than two set pieces. They could have scored more goals, they created a lot of opportunities through counterattacks and open attacks. So the problem is not just defensive set pieces."

Flynnon was a new player introduced from Leverkusen in the summer window, with a transfer fee of 40 million euros. After joining the team, Flynnon was affected by injury and had a low attendance rate, only 1 goal was scored in the Community Shield. In fact, Liverpool's new players generally performed poorly in this game. Isaac missed all three shots, Werz scored 0 goals and 0 assists in 6 consecutive games, while Korkoz played the whole game, but the score was the lowest in the team. For Slott, he needs to find ways to fully integrate these new players into the team.