Arne slot reveals a message of halftime compared to Southampton – I had to create anger

Slot Arne admitted that Liverpool’s appearance in the first half against Southampton was a “warning sign” because he had to “create anger” in the locker room on vacation.

By occupying Will Smallbone’s extra goal after misunderstanding between Virgil Van Dijka and goalkeeper Alisson Becker, Slot – who watched from the main point of view while serving his last game of his suspension lines – quickly went into correcting the situation.

After issuing his players to increase the pace, he made a triple replacement with Harvey Elliott, Andy Robertson and Alexis Mac Allister who came and immediately changed the dynamics.

In a five-minute space, Darwin Nunez and Mohamed Salah, with the first of two penalties, revealed things as the Premier League leaders increased their advantage at the top at 16 points before their conflict in the Second Champions League with PSG on Tuesday at Anfield.

Groove Sky Sports: “It was a very bad performance in the first half. Maybe if you see the highlights, you would feel that there were three or four chances, but we were not in the game at all and it didn’t surprise me that we received the goal. Especially if you look at the way we acknowledged it, he tells us all about our first half.

“We found a way to win the game in the second half.

“In the media, at my meetings, I made it clear how difficult the game was and that we had to play at different levels of intensity than we played against Paris Saint-Germain. We may get used to that level of intensity we will re-experience on Tuesday. But in the end I had to make some difficult decisions, maybe halfway, to create a certain anger.

“It seemed that this triple replacement at the beginning of the second half was overwhelmed by the team. The three who entered did really well. That’s the first one, but I could see a different attitude from the other eight.

“So, if you look at the first goal, we played the ball to Diaz and suddenly he was on the pace trying to create something, where in the first half he held the ball waiting, waiting, waiting and it was not only for him, but in general.

“And in the second goal you could see Ryan Gravenberch pushed, winning the second ball that led to a penalty kick, where they could in the first half every time we fled after crossing the ball.

“I am completely aware of the fact that if you play the season, you cannot play 38 times in the highest intensity or the best possible football you can play. So, sometimes you have to find another way to win the game.

“But today it is, we hope that the first half, because we have already experienced it in Paris in Paris, that the intensity, the way they play, was very high for us that night. And if I compare it to the intensity we played today, it is not one, two, three, five steps, it is probably six or seven or eight steps to the intake of intake.”