{"id":282382,"date":"2026-01-13T18:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/282382\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T18:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:12:07","slug":"robertson-on-szoboszlai-disrespect-it-was-unacceptable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/282382\/","title":{"rendered":"Robertson on Szoboszlai ‘Disrespect’: ‘It Was Unacceptable’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool may have extended their unbeaten run to 11 matches with an FA Cup<\/a> win over Barnsley but that has not fooled defender Andy Robertson<\/a> who admitted performances have to improve in the second half of the season.<\/b><\/p>\n

Comfortable at 2-0 until Dominik Szoboszlai<\/a>\u2018s display of arrogance in his own six-yard box gifted the visitors a goal, it took two late strikes from Florian Wirtz<\/a> and Hugo Ekitike<\/a> \u2013 who cost a combined \u00a3195m in the summer \u2013 to make the game safe.<\/p>\n

Letting opponents back into games has been a common theme this season for the defending Premier League<\/a> champions and Robertson said that is something which has to be stopped.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think the performance was overly great. We showed moments of really good individual quality, but we\u2019ve got to play a lot better than that if we want to go further in this competition,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"LIVERPOOL,<\/p>\n

\u201cGoing 11 unbeaten is good [but] some of the performances still have to be better.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got the draws against Leeds<\/a>, Sunderland<\/a> \u2013 games you\u2019re expected to win \u2013 but there was the draw at Arsenal<\/a>, a win at San Siro [against Inter Milan].<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve stopped the bad form but we need to still lift the levels of performance. Everyone knows that and that\u2019s what we\u2019re working towards.\u201d<\/p>\n

After nine defeats in 12 matches during October and November, the priority was to stop the rot and make the team more difficult to beat.<\/p>\n

But the criticism now is that Arne Slot<\/a>\u2018s side are dominating games but not taking their chances.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve looked a bit more secure defensively which is pleasing but now we need to put it all together because people are saying we\u2019re lacking an attacking threat,\u201d added Robertson.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to now get both because at the start of the season we were really good going forward but probably a little bit too open at the back. Now we\u2019ve kind of reversed it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want to win trophies and go further in tournaments, you have to get the perfect balance and that\u2019s what we\u2019re working towards.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"LIVERPOOL,<\/p>\n

Robertson admitted Szoboszlai had received some choice words from his team-mates at half-time after his crazy backheel allowed Adam Phillips to score but he said the Hungary captain had banked plenty of credit as their best player this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe frustrating thing is Dom does this unbelievable 60-yard sprint to start with, he\u2019s getting the clap off The Kop and I don\u2019t know if that maybe went to his head,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can joke about it now but it\u2019s unacceptable to lose a goal like that. Dom obviously knows that. He\u2019s been magnificent for us this season and he was again really good.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe just had a lapse of concentration, and we can\u2019t afford too many of them in the six-yard box.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool may have extended their unbeaten run to 11 matches with an FA Cup win over Barnsley but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[84593,2305,18,19,17,142182,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-282382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-andy-robertson","9":"tag-dominik-szoboszlai","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-liverpool-vs-barnsley","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115889147928048720","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}