{"id":392786,"date":"2026-03-19T06:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T06:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/392786\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T06:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T06:58:08","slug":"steven-gerrard-has-one-big-question-despite-arne-slots-perfect-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/392786\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Gerrard has one &#8216;big question&#8217; despite Arne Slot&#8217;s &#8216;perfect night&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Gerrard and Steve McManaman questioned why Liverpool cannot show the same \u2018intensity\u2019 in the Premier League after they eased past Galatasaray in the Champions League round of 16.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/liverpool\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Liverpool<\/strong><\/a> were beaten 1-0 in the first leg, on what was a hugely frustrating night for Arne Slot. But they blew Galatasaray away in the return leg at Anfield, winning 4-0 to comfortably set up a thrilling quarter-final clash against holders Paris Saint-Germain.<\/p>\n<p>Dominik Szoboszlai was once again the star of the show, superbly scoring Liverpool\u2019s opener before winning a penalty in first-half stoppage time.<\/p>\n<p>Mohamed Salah tried to dink his spot-kick down the middle but saw it saved, though Liverpool did take the lead in the tie early in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Szoboszlai, Alexis Mac Allister and Salah were all involved in a great move that gave Hugo Ekitike a simple finish.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Gravenberch joined him on the scoresheet just two minutes later, while Salah netted a trademark curling effort on his left foot not long afterwards.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/maresca-to-rosenior-next-man-utd-and-liverpool-in-10-manager-downgrades\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maresca to Rosenior next? Man Utd and Liverpool in 10 manager downgrades<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reacting to Liverpool\u2019s performance on <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tntsports.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">TNT Sports<\/a>, Ally McCoist said: \u201cAbsolutely different level tonight. I can\u2019t remember watching a game at this level where a team has dominated from start to finish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiverpool, some brilliant goals, could\u2019ve, should\u2019ve, been more. A perfect, perfect night for Arne Slot and Liverpool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool legend Gerrard added:\u00a0\u201cVery dominant, excellent from start to finish. Great individual performances throughout the team, fantastic goals, exciting, a different intensity, a different speed of play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTactically spot on, a perfect night really for Arne Slot and the team. The big question is, why can\u2019t we see that more consistently?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fellow former Liverpool star McManaman urged Liverpool to continue putting in such high-quality displays.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/feature-worst-player-every-premier-league-club\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Martinelli, Kolo Muani, Elanga: Worst player at every Premier League club in 2025\/26<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you see Galatasaray\u2019s record away from Istanbul, you know they were weak. I don\u2019t want to be disrespectful, but as much as Liverpool were excellent, I thought they were awful,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiverpool could have won 8, 9, 10-0 today, and no one would have batted an eyelid. It was a really good game for Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo come, beat these comfortably, get them out the way and move forward\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut as Steven rightly said, where was that intensity three days ago [against Tottenham]? We want that intensity [on] Saturday morning [against Brighton], if you\u2019re a Liverpool fan. And then we\u2019ll wait and judge them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t just turn it on and turn if off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/will-the-premier-league-earn-a-fifth-champions-league-place-again-for-next-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Premier League still set for fifth Champions League place next season despite last-16 woes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steven Gerrard and Steve McManaman questioned why Liverpool cannot show the same \u2018intensity\u2019 in the Premier League after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2221,9,10,18,13,14,793,6,19,17,11,12,1009,15,16,5,30183,7,8,5279],"class_list":{"0":"post-392786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-arne-slot","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-front-page","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-liverpool","21":"tag-main-news","22":"tag-mainnews","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-steven-gerrard","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-topstories","27":"tag-uncategorized"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116254547091991193","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392786","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=392786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}