{"id":474625,"date":"2025-10-04T23:39:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T23:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/474625\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T23:39:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T23:39:36","slug":"salah-and-isak-will-click-insists-slot-after-liverpool-slip-to-third-defeat-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/474625\/","title":{"rendered":"Salah and Isak will click, insists Slot after Liverpool slip to third defeat | Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arne Slot insisted that Mohamed Salah and Alexander Isak would develop an understanding in attack, speaking after Liverpool\u2019s stoppage-time defeat by Chelsea<\/a> meant they relinquished top spot to Arsenal.<\/p>\n

Salah and Isak were disappointing as the champions fell to their third successive defeat in all competitions but Slot is confident that his big-name forwards will improve once they get to know each other.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe more they play together the more they will connect,\u201d the Liverpool<\/a> manager said. \u201cYou have to work really hard to reach a certain level and then it\u2019s very hard in football because you also play against very good teams to keep that level going. What I mean by that is consistency. But it\u2019s clear that we had our changes in the summer. Players came in different moments.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast week there\u2019s hardly been any training time. Still we need to try to bring these players in. If the result would have been better today with a draw or a win then we would have had a great start to the season if you take into account everything that happened in the summer in Liverpool.\u201d<\/p>\n

Slot, who had to rejig his defence after Ibrahima Konat\u00e9 went off with a thigh injury in the second half, defended Salah\u2019s wayward finishing. \u201cWhat I like is that we brought him many times in the position he would like to be in,\u201d the Dutchman said. \u201cAnd I would like him to be in because he\u2019s shown in his career and since I\u2019m here that in those positions he can score goals.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had many opportunities to do what he\u2019s done so often. He\u2019s a human being and it\u2019s not like every chance he gets is always a goal. We feel sometimes it is because of what he\u2019s done last season.\u201d<\/p>\n

Liverpool host Manchester United after the international break and Slot believes better finishing would have stopped his side from losing at Chelsea<\/a> and Crystal Palace. \u201cIn both games we\u2019ve created more chances than the team we have faced but the truth is that we have only scored once in both games and our opponent has scored twice,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Chelsea led through Mois\u00e9s Caicedo\u2019s early goal and it seemed they would have to settle for a point when Cody Gakpo equalised. But Enzo Maresca\u2019s side moved up to sixth when Est\u00eav\u00e3o Willian, the Brazilian teenager, popped up in the 95th minute to score his first goal in English football.<\/p>\n

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Est\u00eav\u00e3o\u2019s intervention sparked wild scenes and led to Maresca receiving a second yellow card for his celebrations. Chelsea\u2019s head coach will serve a touchline ban when his team visit Nottingham Forest.<\/p>\n

Willy Caballero, Maresca\u2019s assistant, was left to conduct post-match media duties. \u201cHe\u2019s OK,\u201d Caballero said of Maresca. \u201cHe cannot be here because of the red card. He wanted me to praise the players because of the effort they have done today. We deserved the victory because of the chances we created.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arne Slot insisted that Mohamed Salah and Alexander Isak would develop an understanding in attack, speaking after Liverpool\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-474625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115318539328744789","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}