‘Trent did not play his finest sport’ says Slot earlier than EFL Cup tie

January 7, 2025Trending News

Liverpool supervisor Arne Slot says Trent Alexander-Arnold is able to face Tottenham within the EFL Cup semi-final first leg on Wednesday after his poor exhibiting towards Manchester United.

Alexander-Arnold has been linked with a transfer to Actual Madrid this month and was out of kinds in Sunday’s thrilling 2-2 draw at Anfield.

However Slot says the entire squad are prepared to reply towards Tottenham and highlighted their wonderful season up to now.

He stated: “I feel we had been all dissatisfied [about Sunday’s draw with Manchester United] not solely Trent Alexander-Arnold, we had been all dissatisfied.

“To begin with concerning the end result. Elements of our sport we weren’t utterly pleased with. It wasn’t solely Trent, there have been extra issues we might have accomplished higher.

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“Trent didn’t play his finest sport, however some others additionally didn’t play their finest.

“In the event you play 50, 60 video games in a season, one among them received’t be your finest efficiency. Possibly we should always spotlight that these gamers are taking part in so properly regardless of taking part in two video games in per week.

“I feel it can profit each participant [not just Trent Alexander-Arnold – to play again tomorrow]. All people desires to play. Virtually all of them are match.”

Liverpool have misplaced simply as soon as all season in all competitions below Slot – to Nottingham Forest – and have received a outstanding 23 of 28 matches up to now.

They received the EFL Cup for a file tenth time final season and go into Wednesday’s match at Tottenham as favourites to retain it.

Like Alexander-Arnold, Mo Salah and Virgil van Dijk are out of contract this summer time however Slot says they continue to be targeted on successful.

“If Mohamed Salah misses a penalty towards Actual Madrid he’s distracted by his ‘contract scenario’”, Slot stated.

“If Trent doesn’t play properly he’s distracted by his ‘contract scenario’.

“If everyone performs properly, no person is distracted by their ‘contract distraction’.

“I’m not targeted on social media posts or what persons are saying. In the event you do this as Liverpool supervisor you should have no life, as a result of persons are all the time speaking about us.”