**Arne Slot**shared his thoughts on the emotional impact of another defeat for Liverpool.
The Reds have lost seven of their last seven Premier League fixtures, and they suffered a 4-1 defeat against PSV Eindhoven, their second beatdown at **Anfield**in the space of four days. The pressure is piling on the head coach, who is committed to making a change and keeping the camp together.
“I think it is a shock for everyone. For the players, for the journalists in here, for me, for everyone. This is a shock and it’s very unexpected if you look at the quality we have. Is it a lack of confidence?
“I didn’t see that in the first half. Of course, it is hard if after losing 3-0, straight into this game you concede a goal. I saw the mentality these players have shown so many times since I am here, came back in a way you would like to come back, created chances, we kept them in their half – and after another setback by conceding the 2-1, I also saw us creating chances again to score the 2-2.
“But, in the end of the game, it affected maybe one or two players that we were 3-1 and 4-1 down.
“I don’t think it’s important if [a possible sacking] is fair or not. But that it’s normal: I understand. If any manager around the world loses football games, let alone as many as we have lost, it’s normal that people have an opinion about that and if that is fair or not fair, that’s for other people to judge. But that it’s normal, I think it is that if you lose so many times that people start talking about that.
“I see enough moments that players show their quality but it doesn’t reflect in the score or in the results, that is clear. But no, I am not worried – what I mean with that is that my focus is on other things than worrying about my own position.
“I try to analyse [and] try to help the players as much as I can, and it is obvious that I don’t do it in the way that I did it last season because when you talk about individual errors, I think that is also something that comes from a team effort. So, again, I need to do better and that is what I am trying to do every single day, to improve the team, and that is where my main focus is, to be honest.
“The focus is, as always in football, mainly about trying to prepare them for the next game and preparing them is not only tactically, that could also mean that I need to have individual conversations tomorrow or team conversations with players.
“I try to put as much effort in as I can to improve the situation – not only me, by the way, my staff does the same and the players are putting in a lot, a lot, a lot of effort as well. Although when you look at a 3-0 loss and a 4-1 loss you tend to feel as if we don’t do enough, but again today I saw a team that was trying after multiple setbacks but unfortunately not able to get a result.”