Arne Slot insists he remained committed to attacking football as Liverpool head coach
Arne Slot saw his side concede late on to draw at Fulham
Arne Slot saw his side concede late on to draw at Fulham(Image: CameraSport via Getty Images)
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Arne Slot insists he remains committed to attacking football as Liverpool boss after a 2-2 draw with Fulham extended their unbeaten run to nine games in all competitions.
After Harry Wilson had opened the scoring with the only shot on target in the first half at Craven Cottage, the Reds replied through Florian Wirtz after the break before a stoppage-time effort from Cody Gakpo looked to have sealed the points for the Premier League champions.
However, Harrison Reed scored a stunning goal in the final seconds to give Marco Silva's men a point and after struggling to break down a stubborn Leeds United on New Year's Day before a second successive draw of 2026, Slot - whose Liverpool side have scored just 32 times in 19 games - denies his team are lacking a spark in the final third.
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"Do you think we created more when we were conceding more goals? I wonder if that is true," Slot said. "Like I said, I would love to create five times as many chances as we do now and not concede a chance at all.
"But I do know the time we were playing either with different players or more open that I don't think we created that many more chances but we conceded much more. Unfortunately, we don't concede a lot of chances in terms of chances but goal-wise, maybe not a lot of chances.
"I didn't change as a manager, I would love to play with eight attackers if that's possible defensively but if those eight attackers don't defend enough, it's hard to win a game of football."
Slot added: "I don't completely agree with you (about not creating) but it's not that we had chance after chance. That's obvious.
"I see a lot of football, when we went in here, I saw a game of football, hardly conceded a chance from both ends in the first half.
"This is how the Premier League usually works; I think in the second half it becomes a bit more open and there are more chances, more moments where you create chances.
"We're not the exception to that. I think we had a few good moments in the first half where we were close to creating or we did create.
"I can remember a cross that Curtis Jones was close to scoring [from], I can remember a shot from Cody Gakpo deflected and a one-on-one with the goalkeeper from Cody Gakpo.
"I would love to create more but if you play with the amount of midfielders we played with and one attacker against a 5-4-1 of Fulham in an away game, I don't know if you can expect then us creating chance after chance.
"Overall, I think we've created enough chances to win the game and we did very well by limiting them to maybe one, one and a half chances, but the end result is still 2-2 and that's what it is about in football."
Liverpool return to action, and London, on Thursday when they face leaders Arsenal at the Emirates.