Arne Slot spoke about a 4-1 win for **Liverpool**against **Barnsley**in the FA Cup.
The Reds received some self-inflicted damage as a mistake from Dominik Szoboszlai let the visitors halve the deficit at Anfield, but their quality came through to wrap up a spot in the fourth round.
“A good win. That's not the performance, that's the result. We wanted to go into the next round, that's what we did. Four beautiful goals. Shots from outside the box; it's not always easy to unlock a low block, for any team in the world but definitely also not for us. You have a few weapons to do so.
*“Set-pieces, as we see so many times, especially in the Premier League. A shot from outside the box, a one-v-one. We saw today a shot from outside the box and a one-v-one from Jeremie Frimpong. And in the end, we saw with the third one some individual skills from Curtis Jones, Hugo Ekitike and Florian Wirtz which led to a good goal. So yeah, some good goals.*
“It's not the first time - now I'm talking generally - that we are 2-0 up, there's no problems in the game and then we concede a sloppy or easy goal. But this one stands definitely out, even for us, when it is about conceding an easy and sloppy goal.
“If you give away an easy goal, which we have done so many times this season, then it's a big difference in mindset for the other team that are 2-0 down and never have the ball or they are 2-1 and never have the ball because then they do feel, 'Yeah, in the first half when we never had the ball in one moment we could score a goal, so maybe we can do this again.' So, it's definitely not helpful for us.
“Barnsley* can be proud of themselves, how they did and how difficult they made it for us. A game plan that looked very similar to a lot of teams coming here. They always play 4-3-3 and they decided to go with five, which I can understand and which I would have done if I was their manager as well.*
“They made it really difficult for us. So, compliments for their game plan and compliments for the desire they had, the willingness they had to fight for a result. For a long time, they were in the game.”