Liverpool were held to a 1-1 draw against Burnley in the Premier League.
Arne Slot told of his frustration that Liverpool’s draw against Burnley did not allow the development of three summer signings to be highlighted.
The Reds had to settle for a 1-1 stalemate with the 19th-placed Clarets at Anfield. Liverpool monopolised possession and missed a penalty through Dominik Szoboszlai before Florian Wirtz - purchased for £100 million - broke the deadlock three minutes before half-time.
But the Reds failed to add to their lead in the second period and were duly punished, with Marcus Edwards equalising for Burnley on 65 minutes. And Slot’s troops were unable to regain their advantage - and have now drawn with all three newly-promoted teams at Anfield this term. As a result, sections of fans booed at the full-time whistle.
Wirtz netted his third goal for Liverpool, while full-backs Milos Kerkez and Jeremie Frimpong posed threats down each flank. And despite the Reds going 12 matches unbeaten, Slot insisted that standards should be significantly higher.
Speaking at his post-match press conference, the Liverpool head coach said: “We just spoke about frustration. I think we all have a lot of frustration about the result, sometimes it’s also a bit of a frustration for me that all the development some players are going through is not being seen because the results don’t show how the development of the team and individual players is. You are talking about Milos and I completely agree – he had another good game. I saw Florian scoring another great goal and he was involved in a lot of other moments as well. Jeremie Frimpong, another good game of him – a big, big, big threat on that right side.
But results don’t always reflect development and that’s, I would almost say, another frustration because it is also hard for the players to feel that we are improving, to feel that they are improving, if results are not as we want them to be. Of course, we can talk now about 12 [games] in a row without a loss but our standards are higher than not losing. Our standards are winning every game.”
On the performance overall, Slot said: “Not for the first time, frustrating. They come in different fashions: sometimes it is that we are scoring a goal in extra time, so you expect to win the game and then you concede another goal in extra time. I think these games we’ve played quite a lot during the phase where we lost a few games where we were the team that created much more chances than the team we faced, but then we were losing those games. Then we started to become a team that was a bit more careful in conceding chances and that led to the fact that it made it also more difficult to create a lot and as a result of that we’ve been in a run of games where we haven’t lost.
“I think today was a game which I like to see, a team that even for our standards [had] more ball possession than we usually have, generating a lot of chances from that ball possession. Usually if you take a bit more risk that comes with the other team counter-attacking you a few times and we controlled that really well. But in football one team can have two chances – there was almost an own goal from us – and score one goal and the other team can have multiple chances and score one goal as well and you get the result we got today.”
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