Liverpool's Dutch manager Arne Slot looks on after the English Premier League football match between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Liverpool at the Molineux stadium in Wolverhampton, central England on March 3, 2026. The match ended Wolverhampton Wanderers 2 Liverpool 1 (Photo by Darren Staples / AFP via Getty Images)placeholder image
Liverpool's Dutch manager Arne Slot looks on after the English Premier League football match between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Liverpool at the Molineux stadium in Wolverhampton, central England on March 3, 2026. The match ended Wolverhampton Wanderers 2 Liverpool 1 (Photo by Darren Staples / AFP via Getty Images) | AFP via Getty Images
Liverpool suffered a 2-1 loss against Wolves in the Premier League and missed out on a chance to bolster their Champions League qualification hopes.
Arne Slot bemoaned Liverpool’s dearth of attacking threat as they sank to their latest stoppage-time defeat against Wolves.
Liverpool were listless throughout the encounter, with Wolves goalkeeper Jose Sa scarcely troubled. And while the home side barely packed a punch, they took advantage of a rare opportunity in the 78th minute which was finished by Rodrigo Gomes.
Despite Mo Salah equalising five minutes later, the Reds’ vulnerability to conceding late goals haunted them yet again, with Andre’s shot deflected off Joe Gomez and leaving Liverpool stopper Alisson Becker helpless.
It was the seventh time this season Slot’s troops have dropped points during injury-time - with five of those games ending in defeat.
Speaking at his post-match press conference, Slot suggested that Liverpool’s cutting edge was their downfall as his troops failed to move six points above Chelsea in the race for Champions League qualification.
Anfield supremo Slot said: “How do I sum this up? Same old story. Recently, we are picking up points because we score many times from set-pieces, but what didn’t change in the last five, six seven games is that we struggle and find it very hard to score from open play chances that we do create.
“Not as much as I would like from all the ball possession we have but enough and far more than the other team. But the end result is we scored one and they scored two and another one in injury time so it sums up our season again.
“We have had far more possession than the other team, we have created more in open play in general than the other team but have struggled to score from open play.
“Recently, we have scored a lot from set-pieces. Again, we had a lot of set-pieces but in the first half were very poorly taken. I don’t think we played a very good first half, the second half was better, still not great but better. We created more, and the just before injury time we were twice very close from chances to make it 2-1.
“Mo was dribbling and had, to the left and right, two players open but the ball was intercepted by their defender and there was the Virgil [van Dijk] header, and the one we conceded wasn’t even a chance.
“That has happened to us so many times this season. That it happened in injury time may be a coincidence, although it has happened so many times. We hardly gave away a chance today, we gave away one chance and conceded two.”
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