Following the international break, there were suggestions that Liverpool’s squad may have been hampered by travel and fatigue, having just returned from their respective national teams. However, the 23-year-old midfielder was quick to shut down any attempts to justify the performance through external factors, insisting that the squad must take full responsibility for the defeat.
"This cannot be an excuse, they were also in the national team in the same way, and they also played matches in the same way," Szoboszlai told reporters. "If you are not ready, then say so and then you start on the bench. The fact that a person is tired, or that we have to play at 12:45, or that this is an FA Cup match, these are all excuses. I think the better team won, of course it showed, we should have decided the match in the first half because we had our chances."