Slot's Struggles Extend Even Deeper for Red Bulls
Liverpool’s top four hopes have taken another dent thanks to late drama against Tottenham, with a third last-gasp equaliser adding to the five injury-time winners that have gone in their net this season
The ends have not justified the means. Arne Slot was considering the various ways he has tried to protect leads this season. He brought on Joe Gomez against Fulham , he remembered.
The result? “We conceded”. Then there was the method that worked last year, of using Wataru Endo “to have that midfielder that picks up all the second balls”.
Yet, in each of the first two times he brought the Japanese on as a defensive impact substitute, they conceded. That ploy was abandoned. Slot has gone for the counter-intuitive approach.
“I've done attacker-for-attacker substitution, not to bring a defender in,” he said. “We've tried many things but the way we are conceding goals is also constantly different. It hasn't led yet to us not conceding in the last minute.
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