Arne Slot says Liverpool have an 'even bigger problem' after Brighton loss that 'hurts a lot'
Liverpool fell to a 2-1 loss against Brighton which was a 10th Premier League defeat of the season.
Arne Slot suggested that Liverpool's loss to Brighton & Hove Albion was not as damaging as their draw against Tottenham Hotspur.
The Reds' hopes of Champions League qualification took a knock with a 2-1 loss against the Seagulls on the south coast.
Liverpool were in action just 62 hours after the their 4-0 win over Galatasaray to reach the quarter-finals of the European Cup. But they could not back it up against Brighton, with the Reds dropping points for a third successive Premier League game - and a 10th reverse of the season. In their previous top-flight fixture, Liverpool conceded a 90th-minute goal to be held to a 1-1 draw against Spurs at Anfield.
Asked about picking the Liverpool players up amid inconsistent results, the head coach replied: “Yeah, that is not easy, although we had a big win [against Galatasaray] during the week. I think you cannot compare Brighton away with Wolves away.
“You cannot compare a game that we should have won in terms of chance creation and every other metric there is in football to a game like here. Brighton away, that's a difficult game for any team, [not just] for us, but for any team to go here, especially if you miss out like us on a few very influential players. We're talking about the No.9 position but again I had to make a substitution and a full-back position with a player that's not used to playing there. Of course, now looking at the league table, this loss hurts a lot and it should hurt us a lot.
But the main problem is that we are in this position because we dropped points at Wolves in the last minute with a deflected shot a week ago – not a week ago because we had to play on Sunday, not on Saturday, but Sunday and then Wednesday and then Saturday. Not as all the other Champions League teams [are] playing on Sunday, but we had to play on Saturday in the early kick-off. That goal last week [against Tottenham] in the 90th minute is, I would say, even a bigger problem than losing away at Brighton.”