Arne Slot Says He ‘must Have Done A Lot Wrong’ If Liverpool Fans Are Booing Team

Arne Slot has said that he must person “done a batch of things wrong” for Liverpool fans to boo their team, but he does not consciousness nan Anfield crowd has turned against him earlier a important Champions League necktie against Galatasaray.

Slot believes nan glum temper astir nan Premier League champions tin beryllium transformed by overturning a 1-0 deficit successful nan past 16 and reaching nan quarter-finals astatine nan Turkish club’s expense.

Liverpool were booed disconnected aft conceding different costly precocious goal against Tottenham connected Sunday, erstwhile Dominik Szoboszlai admitted nan squad were being affected by fans leaving nan stadium early. Slot disputes nan vexation was aimed squarely astatine him.

“It’s ne'er bully that they are disappointment because usually fans are not disappointment aft you win,” said Slot, who expects Ibrahima Konaté to return having missed nan Spurs crippled pinch a hamstring problem. “So first of each you’re disappointment yourself and disappointed we haven’t won. Second of all, group told maine erstwhile I first came present that if it [the booing] was towards maine … this nine is different than different clubs and nan fans will support nan head for specified a agelong time.

“So if it’s existent what you’re saying – and I don’t consciousness this astatine each – past I must person done a batch of things incorrect and that’s ne'er a bully emotion to have. Being successful a nine that’s ever truthful supportive of nan manager, successful bully and bad times, if they are not happy pinch maine past apparently I’ve done truthful galore things incorrect and that’s ne'er a bully emotion to have. But I cognize really nan shot manufacture works. Winning tin alteration a lot. That’s what we are trying to execute tomorrow. And we’re wholly fresh for that, I tin show you.”

Slot did not spell into nan specifics of his mistakes but insisted that, successful position of work-rate and chance creation, Liverpool stay superior to astir opponents. “I did thing incorrect successful nan play we won nan convention and I decidedly did make a fewer decisions that were not cleanable successful hindsight. But each nan decisions I’ve made I’ve ever made for nan aforesaid reason; to thief america to effort to triumph nan game.

“I tin opportunity astatine this nine and each nan different clubs I’ve worked, 80%-90% of nan games I’ve managed my teams person outworked nan different teams and my teams person created much chances than nan different team.”

Liverpool person been beaten doubly by Galatasaray this season, connected some occasions astatine a raucous Rams Park, but Slot believes nan imaginable of a quarter-final spot against Paris Saint-Germain aliases Chelsea tin animate a different result astatine Anfield. “We consciousness nan value of this game,” nan caput coach said.

“We are capable to scope nan quarter-final of nan Champions League. That would beryllium typical for maine arsenic it would beryllium my first time. It would beryllium typical for each of us. We tin ne'er return a Champions League quarter-final for granted nary matter really often this nine has done it successful nan past.”