See a abstract of what Slot informed reporters post-match under.
On the sport…
I feel we made numerous development in comparison with final week. I’ve to offer numerous credit score to the gamers, how exhausting they labored. I’ve to offer numerous credit score to our followers, how they helped us tonight to execute our sport plan. And meaning if we’ve a excessive press, it is so useful if there are followers behind you to maintain on pushing you. That’s what they did. Unfortunately it is one of many many examples of this season the place we weren’t in a position to rating from the various possibilities we had. Again, we had been so underperforming by way of xG and that’s simply an ongoing factor with us all through the entire season. And add to that, it appears to be a foul harm [to Hugo Ekitike] – we do not know [for] certain but. Add to that one other intervention of the VAR, which went not in our favour and that is additionally not for the primary time this season.
Then after all we’re very disillusioned as a result of I feel there have been elements within the second half the place you can simply really feel, ‘If we are able to rating now that is going to turn out to be a particular night time.’ But the longer term seems to be very vivid for this staff, for this membership as a result of we have proven that we are able to compete with the champions of Europe in our stadium, to be the dominant staff – not many groups will be dominant towards Paris Saint-Germain and generate so many possibilities as we did. But yeah, possibilities is one factor, scoring is a second.
On the choice to overturn the penalty awarded for Liverpool within the second half…
I feel in all probability final week we had an excessive amount of luck and we ran out of luck right this moment. Last week, there have been additionally two incidents the place we would have been a bit fortunate, though the primary one which was overturned by the VAR there was clearly no contact and the ball was performed. The second one may have been a penalty however in the event you do not give it as a referee then I do not suppose your VAR ought to overturn it. Today, for my part, I’ve conceded just a few of those penalties this season and I may title all of them for you – beginning with Brentford away and Leeds away, the place sure, there’s contact however you’d by no means give a penalty for this. But if a penalty has been given, normally VAR tells you, ‘I see contact’ after which the choice needs to be the on-field determination. I wasn’t stunned that this went towards us, nevertheless it’s not the story of the sport.
On his substitution of Joe Gomez after bringing him on at half-time and the newest on Ekitike’s harm…
He [Gomez] wasn’t injured however I needed to make a special substitution after which he mentioned to me, ‘I’m not satisfied if I can hold sprinting. I really feel somewhat bit. So, I feel it is higher to go off and to not take the chance.’ So yeah, then I feel that will’ve been my fourth substitution, so then to maintain somebody on that may get injured is rarely a sensible factor. I needed to change the substitution. And Hugo, I feel all of us noticed within the video and the clips that it would not look good. [It was] 88 minutes till tonight we may play with Florian [Wirtz], Alex [Isak] and Hugo. We added 27, 28 to that tonight and I might be stunned if we are able to add just a few extra minutes to that this season. But the great factor is Alex is again.
