{"id":30098,"date":"2025-12-04T12:04:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=30098"},"modified":"2025-12-04T12:04:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:04:21","slug":"liverpool-fear-factor-gone-admits-slot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=30098","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool fear factor gone, admits Slot"},"content":{"rendered":"
Liverpool boss Arne Slot conceded his side have lost their fear factor during a miserable run as Sunderland emerged with a 1-1 draw at Anfield on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The Premier League champions have now failed to win in three consecutive home games and needed a Nordi Mukiele own goal to rescue a point against the Black Cats.<\/p>\n

Sunderland were on course for their first win at Anfield since 1983 when Chemsdine Talbi’s deflected strike opened the scoring.<\/p>\n

Even after Mukiele deflected Florian Wirtz’s effort into his own net for the equaliser, Wilson Isidor wasted a huge chance to snatch all three points for the visitors when his shot was cleared off the line by Federico Chiesa in stoppage time.<\/p>\n

Since winning their opening five league games of the season, Liverpool have won just two of their last nine.<\/p>\n

“Teams that play us now think they can get a result,” said Slot. “Not only think because that has been shown this season.<\/p>\n

“Even the games we have won, we have fuelled the confidence for other teams that something is possible because the wins we had weren’t easy ones as well.”<\/p>\n

Any hope that a corner had been turned in Sunday’s 2-0 victory at West Ham was quickly dispelled for Slot.<\/p>\n

Mohamed Salah was left on the bench for the second consecutive game, but Wirtz and Alexander Isak again failed to deliver on their price tags of over \u00a3100 million.<\/p>\n

Salah was introduced at the start of the second period, but also struggled to make an impact against Sunderland’s well-organised defence.<\/p>\n

“I knew before the game Sunderland is a hard team to score against, hard team to create chances against,” added Slot.<\/p>\n

“A game where we didn’t concede a lot or create a lot and were really unlucky with the goal we conceded. It was a deflection and could have gone anywhere but in the period we are in, it went in.”<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Liverpool boss Arne Slot conceded his side have lost their fear factor during a miserable run as Sunderland emerged with a 1-1 draw at Anfield on Wednesday. The Premier League champions have now failed to win in three consecutive home games and needed a Nordi Mukiele own goal to rescue a point against the Black […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}