Arne Slot has admitted he expected more from Liverpool this season following the club’s defeat at Wolves.
Liverpool’s disappointing defence of the Premier League title continued after losing to Wolves at Molineux on Tuesday.
The Reds conceded a stoppage-time winner for the fifth time in the Premier League this season, while the win was only 20th-placed Wolves’ third of the league campaign.
Liverpool are fifth in the Premier League table and facing a fight to secure Champions League qualification.
Asked in his post-match press conference whether the club’s expectations had changed following their latest reverse, Slot said his ambitions ‘ave changed throughout the season’ after a below-par campaign.
“My expectations have changed throughout the season because I expected more from us than where we are fighting for now. But it’s another setback and we didn’t help ourselves with this result, not at all.
“But there are still eight [Premier League] games to play so we are coming closer and closer to the end and then dropping points in a game where it’s absolutely not necessary if you look at the run of play… it wasn’t that we played so great, I’m not saying that, but if we play this game in this fashion 10 times I don’t think we will lose 10 times.
“It’s far from sure that we win every time because therefore we were not good enough. If we don’t want to rely on a deflected shot, we need to do better, we have to play better, but we’ve had enough chances to win the game.
“But credit to Wolves as well, they fought from the first second until the end and got, maybe, a little bit of luck, what they deserved if you look at how much they put in throughout the whole game.”
