Liverpool boss Arne Slot refused to criticise Darwin Nunez for missing big chances but did hit out at his reaction once he had missed them ahead of their Premier League clash with Manchester City
Melwood, Liverpool, UK
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00:00Can I just ask about Darwin as well, because there was so much attention on that one miss last night,
00:06how do you deal with that with Darwin himself, to make sure he doesn't suffer too much because of it?
00:13I can accept every miss, especially from a player that has scored two very important goals against Brentford,
00:19that scored for us in the home game against Vella, I would prefer him to score,
00:26but the word chance says it all, it's a chance, so it's not 100 per cent sure that the ball goes in,
00:32and players miss chances that I can accept, but what was a bit harder for me to accept
00:39was his behaviour after that chance, I think it got too much in his head,
00:45where he wasn't the usual Darwin that works his ass off and makes sure he helps the team,
00:53I think he was too disappointed after him missing that chance, and maybe we will never know,
00:59we will never find out, that's why he was just fresh and short, the moment afterwards I always
01:05truly believe that it's always the best to have Wata's mindset, and what I mean with that is that
01:10for the whole season he doesn't stop, he keeps on going, and whenever we need him he's ready,
01:16and that is very difficult, there are not many players that can do this,
01:19so, yeah, it's not about the chance for me, it's more about the 20 minutes afterwards
01:27where I want to talk to him about it than about him missing a chance.
01:30And you generally see that mindset from the group as a whole, because as you mentioned,
01:3322 games unbeaten in the Premier League since that defeat to Nottingham Park.
01:37Yeah, going 2-1 down against Villa, which was, in my opinion,
01:41completely against the run of play, so I was like, oh, at half-time,
01:47I also said to them, I can show you all the chances you've created,
01:50so I don't think 2-1 is the result that is logical at the moment,
01:55so if you just keep on going, we do it defensively a bit better,
01:58we will definitely get our chances again, and that's also what we got.
02:02Unfortunately, too many times this season we've missed maybe too many chances,
02:10and what I mean with that is that I don't think we've stolen many points,
02:15I've always come back to the Chelsea game where a draw was maybe more of a fair result,
02:20but for every other game I think we got what we deserved, or we deserved more,
02:25and that is more of a thing for me than Arsenal plays on Saturday and we on Sunday.