Slot on Liverpool's carabao cup final defeat to Newcastle
26/03/2025
Wembley stadium, London, UK
26/03/2025
Wembley stadium, London, UK
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00:00Any
00:22Openers this
00:30Disappointing result disappointing performance so completely different than I felt after the police engineer man game
00:41Losing twice in a row is something do we I think we do for the first time
00:44But that probably also comes with going into the latter stages of a tournament
00:49So facing police engineer man and Newcastle in the final are two very good teams both in their own styles
00:55But but very difficult teams to face because we already knew from the game against in James's Park
01:02how difficult it is to beat them and
01:06It was a tough week, but but it was also a week wherein where we extended our lead to 12 points
01:12from from it being 10, so it wasn't all negative, but
01:17Yeah, the last two were were definitely not the way we wanted it to be
01:25It was
01:35Yeah mentally is always difficult to judge
01:38Were we on Tuesday?
01:39mentally
01:41Or physically tired no, but but this was game had nothing to do with running
01:47This game had only to do with playing jewels and there was no
01:51Intensity in terms of running in this game at all, so you cannot even judge it if we were tired yes or no physically
01:58Because we could not press them you can judge a team if they are tired and if they press but there was nothing to press
02:05Because they played over our press
02:08If they had a goal kick and if they got a free kick
02:10Which they had quite a lot of in the first half they every time brought it into our last line which led to a lot
02:15of set pieces
02:17So the goal the game was slow
02:20Not intense, so it's difficult to judge for me if if we were physically ready mentally is always
02:27Yeah, that's a difficult one if you look at the result in the performance you might feel
02:33That it maybe did something to us
02:35But I I prefer to look at how the game went and this game went exactly the way they wanted it to be a
02:42Fight with a lot of jewels and a lot of jewels
02:47through the air and
02:49If we play ten times a game of football through the air against them they win it's probably nine times
02:55because they are a stronger team through the air than us which led to the first goal and the second goal because the second goal
03:00was also a
03:02Header that they won at the second post that fell for Isaac and led to the tuna
03:18I
03:25Again credits to Newcastle, but I can explain we play zonal so we have a lot of five players
03:32Zonally close to our goal
03:35So if the ball falls there is always one of the five
03:38stronger players that is going to attack that ball and we have three players that man mark and my guy is one of them and
03:47Normally a player like Denver or another one runs to the zone because
03:50Normally, and I think he's an exception to that. I've never seen in my life a player from that far away
03:57Having a ball with so much force into the far corner
04:02So that is part of logic that they either have to go far away from our zone which is
04:1099 out of 100 time that will never never lead to a goal
04:14Or they have to arrive in our zone and then it's a equal battle if you want to call it like this
04:20So credit to to him. I think he's one of the few players that can score a goal from that distance with his hat
04:25No
04:41Because it's 70 years since they've lost one a trophy maybe about
04:46That's for the fans and the players want to have 15 years to play football and they want to win every single trophy
04:51They are competing for that's also what we want
04:54But it was a game that went the way they wanted it to go
04:59And they they got just before halftime some extra energy with the goal
05:03which they probably deserved after the first 45 minutes because
05:08they were threatening us more than we threatened them and
05:14So, yeah, I don't think there was more hunger for them the game went the way they wanted it to go and they are stronger
05:22in that part of
05:24Of football than us and that's why they were and they beat us
05:29Porteous
05:41Yeah
05:42You try to make some changes so you go to a number nine
05:44that's even stronger through the air and then jog or maybe is because
05:49You're hoping that he Darwin in this situation can can make it a bit more difficult for
05:55For their defenders to win all these long balls. We had to play in the first half because I think Dan Byrne I
06:01Think he won every duel but and he played somewhere around 150. I don't know but he played a lot
06:08So you try to influence it like this and you try and you're showing at halftime that in in the few moments that are left
06:15When the ball is over in on the ground
06:18That we have a bit more time than we think and we could make better decisions than we made in the first half and that's also
06:24What I saw immediately after halftime
06:26when we played for Joffre with a triangle and he dribbled all the way and played the ball to Jogo and that led to a
06:33Not to a chance because Jolinton threw himself in front of the ball, but I saw the second half us
06:38Playing through them a bit more
06:41But a bit not a lot but a bit more
06:44James, please
06:58Like I said from the start it took us seven eight nine months to lose twice in a row and that happens against two teams
07:04That are one of them is fighting for Champions League Newcastle is a very good team
07:09We knew these already at st. James's Park. And the other one is Parisian Jomain probably
07:14If you can beat us
07:15In that style of play you are probably the best team in Europe at the moment
07:19They still have to show if they still can be this in the upcoming two or three months
07:24so
07:25But I want to make clear one more time that the week started off really well by us beating Southampton
07:31That's why we extended our lead to 12 points
07:34With nine games to go and yeah, you know
07:37if you go far in tournaments that their position your face gets stronger and stronger and
07:42That you can lose who even Liverpool can lose football games
07:47That's that's what can happen
07:55Yeah, we were outplayed in their style, yeah, that's true but that's
08:02Yeah, that is what you can call out plates
08:05Yeah, they want more jewels than us. Is that what you mean out work?
08:08Outworking or are they just is that they're one of their biggest qualities to play so much aerial jewels and to win these fishy jewels
08:17Out played for me is if you never don't need don't touch the ball and they play through you every single time you try to
08:22Press them and every time you're too late
08:25That is for me outplayed, but I agree with you if you say that they deserved to win
08:30Because the game went in the way they wanted it to go
08:34So yes, they deserve to win but it wasn't like we
08:38We were only running after them we had to defend a lot of long balls second balls and that's their strength. Yeah
08:46last one
09:02We are here one of the biggest clubs in the world Liverpool
09:05But it's not for the first time in their history or in the last two seasons that they've lost two games in a row
09:09This is part of playing football
09:11especially if one of them is when you face the best team in Europe at the moment and the other one is facing Newcastle
09:19which is a very strong team in England, so I
09:23Would have loved to play next week
09:26But now the situation is that they go to the national teams where they have to play two more games again
09:31And then it's probably one and a half week before we face Everton, which is again a team
09:36we already faced and we know how difficult that one was so
09:41Let's see. I think there are two just you
09:43That's the one I ask a question
09:58And I don't think physically
10:00Because of what I just said if you looked at how we played Tuesday
10:03It was the best physical performance in my eight or nine or ten months in at Liverpool
10:08I've never seen a team working so hard trying to press the other team so aggressive
10:14running so much
10:16Today it wasn't about running. It wasn't about it was more about jewels. Yeah, mentally. It's always tough to lose a final
10:23It's always tough if you if you wear the Liverpool shirt to go out of Europe, but again
10:27Last season we I think I'm not sure what a final or last 16 when they were when they lost against Atalanta Bergamo 3-0
10:35and
10:36yeah, it's part of
10:39It's part of football if you face strong teams that you can lose as well
10:42but ideally you go through the whole season only winning winning winning, but
10:48But yet can happen that you also
10:51After eight months of football lose twice in a row if you face Paris Saint-Germain Newcastle
10:59Thank you