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“Even Liverpool can lose football games” Arne Slot

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Liverpool manager Arne Slot insists that his side were not “outplayed” by Newcastle United following their defeat in the Carabao Cup final.

The Reds suffered their second consecutive defeat following their 2-1 loss to the Magpies at Wembley Stadium on Sunday.

Dan Burn opened the scoring for the Magpies in the 48th minute before Alexander Isak doubled their lead in the 58th minute, while Federico Chiesa scored a consolation goal in deep into stoppage time.

Liverpool will be looking to bounce back and return to winning ways when they take on city rivals Everton in the latest installment of the Merseyside derby on April 2.

“We are here in one of the biggest clubs in the world, Liverpool, but 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,” said Slot.

“This is part of playing football, especially if one of them is when you face the best team in Europe at the moment and the other one is facing Newcastle, which is a very strong team in England.

“I want to make clear one more time that the week started off really well by us beating Southampton,” he said. “That’s why we extended our lead to 12 points with nine games to go (the situation after Arsenal’s 1-0 against Chelsea on Sunday).

“And, yeah, you know if you go far in tournaments that the opposition in your face gets stronger and stronger and that you can lose. Even Liverpool can lose football games. That’s what can happen.

“Outplayed for me is if you don’t touch the ball and they play through you every single time you try to press them and every time you’re too late. That is for me outplayed.

“But I agree with you if you say that they deserved to win because the game went in the way they wanted it to go. So, yes, they deserved to win but it wasn’t like we were only running after them.

“We had to defend a lot of long balls, second balls and that’s their strength.”