Liverpool manager Arne Slot focuses on his team’s victory over Inter Milan, sidestepping questions about his public dispute with Mohamed Salah
MILAN: Liverpool manager Arne Slot dedicated his team’s 1-0 Champions League win at Inter Milan to the players who made the trip, refusing to add more fuel to his public dispute with Mohamed Salah.
The match build-up was dominated by Salah’s criticism of Slot, who had admitted he did not know if the forward had played his last game for the club after omitting him from the squad for this fixture.
Salah had said he felt “thrown under the bus” by Liverpool and no longer had a relationship with Slot after being benched for Saturday’s 3-3 draw at Leeds.
“In the rich history Liverpool have they’ve had many of these evenings,” Slot told reporters.
“But in the season we are in, I think if you were having an away win in this stadium against such a strong team then it should be about the ones that are here, they deserve all the credits.”
Liverpool moved into the top eight of the Champions League after Dominik Szoboszlai’s late penalty secured a controversial victory at the San Siro.
Slot conceded his team was fortunate to be awarded the decisive penalty but pointed to an earlier Ibrahima Konate goal that was disallowed for handball.
“If that is a penalty we could have had 10 this season I think,” admitted Slot.
“That was a penalty that I don’t think in the Premier League would have been given.”
He added that Konate’s disallowed goal was a clearer scoring opportunity than the penalty decision was an error.
Liverpool’s next Champions League match is an away fixture against Marseille before they host Qarabag in their final league phase game. – AFP
