Slot disappointed after Villa 2-2 Liverpool

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Slot disappointed after Villa 2-2 Liverpool  19/02/2025  Villa Park, Birmingham, UK

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00:00You're not interested in all of that?

00:03Seven.

00:05Seven? And the other one?

00:07Still 2-1, so they're going into extra time?

00:10Yeah.

00:12Jürgen?

00:13What satisfaction do you take from coming away with a point,

00:16or is the feeling more about the two points that got away

00:19and the chances that got away tonight?

00:21That last thing.

00:23The only reason why we could be happy with a 2-2

00:29was that they got the last chance of the game,

00:32and maybe their third chance after scoring two.

00:36So that could be the only reason that we would say,

00:39OK, a point is good to take, but for the rest, I think,

00:42for everything else, I'm not happy with the 2-2.

00:47I wasn't happy at all being 2-1 down at half-time,

00:50that didn't reflect, in my opinion, the first half at all.

00:54But, yeah, it's the thing of football,

00:56if you can see the set-piece, things can change quite quickly.

00:59I know in another interview you said that there's one player in particular

01:02who's pretty down in the dressing room at the moment,

01:04I'm guessing that's Darwin with the chance that he had.

01:07What was your view of that chance, what could he have done better?

01:10Because it's easy for us to sit here and say he could have dinked it,

01:12but he could have dinked it over Emi Martinez,

01:14but he came sprawling at his feet later on as well,

01:16so what is it that you need to see?

01:18No, what I saw was an unbelievable pass from Conor Bradley,

01:22and what a power run from Dominic Subbersly,

01:26who made, in my opinion, the perfect choice to square it,

01:30because from a 1-1 to the goalkeeper, he made it an open goal chance.

01:36Yeah, and then Darwin was, of course, it was not his best leg,

01:40he's right-footed, of course, but it was still a big chance.

01:44And, yeah, very unlucky,

01:48and I was hoping that he could have got another one,

01:51because a player like him probably wouldn't miss two chances in a row,

01:55and he was very close afterwards when he went towards Martinez again.

02:01But, yeah, Martinez made a great sliding tackle to win the ball.

02:05I think we were all disappointed,

02:07but it's normal that a player that missed a chance like this

02:10is always a bit more disappointed than the rest.

02:14Did you check on Conor Bradley, how serious do you think the injury is initially?

02:19Yeah, it is difficult, but he felt a bit when he made a sprint,

02:24tried to continue but had to go out.

02:27All the time with injuries, I always say if a player wants to go out himself,

02:31that's not a promising sign.

02:33So that will probably lead to the fact that he's, for 99.9 per cent sure,

02:38not available for City.

02:40And I didn't expect him to get Newcastle as well,

02:42and then we have to see if it's one or two weeks, or if it's going to be even longer.

02:50Does every team naturally have a little bit of a dip in the season?

02:54Do you feel like that's what you're having at the moment?

02:57Is that a natural thing?

02:59We have a dip, why?

03:01Just in terms of results, in terms of performance.

03:04It's a hard season, you've been brilliant every season,

03:06but does every team naturally have a little bit of a dip?

03:09I think every game has its own story.

03:11I think in terms of performance, we weren't brilliant at all at Everton,

03:16but for obvious reasons we were very unlucky to lose over there.

03:21Sorry, it felt like losing, but it was a draw to come away with a draw over there.

03:27Today I liked our performance a lot, much, much more than I liked our performance against Wolves.

03:33From what I liked the most, playing the ball, bringing the ball out from the back,

03:37creating chances.

03:40So, no, I don't feel like that at all.

03:42I think if you go away at Villa, that's always a difficult fixture.

03:45If you start the season, you know,

03:47oh, Villa away, that's a difficult one,

03:49oh, City away, that's a difficult one.

03:51So, performance-wise, not a dip at all today, in my opinion,

03:57but you might disagree.

03:59And what we must not do, and we've done that a bit too often now,

04:03is that we don't get what we deserve.

04:06And if you look at all the chances, if you put them in a row from us and from them,

04:09I think it's clear which team should have won this game,

04:11and we must not make a habit out of that,

04:15because it happened a bit too much now.

04:18And still, we are eight points clear with Arsenal a game in hand.

04:23With Salah, I mean, the goal and assist tonight,

04:25I mean, it's just his fingers were up and down,

04:27but he really feels like he's on that mission every game.

04:31It's just remarkable for him.

04:33Yeah, yeah, yeah.

04:34Yeah, he is, but not only him.

04:36I think I couldn't have asked for more today from all the players.

04:40They've worked so incredibly hard in a fixture list like we have,

04:44with so many games to be played,

04:46two difficult away games at Everton and here,

04:50emotional games as well, because not only the quality you face,

04:53you also play against the crowds,

04:55because they are really helpful at Everton and here again as well.

05:01But Mo, yeah, great goal,

05:03although Jot deserves a lot of compliments for that goal as well.

05:06And the second one, yeah, I was maybe a bit lucky because it got deflected,

05:10but we were there so many times in that period of time

05:14that it felt to me that we definitely deserved that 2-2 at that moment.

05:20Can you just explain the formation today with Curtis and Dominic?

05:24It seemed slightly different.

05:26Why did you do it and did you think it worked?

05:29No, result-wise, going 2-1 in at half-time,

05:33you could say it didn't work.

05:35Performance-wise, it worked really, really well,

05:38because we totally don't deserve to go 2-1 down at half-time,

05:42again, in my opinion.

05:44The reason why we did this is that Lucio played three games in seven days.

05:51I played him at Plymouth because I knew I had Cody,

05:55so I could switch them around if needed.

05:58But then Cody got injured in Everton because he got a big knock.

06:03And all of a sudden you have only one winger left,

06:06so that's why for today we felt this could work.

06:09And I think it did if you look at the amount of chances we created

06:12and how we played the game.

06:14But, yeah, result-wise, you never know if you would have done differently

06:18what would have happened.

06:19But it wasn't smart to play Lucio 90 minutes again.

06:22The same way I had to take out Jot and Trent,

06:26both coming back from injuries.

06:28Jot hasn't played for four or five months,

06:31it's his second start now after four or five months.

06:35So, yeah, you have to take care of them,

06:37especially in a period of time where you play so many games.

06:45See you tomorrow?

06:46Oh, yeah.

06:4812 hours.

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