{"id":25907,"date":"2025-10-31T07:45:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/31\/arne-slott-says-liverpool-were-lucky-last-season\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T07:45:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:45:21","slug":"arne-slott-says-liverpool-were-lucky-last-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/31\/arne-slott-says-liverpool-were-lucky-last-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Arne Slott says Liverpool were &#8220;lucky&#8221; last season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_74 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/31\/arne-slott-says-liverpool-were-lucky-last-season\/#Arne_Slott_talks_about_Liverpools_injury_misfortune\" >Arne Slott talks about Liverpool&#8217;s injury misfortune<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/31\/arne-slott-says-liverpool-were-lucky-last-season\/#Can_Liverpool_bounce_back\" >Can Liverpool bounce back?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>Liverpool manager Arne Slott reacts after defeat to Crystal Palace (Photo by Molly Darlington\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Liverpool manager Arne Slott admitted his side have not been as injury-prone as last season.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Slott led the Reds to an impressive Premier League title in his first year in charge, but his second year at Anfield got off to an even more difficult start.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool may appear to have had a bit of luck last season, when both Arsenal and Manchester City suffered a decline in performance, partly due to injuries to key players themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool, in contrast, managed to keep their key names around for almost the entire campaign, but are now down on their luck in that department.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Arne_Slott_talks_about_Liverpools_injury_misfortune\"><\/span>Arne Slott talks about Liverpool&#8217;s injury misfortune<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Slott has tried to explain away Liverpool&#8217;s poor results and performances this season, but insists he is not trying to make excuses for the team.<\/p>\n<p>See below. The Dutch tactician claims that it is simply difficult to put pressure on other players to play more often, even if it&#8217;s just a game every few days, at the same time as more players are sidelined through injury, limiting options&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we can talk about the issues&#8230;not all of them had a proper preseason, not all of them had injuries during the season,&#8221; Slott said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So if you get three or four injured, you&#8217;re back to 16 players. I&#8217;m a strong believer that 20-21 players is enough, but we have to keep them healthy like we did last season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was more difficult than last season to have everything available. Maybe we were more lucky last season, maybe we&#8217;re more unlucky now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arne Slott shouts instructions as Liverpool lose to Crystal Palace (Photo by Molly Darlington\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAgain, before people say this again, there are no excuses for our result, but we had to play a lot of away games with just two days of rest in between.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Can_Liverpool_bounce_back\"><\/span>Can Liverpool bounce back?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Liverpool will no doubt be hoping that having everyone back will improve their chances of picking up points, but do their problems run deeper than that?<\/p>\n<p>The Merseyside giants were already conceding a lot of goals before Alisson Becker was injured, while summer signings Jeremy Frimpong and Milos Kerkes simply haven&#8217;t performed well enough since arriving.<\/p>\n<p>Florian Wirths also had a full pre-season and there were no concerns about his fitness, but so far he has struggled to justify his price tag.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End -->\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool manager Arne Slott reacts after defeat to Crystal Palace (Photo by Molly Darlington\/Getty Images) Liverpool manager Arne Slott admitted his side have not been as injury-prone as last season. Slott led the Reds to an impressive Premier League title in his first year in charge, but his second year at Anfield got off to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[40],"class_list":{"0":"post-25907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}