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Arne Slot has admitted that leaving Harvey Elliott out of his starting line-up for Liverpool's 3-1 win over Southampton may have been the wrong decision.
As a reward for scoring a last-minute winner in the 1-0 Champions League victory over Paris Saint-Germain, Elliott found himself on the bench against the Saints.
After a poor first half where the Merseysiders gifted Will Smallbone a goal on the stroke of half-time, Slot hauled off Curtis Jones and introduced Elliott.
The 21-year-old was one of two other players the Dutchman brought on, with the Premier League leaders trailing.
After the match, Slot admitted that, in hindsight, snubbing Elliott may have been an error of judgement.
When asked by the Liverpool Echo if it was difficult to leave Elliott out of the starting line-up, Slot said: "It is always a difficult decision not to start Harvey, not to start Wata (Wataru Endo), not to start all the other ones I don't play.
"But if someone comes in for five minutes, touches his first ball and scores a goal and then you change your whole idea about all the line-ups you made before, that would be a bit out of line - a bit weird as well.
"He got 45 minutes today because he did so well in Paris.
"But today, if I could do it one more time over, I would have started it differently than I started today...but you don't know this in advance."
When asked if there are enough games for Elliott to break into Liverpool's midfield, the Dutchman said: "Yeah, there is enough time; we play nine more games in the Premier League and hopefully a few more in the Champions League as well and one more in the League Cup.
"What it is with him is also with other players; they are in competition with so many good players and that makes it sometimes difficult to make a line-up.
Slot added: "Every time I am sitting here and talking about Dominik, I'm talking about he is a machine.
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