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Arne Slot has conceded that he made a blunder with his team selection for Liverpool's Carabao Cup final defeat to Newcastle United.

Liverpool were knocked out of Europe's premier club competition on penalties following an exhausting 120-minute battle.

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Caoimhin Kelleher stepped in for Alisson between the sticks, maintaining his role as Liverpool's cup goalkeeper, and Jarell Quansah took over right-back duties from Trent Alexander-Arnold, who was ruled out due to injury.

In the wake of consecutive defeats, critics have pointed fingers at the Liverpool boss for not leveraging his squad depth and rotating his players more throughout the season.

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Ahead of the Merseyside derby against Everton, Slot acknowledged that perhaps he should have freshened up his line-up more for the Wembley showdown - expressing regret for not starting Wataru Endo in midfield.

"Maybe, maybe, maybe I made the biggest mistake by not rotating enough," he reflected.

"Not rotating enough in the line-up for Newcastle - but I thought there were four days in between, they had enough rest.

"But again it is too simple to only say we were outworked.

That is nothing to do with a sprint or tracking back or whatever, it is just conceding a corner.

"He (Endo) deserved maybe to come in if you look at the bigger picture of what he has done for the team, also in the League Cup.

But as long as I am here now, for eight or nine months, I think you will be surprised if we are 1-0 or 2-0 down and I would have brought in a player that has hardly ever scored a goal.

In all the other occasions if we need a goal as we did, I took Ibou (Ibrahima Konate) off, put a midfielder in the last line, brought in Curtis (Jones), Ryan (Gravenberch) played as a right centre-back, Curtis started to play as a more offensive midfielder than Ryan, I brought in Harvey (Elliott) who can score a goal, I brought in Federico (Chiesa) who can score a goal, I had Darwin (Nunez) in the team, I had Cody (Gakpo) in the team, I had Mo (Mohamed Salah) in the team.

"So all the attackers were in the team and maybe I have to agree with you, that after 10 minutes I should have taken someone off to bring Wata in.
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