Slot warns Liverpool cannot afford to switch off in Champions League test at PSG

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He challenged his players to “stand up again” and respond to the City embarrassment immediately.“It’s not the first time we have 15-20 minutes in a game where we don’t play our best football and it is not the first time we immediately get punished by a goal, some times one or two,” Slot said of Saturday’s collapse. But the first 35 minutes gives me a lot of confidence that we can go toe-to-toe with teams [like City] and PSG who, for me, are the hardest to play against in open play.

I have to say it like that, because of their quality and the way they are managed.“But I can tell you that if we have the 20 minutes we had at City here, we will again concede four goals because these PSG players know how to act if we are having a 20-minute period like that. So it is a challenge for us to be from the first to the last second at the level we were at in the first 35 minutes.

Last year [in the Champions League last-16] we completely deserved to lose 4-0 here or maybe more, but that is the beauty of football that we scored a goal in the 85th minute and it was almost like this was a robbery.”Slot claimed he had no issue with Van Dijk’s analysis of the City defeat and: “It was good that the captain has a strong and firm reaction after a game like that. We have to have a strong and firm reaction too.”