Liverpool boss Arne Slot said people would “make stories” for reasons of his team’s 3-2 defeat at Fulham, but beat the defensive error in his first Premier League defeat since September.

It turns out that in 14 minutes, Fulham’s three goals proved to be a difficult hill to climb, as the Slot man saw 26 unbeaten league games in West London, largely due to his own defensive error.

They briefly led the Craven Cottage before the mistakes of Curtis Jones, Andrew Robertson and Virgil Van Dijk.

This allowed Liverpool to beat two goals for the first time since Merseyside Derby beat Everton last April, and although Luis Diaz had done wisely from the end, they couldn’t force the equalizer.

Asked if pressure or complacency affected his team, the slot machine pointed to Liverpool’s defensive consistency – admitting only 27 goals before the defeat and denying the results and performances in the office a bad day.

“There is always a lot of attention around Liverpool,” he told him. Sky movement. “It hasn’t started yet, it’s been there all season.

“Of course, people want to create stories, but for me, that’s playing with Fulham. They’re a good team and if you make three mistakes, it’s very difficult to win the game.

“Overall, we didn’t make a lot of these mistakes, let alone three games. Today, we (Ibrahim) Konate also lost the ball.

“The second half is much better than the first one, but if you admit three goals like this, it’s hard to win football at this level.

“You might feel like we’re creating a lot of opportunities, we have some, but unfortunately we end up lacking time to score a third goal. It’s about us acknowledging three goals because it’s hard to score three in a away game, especially a good team like Fulham.”

The goal of the slot is to shoot the people city: we work hard for this position

Slot compared Liverpool to Manchester City, who won four consecutive Premier League titles, and he hinted that his side needed to work harder into where they found themselves, taking an 11-point lead on the table with seven games left.

“We have no reason to be complacent,” he said. “We are not the first one because we won every game by three or four goals.

“I think everyone who has watched our game has put a lot of effort into us, the hard work of winning football games, and of course the quality.

“But the team that won the league over the past four seasons (Manchester City) almost rose 3-0 in the half.

“That’s not the case for us. So we’re fully aware that we have to compete for seven games.

“We saw it in Wednesday’s game against Everton. It was a close call. Today was a close call. A lot of the time we were on the right. Today we were on the wrong side, mainly because we made mistakes.”

“There will always be moments of pain when Van Dijk is suffering”

Van Dijk had a lot of chances to approach Beto in his 1-0 win at Everton at Anfield Wednesday night at Everton forward and had another tough afternoon at Craven Cottage.

Usually what the Dutch is usually reliable is Fulham’s third goal, misjudging the high goal, allowing Rodrigo Muniz to score a clear goal before shooting home.

“I’m also mainly thanking other players,” said when asked about his captain’s form. “Van Dijk wasn’t the first player to find it difficult to defend against Beto. The player who plays here today must also praise him.

“I still see a lot of things doing well, but if you play 50-60 games per season, you can do better even for him.”