Trent Alexander-Arnold has tried to clarify why Liverpool had been surprisingly overwhelmed by Bournemouth on Saturday.
Driving excessive after demolishing rivals Manchester United 7-0 final week, the Reds got here crashing again right down to Earth with a 1-0 defeat to the Cherries, who moved off the foot of the Premier League desk with three hard-earned factors.
Liverpool fell behind to a first-half strike from Philip Billing by which a number of defenders primarily gave up attempting to stop the objective, whereas Mohamed Salah blasted a second-half penalty large to sentence them to a loss on the south coast.
Talking to Liverpool’s membership channels post-match, Alexander-Arnold tried to make sense of the outcome and the efficiency.
When requested to pinpoint when issues began to go incorrect for the guests, he replied: “I believe it was fairly early on, to be trustworthy.
“We created probabilities, we had our probabilities to attain [and] we by no means, clearly we had the objective disallowed. However we began on a vibrant foot and I believe they simply sucked the life out of the sport and it was troublesome for us to construct momentum. They slowed the sport down and executed their recreation plan after which go and rating the objective.
“But it surely’s a type of – it was very avoidable, the objective, and it’s disappointing trying again on it.”
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Alexander-Arnold spoke of his want for Liverpool to bounce again of their midweek journey to Actual Madrid within the Champions League, with the Reds searching for to overturn a three-goal deficit of their final 16 tie.
He added: “I believe there’s just one extra recreation earlier than the internationals and it’s an enormous one for us, it’s one which we have to go and do one thing particular, so all our focus is solely on that Actual Madrid recreation now and it signifies that we will put every little thing into that recreation realizing that we’ve acquired days afterwards to recuperate.
“So, it’s about throwing the kitchen sink at it and going all out and I believe that’s what we’re going to do – it’s essential to do this. Then we’ll prepare for an essential run-in.”
