{"id":37051,"date":"2024-11-25T01:33:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T22:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=37051"},"modified":"2024-11-25T01:33:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T22:33:04","slug":"slot-strength-earned-us-three-points-despite-southampton-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/25\/slot-strength-earned-us-three-points-despite-southampton-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Slot: Strength Earned Us Three Points Despite Southampton Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Liverpool manager Arne Slot praised his team after a second-half comeback secured a 3-2 victory over Southampton, with the Premier League leaders facing the threat of losing to the last-placed team before Mohamed Salah became the savior.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Liverpool had a chance to open the scoring from a Southampton mistake but failed to capitalize in the first half, before falling behind 2-1 at the start of the second half. Salah then scored twice to extend Liverpool&#8217;s lead to eight points at the top of the table.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Slot told Sky Sports: \u201cIn the second half, I saw the strength I was looking for in the first half. Southampton made it very difficult for many teams, including top clubs. They made things tough for us today, even though we dominated the game. There wasn\u2019t enough urgency and pressure to get into the penalty area (in the first half), and we kept the ball instead of attacking the box. Despite being behind in the second half, we showed more pressure, urgency, and intensity. That led to many opportunities, and eventually, we scored two goals. It\u2019s hard to create chances (against) a team playing a 4-5-1 setup, sitting back. But we know Southampton wants to play that way, so you have to be really aggressive, or they have a very good game plan.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Salah increased his tally to 10 goals in the league this season, just two behind top scorer Erling Haaland. The Egyptian has scored six goals in his last five league matches.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Salah stunned the Southampton fans with his first goal, as he simply touched the ball from outside the box while the Southampton goalkeeper rushed forward, and the ball rolled into the net. He later sealed the victory with a penalty.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Slot added: \u201cIf you want to win, you have to score goals, and we know Mo (Salah) is capable of scoring. For me, his first goal was the most important, as we scored from nothing. After that, we just had to wait for the second goal.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool manager Arne Slot praised his team after a second-half comeback secured a 3-2 victory over Southampton, with the Premier League leaders facing the threat of losing to the last-placed team before Mohamed Salah became the savior. Liverpool had a chance to open the scoring from a Southampton mistake but failed to capitalize in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37052,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37051\/revisions\/37052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}