Arne Slot has challenged Liverpool to find consistency in their results after a 1-0 win at Sunderland.
Liverpool closed the gap on the Champions League places with a hard-fought win at The Stadium of Light, becoming the first Premier League team to win at Sunderland this season.
Virgil van Dijk’s header was the difference between the teams, as Liverpool bounced back from their weekend defeat to Manchester City.
Asked if the win was an ideal response to that setback, Slot was pleased with the points but demanded greater consistency from his side.
“Yeah, but we’ve shown that response so many times already this season and now it’s not the consistency and the results because it’s not a coincidence that we win here tonight, or that we’ve won our games, because we’re usually the better team on the pitch.
“It’s more surprising to see that from all the times that we were the better team we didn’t make wins. But actually, today you could again see the reason why.
“If you create so many chances and also moments where we could have four-versus-three situations or three-versus-two situations then that should with the quality we have – and that will, by the way – lead to us scoring much more chances and much more goals.
“In the end we needed a set-piece to score, and we usually have against these teams 10 set-pieces, but we usually – and people from Liverpool can tell you – don’t score from set-pieces. But tonight we did and that’s the biggest difference to Burnley at home… I can come up with all these [examples]; Leeds away, Leeds at home – all these games.”
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