Arne Slot believes it has change into more durable for Liverpool to attain objectives after they left it late to earn a stoppage-time 2-0 victory over Brentford.
The league-leaders, who had 37 pictures on Saturday, wanted Darwin Nunez’s late double to safe a treasured three factors of their bid for Premier League glory.
The hard-fought victory in west London got here after successive attracts to Manchester United and Nottingham Forest and Slot believes the defensive set-up of opponents has made it more and more tough for his aspect to search out the web.
“What you do see is that at this second in time it’s more durable for us to transform our probabilities into objectives,” Slot mentioned.
“That’s not solely as much as us, that’s additionally as a result of groups throw themselves in entrance of each ball each time we get an opportunity.
“So lots of the different groups attempt to forestall us from scoring as a result of all of them are in a low block.”
Liverpool’s defence has been key to their success this season, conceding simply 20 objectives in 21 Premier League matches.
Slot credited the centre-back partnership of Ibrahima Konate and Virgil van Dijk as a key cause behind their success.
“Most of these moments have been defended rather well by Ibou and Virgil,” he added.
“They went in a one-v-one in opposition to them in a counter-attack however we pushed them huge rather well, which helped Alisson to avoid wasting these pictures.
“I emphasised on that within the pre-match assembly, Bryan Mbeumo likes it on his left and scores lots by going inside.
“After all, one of many causes we’re so excessive within the league desk is as a result of we now have two and 4 superb centre-backs.”
Brentford, who mounted a comeback in Tuesday’s 2-2 draw with champions Manchester Metropolis, failed to duplicate that efficiency on Saturday.
Bees boss Thomas Frank talked up the physicality of Liverpool as an element behind their success.
“Bodily they’re excellent,” Frank mentioned,
“(Dominik) Szoboszlai, (Alexis) Mac Allister, (Cody) Gakpo and naturally Konate and Van Dijk. They’re technically and tactically implausible and so they have the physicality.”
