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Arne Slot said he had no regrets over fielding a weakened team against Crystal Palace in the Carabao Cup and accepted he is under pressure as \u00adLiverpool succumbed to a sixth defeat in seven games.<\/p>\n
Palace beat Liverpool for the third time this season to advance into the quarter-finals thanks to two goals from Isma\u00efla Sarr and a first Palace goal from Y\u00e9remy Pino. A \u00adcomfortable 3-0 victory was aided by Slot\u2019s decision to make 10 changes from the Liverpool team that started at Brentford on Saturday, with nine \u00adinexperienced youngsters on the\u00a0bench.<\/p>\n
But Slot, who admitted selecting with an eye on Saturday\u2019s Premier League game against Aston Villa, stood by his call. \u201cIt\u2019s always a blow to lose a game, especially when it leads to going out of a competition, but it\u2019s the same selection I did last season in these rounds,\u201d said the head coach, who hopes to have Ryan Gravenberch back from injury on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are many reasons why we\u2019ve lost six out of seven, none of them are good enough to accept \u00adlosing so many. Liverpool losing that many is always too much. Our \u00adperformance against Brentford, two days after we played Frankfurt away, I saw a team that struggled with \u00adplaying three games in seven days.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn two days, we play Villa and the last time I played a player I thought was ready for that programme was Alexander Isak, but it turns out he wasn\u2019t and went out with an injury.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the last round we played Southampton and Giovanni Leoni was injured and we got two yellow cards for Hugo Ekitik\u00e9.<\/em><\/strong> At this time we have only 15 or 16 [senior] players available and this club always used this \u00adcompetition for their academy players. This felt the right decision and I haven\u2019t changed my opinion after the result. With our starters we haven\u2019t been able to beat Palace as well.\u201d<\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/p>\n Sign up to Football Daily<\/span><\/p>\n Kick off your evenings with the Guardian’s take on the world of football<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: <\/strong>Newsletters may contain information about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com to send you this newsletter. You can complete full registration at any time. For more information about how we use your data see our Privacy Policy. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.<\/span><\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n Slot acknowledged he was under pressure to arrest Liverpool\u2019s slump before the Carabao Cup exit. \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s possible that if you lose five out of six, that losing six out of seven there is even more pressure,\u201d he said. \u201cIf you play for Liverpool or manage Liverpool you know the pressure is there. I don\u2019t think it has changed much after this loss.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Arne Slot said he had no regrets over fielding a weakened team against Crystal Palace in the Carabao Cup and accepted he is under pressure as \u00adLiverpool succumbed to a sixth defeat in seven games. Palace beat Liverpool for the third time this season to advance into the quarter-finals thanks to two goals from Isma\u00efla<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[83,2086,3735,2069,7628,16166,8690,12735],"class_list":{"0":"post-31414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-decision","9":"tag-defends","10":"tag-felt","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-palace","13":"tag-selection","14":"tag-slot","15":"tag-tie"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}