Liverpool's manager Arne Slot rejected claims that his team's 2-1 loss to Newcastle United in the EFL Cup final was due to fatigue from their recent penalty shootout against Paris Saint-Germain. He credited Newcastle’s effective direct approach as the decisive factor. Despite Liverpool's impressive season overall, maintaining a strong lead in the Premier League, their lack of intensity during the match was evident. Slot emphasized that their performance lacked the necessary dueling intensity, rendering any assessment of physical fatigue difficult, especially as they were unable to reactive their press on Newcastle's play.
Mentally is always difficult to judge. Were we on Tuesday mentally or physically tired? No, but this game had nothing to do with running, this game had only to do with playing duels.
You can judge a team if they are tired if they press, but there was nothing to press because they played over our press.
If they got a goal-kick or free-kick, every time they brought it to our last line which led to a lot of set pieces.
So the game was slow and not intense, so it's difficult to judge, for me, if we were physically ready.
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