"It is always difficult to play against a team that defends in a low block and mainly plays the long ball. It makes it even more difficult when you go one down after one minute when one of our players is on the floor. If you had told me before the game that against the low block, against many long balls, we would have created as many chances as we did, I would not have expected us to lose."
"But that is what we did. We had enough chances to score more than one goal, but on the other hand, again conceded two and one of the two was the set piece. I think if you lose a game after you have lost four, you will have more emotion, but there are no excuses. We need to focus on ourselves. We had so many chances, and we should score more, we should have defended better than we did."
Liverpool fell behind after just over a minute when Bryan Mbeumo slipped in behind Virgil van Dijk and finished past Giorgi Mamardashvili. The team probed and Cody Gakpo struck the woodwork three times before scoring with 12 minutes remaining. A Harry Maguire header from a set piece in the 84th minute sealed a 2-1 win for Manchester United, their first Premier League victory at Anfield since 2016. Liverpool have lost four consecutive matches across all competitions for the first time since November 2014 and have conceded two or more goals in eight of 12 league matches since the beginning of May. The side created chances but failed to convert enough and displayed recurring set-piece vulnerability.
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