Liverpool manager Arne Slot said he was far from happy with his side’s performance in the 1-0 win at Girona, which extended the Champions League leaders’ perfect start to six games.
Mohamed Salah’s 63rd-minute penalty – his 50th goal of the competition – was the difference, but it was far from simple, with the first half particularly worrying for Slott.
“If you ask me about all six games, I’m very happy with all the results,” he said.
“I’m very happy with the five games, the way we played. I’m not too happy with the performance tonight.”
Asked what made him so unhappy, he added: “A lot. Two things in particular.
“If you’re playing against a team that has such a good idea of ​​football and knows how to get the ball out the back like some of the other teams we’ve faced recently, like (Manchester) City or Real Madrid, then you have to be so intense if you want to make it difficult for them.
“But if every time you wait a few seconds and then press on, you are so easily out of the game as this team can cause you problems and they have shown that throughout the Champions League, apart from PSV Eindhoven away. .
“I almost feel sorry for them because they deserve so much more in this campaign than the three points they have now.
“And every time we lost the ball we weren’t aggressive enough, almost every time they went to our goal.
“We hardly had any control of the game, maybe the second half was better – I’m trying to be positive.”
