Arne Slot rants at Liverpool after Man Utd 3-0 win in USA | Football | Sport

Arne Slot’s Liverpool comfortably beat Manchester United 3-0 but the Dutchman was not completely satisfied despite making it three wins from three games on the Reds’ pre-season tour of the USA.

Goals from Fabio Carvalho, Curtis Jones and Kostas Tsimikas helped Liverpool overcome their rivals in Columbia, South Carolina, in front of 77,559 fans.

However, the Dutch boss, taking charge of just his third friendly as Liverpool manager, was not entirely satisfied with what he saw at the Williams–Brice Stadium. Asked if he was happy with his team’s individual performances, he replied: “Yes, I was – but not with all of them.

“We’re really happy with the result, we scored some really good goals. But I don’t think we had enough control over the game because United threatened us more than a few times. It was a 3-0 win but the scoreline could have been different tonight too.”

Liverpool’s defeat of the Red Devils comes on top of their 1-0 win against Real Betis in Pittsburgh and their 2-1 success against Arsenal in Philadelphia.

Slot reiterated his complaint about how open his side were, adding: “Of course the results, that’s where everyone is looking. But the players have stayed fit and are able to perform the way we want, so (a) high intensity game.

“We’ve seen some great goals on this tour, some great build-up situations and I see they’re working very, very hard to keep clean sheets.

“(But) As I said, today I think we wasted too many chances, United deserved more than a 3-0 defeat. But it’s also our quality that we scored our own chances.”

Liverpool now fly straight back to England to prepare for two friendlies in one day next Sunday. They play Sevilla at Anfield while Slot gets their first taste of their new stadium at 12.30pm.

They then host Las Palmas behind closed doors at Anfield at 5pm on the same day. That comes a week before they open their Premier League campaign at Ipswich on Saturday 17 August (12.30pm).

Slot added: “A lot of new players come in – I think seven, eight or nine maybe. They’re not new, but they’re coming back from vacation. So it’s interesting to see how these players fit into the team and implement them as quickly as possible.

“We need to work hard over the next two weeks to be ready for Ipswich because there are a lot of positives to take from today but also, as I said, we missed a lot of chances.”

Dominik Szoboszlai missed Liverpool’s win over United after playing in the first two friendlies in the United States. The Hungarian star was not even in the matchday squad.

And Slot explained ahead of the match: “I think it’s our 13th day on the tour. Dominik has been in every session and every game, and we played the last one two days ago.

“I think it’s a bit of fatigue and we don’t want to take any risks because we’re going back to Liverpool tonight and on Tuesday all the other players are coming back as well.

“So we want to start with all the players available and we didn’t want to take any risks with him today.”