Liverpool’s first three goals on Saturday all came as a result of corner routines, which Slot admitted pleased him, having previously bemoaned his side’s weaknesses when defending dead-ball situations.
He added: “That’s very pleasing. First of all, because that’s the reason why we won [and] second of all, because when I was just standing around your colleagues people said, ‘Well played, well played,’ and I said, ‘In my opinion, we’ve played better this season.’ We played OK to good – so, we were OK to good but it wasn’t the best game of the season. We’ve played better when we’ve lost [and] we’ve played better when we conceded set-pieces.
“But as I always said, things went back to normal. We created quite a…