Arne Slot makes 'completely wrong' Liverpool team talk admission after Nottingham Forest draw

Arne Slot praised Liverpool's stirring second-half comeback at Nottingham Forest that proved wrong the half-time message to his players. Substitute Diogo Jota's strike on 66 minutes wiped out Chris Wood's early effort to earn the Reds a 1-1 Premier League draw at the City Ground on Tuesday evening.

The result maintained Liverpool's six-point lead at the summit over Forest with title contenders Chelsea and Manchester City also both being held on the night.

Slot's side dominated after half-time with the home team indebted to a series of excellent saves from goalkeeper Matz Sels.

And despite his team dropping points for the fourth time in their last seven games, the Liverpool boss was delighted with the character and quality of his players in the second half.

"I couldn't have asked for more today," said Slot. "I think most people talk about the second half, I'm more positive about that than the first half.

"But if you play at this ground against this team that is in this form, hardly concedes a chance in every single game, and have so many counter-attack threats, we conceded only one counter-attack in 98 minutes of total domination, unfortunately for us it went in.

"Our ball possession in the second half led to a lot of chances. You have to give credit to the way Forest defended, they threw themselves in front of everything and had a goalkeeper who has had an outstanding season this year and tonight again.

"I said to them at half-time, don't get frustrated, you won't get many chances, the game will probably be slow but just keep focusing on what you have to do and hopefully we will get two or three chances and let's try to score from that.

"But I was completely wrong as they created chance after chance after chance."

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