Arne Slot reflects on the boos that greeted Liverpool’s 1-1 draw with Burnley on Saturday
Liverpool drew for the fourth straight Premier League game(Image: PA)
Arne Slot said he “completely understands” the Liverpool fans’ frustrations after their 1-1 draw with Burnley was greeted with boos at the final whistle at Anfield.
After Dominik Szoboszlai smashed a first-half penalty against the bar, Florian Wirtz scored for the second time this week after excellent work from Hugo Ekitike but the Premier League champions were unable to get the decisive second after the break.
Marcus Edwards fired home the equaliser for Scott Parker’s Clarets to condemn Slot’s side to their fourth successive league draw of 2026 and the Reds boss says he sympathizes with the home crowd, who vented at full time.
“In my head, it wasn’t a boo but in my head,” Slot said. “It was frustration as well. We are Liverpool and we play Burnley, who we have to give credit to how they defended, cleared balls off the line; all the things you want to see if you are a Burnley manager, players try to do everything that prevents us from scoring.
“But if we, as Liverpool, are not disappointed by having a draw against Burnley at home then something is completely wrong. I completely understand the frustration. I am the same and the players definitely have the same frustrations as the fans have.”
Slot added: “It’s not for the first time, it is usually frustrating. They come in different fashions. Sometimes it is that we are scoring a goal in stoppage time and you expect to win the game and then you concede another goal in stoppage time.
“I think these games we have played quite a lot (nine defeats in 12 from September-November) where we are the team creating more than the team we face but then we were losing those games.
“Then we started to become a team that was a bit more careful in conceding chances and that led to the fact that it also made it more difficult to create a lot.
“And as a result of that we have been in a lot of games where we haven’t lost and I think today was a game where I liked seeing us have even more possession than we would usually have, generating a lot of chances and usually that comes with, if you take more risk, it comes with the other team counter-attacking you but we controlled that really well.
“But yes, in football, one team can have two chances – one was almost an own goal for us – and score one goal when the other team has multiple chances and score just one goal as well and then you get the result you get.”
