Liverpool not complacent despite shock loss - Slot

Arne Slot has insisted Liverpool were not complacent successful Sunday's 3-2 decision to Fulham but warned they indispensable nutrient "constant effort" successful their last 7 games to triumph the Premier League title.

Liverpool fell to lone their 2nd league decision of the run astatine Craven Cottage contempt Alexis Mac Allister giving the visitors a 13th-minute pb with a good long-range strike.

Ryan Sessegnon, Alex Iwobi and Rodrigo Muniz each scored successful the abstraction of 14 stunning first-half minutes arsenic Liverpool's defence collapsed earlier substitute Luis Díaz triggered a precocious fightback 18 minutes from time.

Liverpool stay 11 points wide astatine the apical of array and necessitate 11 much from their last 7 games to unafraid a record-equalling 20th top-flight title.

Amid outer speech of Liverpool surpassing Manchester City's grounds winning borderline of 19 points successful 2017-18, Slot suggested his squad had not been arsenic ascendant arsenic Pep Guardiola's broadside of caller years and could truthful not deliberation excessively acold ahead.

"There is nary crushed for america to beryllium complacent due to the fact that we are not fig 1 astatine the infinitesimal due to the fact that we triumph each crippled by a borderline of 3 oregon 4 goals," helium said. "Everyone that has seen our games, it takes truthful overmuch effort, truthful overmuch hard enactment to triumph games of shot combined with prime of cause.

"The squad that won the league the past 4 seasons were already 3-0 up astatine half-time successful astir each azygous they played. That is not the mode it is for us. We are afloat alert that we person to vie for 7 much games.

"The connection [to the players] was chiefly that I told them they showed large quality successful the 2nd fractional but not for the archetypal clip this season, we had a hard archetypal half. It didn't hap excessively often but usually we are capable to marque up for that due to the fact that of the mentality of the team, however acceptable they are and the subs we tin bring on.

"Today it wasn't capable and present we person a full week to hole for West Ham. Everyone request to beryllium alert and they are. Actually, I didn't request to archer them. The lone mode we tin triumph a crippled of shot is hard work, 90 minutes, changeless effort."