Liverpool’s Trent Alexander-Arnold admits his side are ‘disappointed’ to have ‘given Roma a bit of a chance’ in their Champions League semi-final tie.
Liverpool raced to a 5-0 lead on Tuesday night but slowed down in the final 20 minutes, which saw Roma pull two goals back, and Alexander-Arnold felt the Reds needed to be ‘more ruthless’.
“I’ve never played with a front three like that before. I’m not sure if any of the other lads have,” the right-back told his club’s official website.
Liverpool’s Trent Alexander-Arnold admits his side are ‘disappointed’ to have ‘given Roma a bit of a chance’ in their Champions League semi-final tie.
Liverpool raced to a 5-0 lead on Tuesday night but slowed down in the final 20 minutes, which saw Roma pull two goals back, and Alexander-Arnold felt the Reds needed to be ‘more ruthless’.
“I’ve never played with a front three like that before. I’m not sure if any of the other lads have,” the right-back told his club’s official website.
“We all step out onto the pitch confident that at least one of them – if not all of them – are going to score. We have confidence and they have that confidence within themselves.
“If you look at their numbers this season, it’s incredible and a credit to them because they’ve worked hard for it. The confidence flows throughout the whole team.
“It has been like that a few times now, in the Champions League especially. We’re running away with the result quite early; once we get the first one, it’s quite hard to stop the flow of the goals. That’s credit to the whole team.
“Maybe in the last 10 or 15 minutes our concentration let us down a little bit. The five goals were good but at the end we’ve come away disappointed.
“We’ve conceded two and given them a bit of a chance. We should have been more ruthless and put the tie to bed with the five goals effectively.
“But we can’t be too disappointed – we’ve got to bounce back next week. We’re still ahead in the tie and we’ve got to look to get into the final.
“They haven’t conceded at home in the Champions League so obviously it’s going to be tough. But we’ll go there and try to finish the job off and hopefully get to Kiev.”