- Arne Slot revealed how he thought his stars could have done it better in Plymouth
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Arne Slot insisted that he does not regret having selected a weakened team for Liverpool's trip to Plymouth, since his approach is in the meseyside Derby on Wednesday in the Premier League.
There was a long list of heavyweights in the northwest with none of Virgil van Dijk, Mohamed Salah, Alisson, Ibrahima Konate, Alexis Mac Allister, Ryan Gravenberch, Dominik Szoboszlai, Cody Gakpo, Conor Bradley, Andy Robertson doing the trip to Devon
But Slot insisted that he still believes that mass changes were the right call and, when asked if he regretted his decision, he said: 'No, because you never know what would happen if we played with our headlines here.
'I think that during the season we have seen several times that it is a game plan or a style that is difficult for our headlines, but also for the players who started today. So constantly long balls, second balls. It is difficult for each team.
'Today I think we show why we use these players, because these players also need game rhythm in the coming months, they need game time and saw today, some of these players must be like this to be ready for the last months of the season.
Slot added: 'The result is obvious, it was a great disappointment and the way we played, there was either much to be happy. I was happy that the children continued to fight for 100 minutes and probably the best part of our game was the last 10 minutes.
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'Then, that shows that they continued to fight but the credit to Plymouth: they have a good game plan, they worked incredibly hard and obtained a penalty that was a reward and deserved because it was a clear penalty, the right decision.
'But that had a lot of impact on the game because both teams had just a chance and, suddenly, it was a penalty. That, again, it was the right decision. They kept fighting until the end and the goalkeeper made good salvages … but we barely created anything. '
Meanwhile, Liverpool received a blow of injury when Joe Gómez, captain of the day, had after only 10 minutes. He had lost six weeks with an lesion in the hamstrings and will have scanning in the next 24 hours to evaluate the scope of his problem.
Curtis Jones was part of the Plymouth travel party, but felt some discomfort after a training session, so it was out of the initial XI as a precaution. The midfielder was appointed substitute, but never got off his seat to heat.