ReactionArne Slot press conference: Every word on Arsenal 0-0 Liverpool, Conor Bradley injury and more

The Reds claimed a point in the Premier League on Thursday night to extend their unbeaten run to 10 matches across all competitions.

Conor Bradley – who was later stretchered off due to an injury sustained in stoppage time – hit the crossbar in the first half of a solid performance from the visitors.

See what Slot said to the media post-match below.

On if he was happy with the result and the performance...

Definitely with the performance. To a certain extent also with the result, because Arsenal are having a great season domestically and also in Europe, so you know how hard it is to even get a result against them, let alone to win. That's why to a certain extent you're positive about the result. I think in the first half they had much more ball possession than us, although in some spells of the game you could already see how well we can play the ball out from the back and how many times we could play through them. But they were more dominant, were a few times very dangerous over their right side with [Jurrien] Timber and [Bukayo] Saka, but that led to not much more than crosses.

In the second half I think we defended a little bit better in their first build-up, so that made it more difficult for them to dominate as much as they did in the first half, and we were even better on the ball or we did similar things like parts in the first half to dominate. But from all that ball possession, and that's not something new for someone who follows Liverpool, you're hoping for more chance creation. We were a lot of times very close, [but] shots and decision-making in the end, hit the bar in the first half. Just not enough to score a goal.

On if he thinks 'it's acceptable that Gabriel Martinelli shoved Bradley when he was injured'...

I got the same question just a second ago. I don't know Gabriel Martinelli but he comes across as a nice guy. I think the problem for him is - and that's the problem in general in football - is that there is so much time-wasting and players pretending they are injured in the final parts of the game or during the game that you can then sometimes be annoyed if you want to score a goal that you think that player is time-wasting.

I cannot ask from Gabriel Martinelli in the 94th minute when it's so emotional for him to understand that he plays Liverpool and that is a team when they are being held, held, held against Leeds United we don't even go to the floor, if we play West Ham United and [Lucas] Paqueta tries everything to get a second yellow card and my players try to drag him out. You cannot expect from Martinelli that he thinks so clear in the 94th minute. I am 100 per cent sure if he knew what the injury might be that he we would never do that.

But it doesn't look great if he has the injury which we fear he might have, of course. But football, time-wasting, diving has come to the situation that players think in the 94th minute that probably that is happening again. Because I have seen it happening against us so many times this season that I can understand that Martinelli might have thought that this was time-wasting as well and he couldn't have thought, 'This is Liverpool, they don't do this.'

On the extent of Bradley's injury...

I don't know yet but it didn't look great if you have to go off on a stretcher. When we see the video, we both think probably the same but we have to wait on the scans if it's that bad. Or maybe he can play on Monday - let's hope so.

On whether the difference in the players on the sides' substitutes' benches illustrates 'where the teams are at the moment'…

I think there are other things to talk about where both teams are at the moment than talking about the bench. I think we showed today - and not for the first time, by the way, this season - that in the big games we are able to compete with any other team and we've had results against almost any big team that we have played, except for Manchester City, where it was of course so obvious we that we scored the 1-1, but the only ones that didn't think that was the referee and the VAR.

So, that's the only game which we lost by 3-0, for all the other games I think we've showed - at home against Arsenal, away against Arsenal - that we can compete with any other team. The question is then why are we 14 points behind? And for me that is also so obvious - because we struggle so much against low blocks to unlock that. As you all know, sitting here, that there is 20-goals difference between them and us in set-pieces. But again, in both games, I think we have shown that both teams are very strong and very competitive against each other. We won it because of a free-kick at Anfield, today there wasn't a moment like that so that's why it ended 0-0.

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On whether he made any tactical changes at half-time…

No, like I said, I think the way we pressed their two centre-backs and their No.6 was better in the second half than in the first half. That's why we could regain ball possession faster in the second half than in the first half. They couldn't come as far around our box than as in the first half, but maybe the main thing was we had the ball for long spells and then when they kicked it away we could win it back and start playing again. But credit to Arsenal as well, the way they defended their box - I think we had five, six or seven shots, mainly from Dominik Szoboszlai and he has a good shot, I can tell you. And one shot I thought might have gone in but then of course Gabriel [Magalhaes] blocked it with his body forward and his legs. They are good in so many things, including box defending, that it is so difficult to get a result against them, but we managed to do so.

On what he can take to build on from a 'good performance'…

I am a bit surprised that people think this is a good performance because when we have 60 or 70 per cent ball possession against other teams people find it boring and now it is a good performance. But again we hardly created a chance and now we say, 'What a performance.' This is who were are - we can dominate possession, we know how to do build-up, but we struggle, obviously, in a few things. Set-pieces are one of them, dominating moments when we are in the final third, to find the right pass and the right execution, that is something that is still not at the level some other teams are and that's why we are working every single day.

But yes, we did really well in ball possession, but for me it wasn't that much different than playing Leeds at home or Fulham away, where we dominated ball possession as well. But then people are annoyed that these teams are not of the magnitude of Arsenal [so] it is not good enough, which I completely agree on, by the way, because I want to see us creating more chances as well.

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