ReactionArne Slot press conference: Every word on Liverpool 1-1 Burnley

Florian Wirtz powered the Reds into the lead shortly before the end of a dominant first half on Saturday, during which Dominik Szoboszlai had earlier hit the crossbar with a penalty.

Several chances had been and gone before then, and in the second half Cody Gakpo saw an effort cleared off the line prior to Marcus Edwards drilling home an equaliser for the visitors.

With Edwards’ goal arriving in the 65th minute, there was still plenty of time for Slot’s side to find a winner but they were unable to beat Burnley goalkeeper Martin Dubravka again.

See what the head coach said to the media afterwards below.

On the result and performance...

Not for the first time, frustrating. They come in different fashions: sometimes it is that we are scoring a goal in extra time, so you expect to win the game and then you concede another goal in extra time. I think these games we’ve played quite a lot during the phase where we lost a few games where we were the team that created much more chances than the team we faced, 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 made it also more difficult to create a lot and as a result of that we’ve been in a run of games where we haven’t lost.

I think today was a game which I like to see, a team that even for our standards [had] more ball possession than we usually have, generating a lot of chances from that ball possession. Usually if you take a bit more risk that comes with the other team counter-attacking you a few times and we controlled that really well. But in football one team can have two chances – there was almost an own goal from us – and score one goal and the other team can have multiple chances and score one goal as well and you get the result we got today.

• Read our match report from Anfield

On supporters’ frustrations with the result...

Yes, in my head it wasn’t a boo, but in my head it was frustration as well. We are Liverpool and we play against Burnley – and we have to give them credit [for] how they defended, cleared balls off the line, all the things you want to see if you are a Burnley manager, players that try to do everything to prevent us from scoring – but if we, as Liverpool, are not disappointed anymore by having a draw at home against Burnley then something is completely wrong. I completely understand the frustration. I can tell you I have the same and the players definitely have the same frustration as the fans have.

On whether ‘sloppiness crept in’ to Liverpool’s performance before Burnley’s equaliser…

I think there was one big warning sign when we almost scored an own goal and that chance, and the goal we conceded, came from similar situations where we wanted to try to bring the ball out from the back and we were caught in possession. Twice that led to a dangerous situation and I think those were the only moments where we struggled, but that was inside five minutes so it felt like, ‘We are having a more difficult spell in the game.’ So, in a similar way we have conceded those two chances but during the whole game I think we did really well in a combination of bringing the ball out from the back [and] playing a bit more direct. But yeah, a great finish from a position which, I think, we had many better positions to score from, but that’s football and we have to accept that.

On another positive performance by Milos Kerkez…

We just spoke about frustration. I think we all have a lot of frustration about the result, sometimes it’s also a bit of a frustration for me that all the development some players are going through is not being seen because the results don’t show how the development of the team and individual players is. You are talking about Milos and I completely agree – he had another good game. I saw Florian scoring another great goal and he was involved in a lot of other moments as well. Jeremie Frimpong, another good game of him – a big, big, big threat on that right side.

But results don’t always reflect development and that’s, I would almost say, another frustration because it is also hard for the players to feel that we are improving, to feel that they are improving, if results are not as we want them to be. Of course, we can talk now about 12 [games] in a row without a loss but our standards are higher than not losing. Our standards are winning every game.

• Florian Wirtz: It's very frustrating - we had enough chances to decide the game