ReactionTrent Alexander-Arnold assesses Reds' defeat at Bournemouth

The Reds went down 1-0 in the Premier League’s lunchtime kick-off, with Philip Billing’s first-half winner being sandwiched by a disallowed Cody Gakpo goal early on and a missed penalty from Mohamed Salah in the second period.

Read Alexander-Arnold’s post-match interview with Liverpoolfc.com below.

On what point of the game it started going wrong…

I think it was quite early on, to be honest. We created chances, we had our chances to score [and] we never, obviously we had the goal disallowed. But we started on a bright foot and I think they just sucked the life out of the game and it was difficult for us to build momentum. They slowed the game down and executed their game plan and then go and score the goal. But it’s one of those – it was very avoidable, the goal, and it’s disappointing looking back on it.

On playing early kick-offs away from home against sides fighting against relegation…

This is the time of the season when everyone knows what they are fighting for and obviously Bournemouth are in a relegation battle, so they are fighting for survival. But every team in the league is fighting for something so it means a lot to get the three points and I think looking back on it now, they probably wanted it more than us and that is something that is unacceptable and we need to make sure this kind of thing doesn’t happen again.

On the aim of resetting and looking to embark on another positive run of form in the Premier League…

I think there’s only one more game before the internationals and it’s a huge one for us, it’s one that we need to go and do something special, so all our focus is solely on that Real Madrid game now and it means that we can put everything into that game knowing that we’ve got days afterwards to recover. So, it’s about throwing the kitchen sink at it and going all out and I think that’s what we’re going to do – it’s important to do that. Then we’ll get ready for an important run-in.