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'It was not needed for us to drop points' - Slot

FT: Wolves 2-1 Liverpool

Liverpool

Liverpool boss Arne Slot speaking to BBC Match of the Day: "I think we are able to create enough chances, not as many as I would like but enough to score against the other team but the other team don’t need a lot to score against us. The first goal was the first time, certainly in the second half, the first time they have got around our box.

On having chances to win the game at 1-1: "It should have gone the other way,. You’re mentioning Virgil's chance but don’t forget when Mo Salah is having a counter and both sides there are people free. He tried to find Dom [Szoboszlai] but someone got a foot in between. Those are moments that give a different result."

On Salah's goal: "Good moment for Mo, good action, bit lucky because they lost the ball in relatively simple situation. It was a good from open play, we have not scored that many from open play recently. We do create chances from open play, not as many as I would like, but enough to score more goals than we do."

Concern dropping points in race for Champions League: "That is a concern because it is not the first time we have dropped points against teams that are in these positions. But we are not the first team to drop points here, last week it was [Aston] Villa, the week before Arsenal. So they are having a good momentum. I don’t think if you look at this game it was not needed for us to drop points. I’ve said this many times and it did happen."

'We're taking points off top teams'

FT: Wolves 2-1 Liverpool

Wolves

Wolves manager Rob Edwards speaking to BBC Match of the Day, on his celebration: "It's the groin this time, I felt it falling apart. It's a nice feeling, a nice moment again.

"The lads are doing really well, we are competing and improving and that's all we can ask at the moment. You have to against a team like Liverpool - brilliant manager and players, against the champions you have to be good, carry out the game plan, be resilient, maybe moments of luck along the way. All that was needed, a bit of quality at the right moments which we showed.

"The way our games are going we seem to improve and get stronger in the second half. We need to make sure, especially against top teams, we are in the game. 0-0 we're happy at half-time, then we are able to open up a bit, a bit of pressure comes on the opposition, they open up and it suits us.

On the performance of goal-scorer Rodrigo Gomes: "The impact form the substitutes was excellent, brilliant finish, brilliant hold up play and the timing of the pass. The finish was excellent under a lot of pressure from [Liverpool defender Ibrahima] Konate.

"It's a great moment for him, we had to win the game twice in a way. If there was going to be one more goal in the game most would bet on Liverpool. Full credit to the lads for keeping pushing and believing.

"We are in a really difficult position at the moment so we are trying to win every game. At the moment we look a good team. We are just trying it improve and get better every game, working in training. At the moment we are competing with everyone, taking points off top teams.

"It was a difficult spot at the time [when he took charge] it's taken a while to change things and go in the way we wanted. We probably forgot how to win and how hard you have to work to win. The lad are showing that now."

'You need to bring the ball into the net'

FT: Leeds 0-1 Sunderland

Leeds United

Leeds boss Daniel Farke speaking to TNT Sports: "If you lose a home game when you are so dominant, you don't allow the opponent one chance and you lose it's disappointing and frustrating."

On the decisions against his side: "Football is sometimes like this. The whole stadium was exploding. One minute later it was not even a chance for them, an instinctive reaction from my most important and best player gave away a penalty. It's not necessary. It's written in the stars. The opponent sits in the dressing room and can't really explain why they won it and you are struggling to explain why you lost."

On the Pascal Struijk penalty appeal: "It's not even a question. What was VAR doing? It's tough to understand how this is not checked. If the referee watched it back he would say all day long it's a penalty. It's more for VAR, it's difficult for the referee to see."

On what was missing: "Clarity in the final third. This is what we have to add. Performance-wise what we have invested we can't complain. We are always self-critical. You need to bring the ball into the net. This is what we need to improve."

'I am much more angry' - Iraola on penalty

FT: Bournemouth 0-0 Brentford

Bournemouth

Bournemouth manager Andoni Iraola to TNT Sports: "I think we played really well. We haven't scored but we have been clearly the better team. We had the better chances and I think we should have won it. But football is like this.

"We hit the post, but there is also a clear penalty. It is impossible not to [give]. I cannot accept it. It's a shame, we're going to talk about the penalty when we played really well. It isn't acceptable.

"I am even more angry if they decide after watching the replays it isn't enough. I am much more angry. It is clear [Michael] Kayode has lost the position and he just stretches his leg.

"They probably don't call it because [Marcus] Tavernier stretches his leg and somehow finish the play. But still it is a penalty. Studs on the calf of Tavernier, you see the replays. I cannot find the reason. OK. I'm so frustrated."

'We want to put the top teams under pressure'

FT: Everton 2-0 Burnley

Everton

Everton boss David Moyes, speaking to BBC Match of the Day: "Back-to-back wins in the Premier League at the moment is hard for anybody. And it's been difficult for us over the last month or two but certainly a really good win tonight."

The win we got at Newcastle gave us confident going into tonight's game. I thought it showed in the way we played. I thought for long periods we dominated the ball. We maybe didn't make as many chances as we'd like but in the end we got a couple of goals."

On being close to the European places: "I want to be positive, and I want to believe and I want the players to believe. I have said to them right at the start, that should be what we aim for if we can try and do it. It's getting closer. I'm not saying we can do it and I'm not saying we cannot. We're not being talked about as a club that's in relegation and falling away. We actually think we're a club that's making progress and we can start tickling the top teams and putting them under a bit of pressure."

'You've got to enjoy the moment'

FT: Wolves 2-1 Liverpool

Wolves

Wolves manager Rob Edwards speaking to TNT Sports: "It's nice, long may the celebrations continue. It's the groin this time! It's Liverpool football club and any time you beat them, you've got to enjoy the moment. Never mind the position we are in at the moment. They're a brilliant football club with an amazing manager and lots of great players. We're trying to turn things around.

On how important it is to give the fans some joy and enjoying the moment: "It's really important. It shouldn't be at this level, but it could go the other way. We're showing some fight and spirit, which I know is the bare minimum, but we are showing quality as well. We are up against some top teams at the moment, we are competing with everyone. Whatever the lads have got to do it for at the moment, whether it is a World Cup, themselves, their families, whether they want to be here or not next year, they have got to perform well and they are showing that."

"We are a tight group and I want everyone to feel involved, which they do at the moment."

On his substitutions: "I knew who might come into the game and we just felt we were lacking a bit of energy in the initial part of the second half. We introduced a different impetus into the game and really thankful that they did and they had an impact."

On what he said to Rodrigo Gomes when he came off the bench: "Just go and score! Go and score like you did the other day. It was a tremendous finish. He is rapid. At 1-1, almost everyone expected another goal to go to Liverpool."

On whether his team can keep pushing: "That's the aim, we just want to keep trying to improve. There's a good energy around, and there is a belief that we are going in the right direction. Whatever happens until the end of that 38th game, we'll just keep fighting. We've made Liverpool angry, so we know how difficult it will be on Friday [when the sides face each other again in the FA Cup]."

'So clear the penalty, I cannot understand it.'

FT: Bournemouth 0-0 Brentford

Bournemouth

Bournemouth manager Andoni Iraola to BBC Match of the Day: "It's difficult to explain, I think we played really well today, one of the best games we've played lately.

"We had good chances but overall we controlled Brentford, a team that plays at a high level. But we haven't won it. We've hit two posts. Ryan Christie had a clear, clear chance. I think the penalty, I still cannot accept [how] we haven't had a penalty on Tavernier. Somehow we haven't won, I don't know how.

"It's a point. It's very little seeing our performance and our needs. There are also a lot of positives but probably at this stage of the season you need the points.

"We are drawing a lot of games. Draws don't get you a lot. Yes we go to 40 and that's a big positive in the end looking at the big picture. But in this moment after a game we feel the frustration.

"Some draws are fair and you feel it is a very good point for us. Today, no. I cannot accept. I have to defend my players, but I am sorry I cannot accept after the reviews that they say it is not a penalty. He [Michael Kayode] loses his position and stands on the calf of [Marcus] Tavernier. Yes, somehow he finishes, but this is so clear the penalty. I cannot understand it."

On the two benches squaring up after full-time: "I wasn't in the mix. I think Jordan Henderson and Kroups [Junior Kroupi] are exchanging words. But nothing happened in the end."

'We are losing far too many football games' - Slot

FT: Wolves 2-1 Liverpool

Liverpool

Liverpool head coach Arne Slot speaking to TNT Sports: "Bad result, far from good first half, better second half. Second half, there was a bit more urgency, getting closer and closer to scoring a goal, then conceding with the first moment they arrived around our box. We immediately struck back, first off the post, then with Mo, then we were twice close to making a winner.

"In the end, we conceded a deflected shot, which was not even a chance.

"We hardly conceded a chance, created not so much but more than they did, but the result is again a 2-1 loss.

"We are losing far too many football games and dropping points. Was it again in extra-time that we conceded? The three times we lost in the last 22 games were all three in extra time."

On facing Wolves again on Friday night in the FA Cup: "Yeah, which is a good thing and a nice thing because we have something to prove on Friday."

'If it is possible we need to keep believing' - Gomes

FT: Wolves 2-1 Liverpool

Wolves

Wolves’ Rodrigo Gomes speaking to BBC Match of the Day: “[It was] an unbelievable night, two wins in a row. Our stadium with fans under the lights is just amazing.

"I think we are in a good moment, we are playing very good and we are showing that in the past games and we need to keep playing like this."

On not settling for a draw when Mo Salah equalised: "We want to win every game, of course. A point with Liverpool is not bad but we wanted the win."

On if Wolves can avoid relegation: "We know we are in a tough position, it’s very difficult but we need to keep believing. If it is possible, we need to keep believing. Now we need to work, game by game and not think ‘if we win game or this game we avoid relegation’. Game by game, working like this every week then maybe – we will see."

'Whatever happens until the end of their 38th game we'll just keep fighting'

FT: Wolves 2-1 Liverpool

Wolves

Wolves manager Rob Edwards to TNT Sports on his run down the pitch to celebrate: "It's nice, long may they continue. It's my groin this time. I'm falling apart.

"This is Liverpool Football Club, never mind this position you're in, any time you beat them you've got to enjoy the moment. They're an amazing football club with an amazing manager, and loads of great players. So yeah, it was a big, big night for us. What we're trying to do is improve. We're trying to build some momentum. We know the position we're in. I know I've lost myself in that moment there. People might think we're bottom of the league but you saw the energy around this place. You have to enjoy it. We're trying to turn things around.

"We're showing some fight and spirit, which I know is the bare minimum, but also some quality as well. We're up against some top teams at the moment. The lads, whatever they've got to compete for, whether it's themselves, a World Cup, their family or whether you want to be here next season, you've got to perform well, and they're showing that.

"It took a while. When we first came in it was difficult. We were short of confidence. Initially it was hard to turn results around. Our standards had to improve and we had to work harder in training. Now we're seeing the fruits of a lot of hard work in those initially stages. That's what is, just repeat the right messages.

"We've got a really short squad now. We made decisions in January for obvious reasons. We're a tight group now. I want everyone to feel involved.

"At 1-1 if there's going to be another goal you're expecting Liverpool. We've almost had to win the game twice. That's what makes me so glad. We looked a real threat on the counter.

"We just want to try and keep improving. We're doing that at the moment. There's a good energy around and a belief we're going in the right direction. Whatever happens until the end of their 38th game we'll just keep fighting.

"We've made them angry, we know it will be difficult on Friday."

'We were predictable and sloppy in possession'

FT: Wolves 2-1 Liverpool

Liverpool

Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk, speaking to TNT Sports: "I think it's down to ourselves. It was slow, we were predictable, sloppy in possession and wrong decision-making. We didn't concede chances but if you perform like that then a result like this can be a result of that and that's a fact. It was disappointing."

On starting the game slowly: "It's not one reason why that's the case. The game nowadays we over-analyse why things are happening on the pitch. We as a team want to start a game as well as we can and in the last game we did, today we had majority possession but we were still making wrong decisions and we couldn't find the end product."

On how they conceded the goals: "Conceding goals is always frustrating. We've come on the back of a couple clean sheets, defensively we've been very solid but it is what it is and we have to move quickly on because we come back here in a couple of days and we want to do well in the FA Cup."

'We have 40 points, now time to set a new target'

FT: Leeds 0-1 Sunderland

Sunderland

Sunderland's Luke O'Nien speaking to Match of the Day: "In my opinion it was two of the best fans in the league and you saw that today. The atmosphere was special and you remember those days. Really proud of the boys, a special day."

On winning the player of the match award on his first Premier League start: "I'm not sure how I won this. The boys looked after me and know how much I wanted this start and how much this team means to me. The boys have been pushing me every day and we have one hell of a group. I'm just proud to be in this team.

"I'm not sure it was the prettiest of games or there will be many highlights for Match of the Day. Sometimes you have to grind it out. The boys were superb and we have our 40 points, now it's time to set a new target."

'It would be amazing if we could get close to Europe'

FT: Everton 2-0 Burnley

Everton

Everton boss David Moyes, speaking to TNT Sports: "I thought we played really well with the ball. I think we kept it well and moved it well. I think we recovered the ball well when we had to. We backed it up from the game we had at St James' park at the weekend and it was great to get back-to-back wins as well."

On being in the conversation for European football: "It would be amazing if we could even get close, which we are we're getting close. I look back to my time at West Ham, we were close to getting relegated and the next year we went on to get into Europe and then we done it three years in a row after that. The idea we have is we want to keep pushing. I want to be positive. I want us thinking there's a chance we can do it and we don't have to think about relegation after that."

On winning at home: "Really important. I keep saying the away supporters have been treated great, the results they've been getting, we've not been doing quite so well for the home support. They were with us, they recognised how well the players are doing. Great credit to the players, they keep on going. To win two games on the bounce in the Premier League is not easy."

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