Arne Slot left 'almost annoyed' by questions over Liverpool tactics

Reds boss denied his team were not proactive enough in attack against Wolves

The Reds are quickly back in action on Friday evening, just four days after a shock defeat away at the same opponent in the Premier League .

Andre scored in the 94th minute at Molineux on Tuesday evening to earn Wolves just their third league game of the season, after a rare Mohamed Salah goal had cancelled out Rodrigo Gomes' opener.

It was yet another game in which Liverpool had conceded a late winner in the Premier League this season. According to Opta, Liverpool have now lost seven points from goals conceded after the 89th minute this season, tied with Leeds United for the most in the league.

Ahead of Friday night's FA Cup fifth round clash against the same opponents at the same ground, Slot was asked if his Liverpool team would adopt a more proactive attacking approach, rather than reactive, in the rematch.

He replied: "It's not the perfect word to use, because it's not what I feel, but I'm almost annoyed if you say ‘that approach’, before the approach is no different. The approach is: we want to have the ball as much as possible and have it back as soon as possible. We always press high, and when we have the ball we try to attack.

"In the final part, when we have the ball in the same position, it leads to chances, which didn't happen in the first 70 or 80 minutes. I see that as well, but that's not down to the approach.

"Maybe we don't understand each other exactly when you mean 'approach'. We don't approach the game saying 'OK, in the first 70 minutes we don't want the ball or want to attack'. We do. When it doesn't lead to anything, then we completely agree.

"But that might also be the fact that an opponent might be fitter at the start of a game, compared to the end. Maybe Wolves became more defensive after going 1-0 up, so they gave us more space. Or there is more urgency with us, but it's never the approach.

"We always start the game in the same way, and play it in the same way ... there is no difference in the approach. We attack as much as we can, we bring enough players forward but we aren't creating enough chances, and that's not something new to me. We have seen that all season."