Arne Slot urges Liverpool not to make a habit of drawing games they should win

Liverpool boss Arne Slot warned his side they cannot afford to keep dropping points in games they deserve to win after a horror miss from Darwin Nunez in a 2-2 draw at Aston Villa.

Slot’s side missed the chance to move 10 points clear at the Premier League summit after being held in an entertaining encounter at Villa Park.

Mohamed Salah continued his impressive season with a goal and assist as he opened the scoring in the first half and then teed up Trent Alexander-Arnold’s second-half equaliser after Youri Tielemans and Ollie Watkins had turned the game around for Villa before the break.

The three points were there for the taking when Dominik Szoboszlai laid a golden chance on a plate for Nunez, who fired over an open goal at the far post, with Liverpool having to settle for their fourth draw in their last eight matches.

Slot said: “The only reason why we could be happy with a 2-2 was that they got the last chance of the game. OK, a point is good to take, but for the rest, I think all for everything else I’m not happy.

“So performance-wise, not a dip at all today, in my opinion. What we must not do, and we’ve done that a bit too often now, is that we don’t get what we deserve.

“And if you look at all the chances, you put them in a row from us and from them, I think it’s clear which team should have won this game, and we must not make a habit out of that.

“Because it happened a bit too much now, and still we are eight points clear with Arsenal, who have a game in hand.”

On Nunez’s miss, which had echoes of Ronny Rosenthal’s famous howler for Liverpool in the same fixture in 1992, Slot added: “Szoboszlai made it an open goal chance and then Darwin was, of course, it was not his best leg, he’s right footed, of course, but