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Trent under pressure

Superstar defender Trent Alexander-Arnold came in for a lot of criticism for his performance on Sunday against Manchester United.

The right-back, who continues to be linked with a move away from Anfield was torn to shreds by the likes of Roy Keane and other pundits.

Slot was asked about the England star and said: “I think we were all disappointed – not only Trent, we were all disappointed – by the way we played [against Manchester United on Sunday].

“First of all, about the result. Parts of the game we could be quite satisfied with, other parts of our game we weren’t completely happy with.

“That was not only Trent, there were more things in the game that we could have done better. Trent didn’t play his best game, I’ve said it already, but that’s not for the first time in his life he didn’t play the best game of his career.

“He has played so, so, so many games well for this club. Now it wasn’t his best – like for some others, it wasn’t the best game for some others as well.

We just pick it up and start training again, because these players know if you play 50, 60 games in a season, once in a while you don’t have your best performance.

“Maybe we should highlight more how good it is that these players are able to play every three days such a good game.

“And apart from the game maybe not being the best, it was again an eventful game from Liverpool.

“All the games we’ve played in the last six months – and maybe even longer when Jurgen [Klopp] was here – I got many text messages from people saying, ‘What a game again!’

“Unbelievable what happened the last 10 minutes, both teams playing fully for a win. That is also part of our job I think, to make it an eventful game.

“That is what we are trying to do every game, mostly with a result or winning. Now it wasn’t enough to win it, but it was definitely an interesting game for everyone to watch.”

Szoboszlai doubt

Liverpool boss Arne Slot revealed that key midfielder Dominik Szoboszlai remains a doubt for the match tonight.

Speaking on Tuesday, the Dutch boss said: “[Monday] he wasn’t in yet, if he is in [Tuesday] I would doubt he is available to start the game.

“Hopefully he is in today, but yesterday he wasn’t.”

Getting to know you

Antonin Kinsky is only 21 but could be trusted to start straight away despite the important of the match on Tottenham’s season.

And perhaps Ange’s future.

Kinsky cost £12.5million and has six Under-21 caps for the Czech Republic – he got his first senior call up in October but didn’t play.

He is the son of former pro Antonin Kinsky, who won five international caps and was in squads for Euro 2004 and the 2006 as a backup to Petr Cech.

Kinsky Sr also won the Czech top flight with Slovan Liberec in 2002.

Kinsky Jr spent last season on loan at Pardubice and had been the first choice for Slavia Prague before his exit.

Postecoglu said his lack of experience and age wouldn’t be an issue.

Postecoglou said: “He didn’t strike me as somebody who is going to shy away from that kind of opportunity should it come his way.

“That was a big part of bringing him in because potentially we might have to throw him in straight away.”

Reinforcements coming?

Spurs boss Ange Postecoglu has hinted that help is on the way and that the club will spend money on a striker during this transfer window.

Ange has already brought in goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky from Slavia Prague – and the goalkeeper could go straight in tonight.

But more men could be on the way with Postecoglu staring he hoped to give striker Dominic Solanke some help “in the very near future”.

PSG star Randal Kolo Muani has been linked, although he is also said to be wanted by Manchester United.

The Spurs boss added: “[Richarlison]’s coming back but we’ve got to try to keep him back. It’s got to be the right fit.”

Looking back

Liverpool fans will have very fond memories of their most recent trip to Tottenham, which came just two days before Christmas.

That Super Sunday fixture was an absolute farce as Spurs fell apart against the Reds, losing 6-3 – it was 6-1 at one point.

Tottenham have provided little resistance to Liverpool in the last decade with Spurs winning just FOUR of their last 29 meetings.

Liverpool have 18 wins in that time.

Head-to-head record (since 2011-12)

• Tottenham: 4
• Liverpool: 18
• Draws: 7
• Tottenham goals: 38
• Liverpool goals: 62

Here we go!

Hello and welcome to SunSport’s live coverage of Tottenham vs Liverpool.

It’s an early start for us today as we countdown to the huge first leg in north London.

Ange Postecoglu’s side head into the game in rancid form with just two wins – one of those in the quarters against Man Utd – in their last 11 matches,

Arne Slot’s Liverpool are flying high and have lost only one game all season, although they were lucky to escape with a 2-2 draw against Man Utd on Sunday.

The form book says this should be a routine win for the Reds – but this is cup football.