Arne Slot explains latest Harvey Elliott starting omission.

• Elliott a second-half substitute for Liverpool’s 3-1 win over Southampton
• 21-year-old yet to start a Premier League game this season
• Arne Slot admits there’s time for Elliott to break in and show his quality

Liverpool manager Arne Slot said he couldn’t bring Harvey Elliott into the starting lineup base on his Champions League match-winning cameo against Paris Saint-Germain.

That he has his reasons for starting other players ahead of the 21-year-old.

Elliott’s goal in midweek help Liverpool to หรือถ้าคุณสนใจแทงบอลออนไลน์ UFABET คือเว็บที่มีอัตราต่อรองดีที่สุดในประเทศไทย สมัครเลยตอนนี้ที่ UFABET แทงบอล an extremely fortunate 1-0 win over PSG in the French capital, having on the back foot for almost all of the contest.

With the first half of their Champions League last 16 job done, it was quickly back to Premier League action for Slot’s Liverpool as they took on Southampton. The bottom of the table Saints took a shock first-half lead through Will Smallbone but were unable to hold onto their advantage at Anfield as Liverpool roared back in the second 45 – Darwin Nunez’s equaliser followed up by a brace of penalties from Premier League Golden Boot leader Mohamed Salah.

Elliott’s omission was one of the talking points after the game, with Slot probed on why the young English midfielder. Who recently spoke of his “anger” at not getting more opportunities, was again left to make an impact from the bench.

“It’s always a difficult decision not to start Harvey, not to start Wata [Endo], not to start all the other ones I don’t play,”

the Dutchman said. “But if someone comes in [for] five minutes, touches his first ball and scores a goal and then changes your whole idea about the line-ups you made before, that would be a bit weird as well. He had a good impact on the game today, again a good impact on the game.

“That’s why he got 45 minutes today as well, because he did so well in Paris. But there is also a reason why I play so many times the other ones and all the time they deserved that trust. Today, if I could do it one more time over I would have started differently than I started today, but you don’t know this in advance.