ReactionArne Slot press conference: Frimpong, Isak injury updates and Eintracht 1-5 Liverpool

The Reds' four-game losing run was ended by a dominant display at Deutsche Bank Park and recovery from Rasmus Kristensen's 26th-minute opener.

Hugo Ekitike returned to his former club to score the leveller before headed goals off corners from Virgil van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate gave the visitors a 3-1 lead at the break.

Cody Gakpo netted the fourth and the evening's scoring was completed in minute 70 by Dominik Szoboszlai's long-range hit.

The evening was slightly soured, however, by potential injuries to Frimpong and Isak in the first half.

See what Slot had to say in his post-match press conference with the following summary from it…

On whether Liverpool offered 'the perfect response' to recent form tonight...

Maybe yes, although I saw a lot of similarities in the last few weeks, in the last few games we played. I also saw some differences. The similarities were that we already create a few chances before we conceded the first one and the first chance we conceded was usually a goal. In the end it turned out to be the only chance we conceded today. Why was that? Because we went 3-1 up and so then it's easier to control the game than when you're 1-0 down all the time. I've said here a few times telling you guys how important set-pieces are, how important the balance at set-pieces is. Now we were able to score two so you go 3-1 up at half-time because you score two set-pieces.

That is a big, big, big difference and you go in at half-time at 1-1 with still the same amount of chances, but people will judge us definitely differently when you don't score them. The biggest exception for me today compared to the other games we've played was the playing style of our opponent. We got some energy out of the moments we could press them, which in the last four or five games we played we were not able to press the opponent because the ball wasn't on the ground, it was in the air.

• Read our match report from Deutsche Bank Park

On Ekitike's performance and Isak's injury...

The first goal we scored was special. You could see his pace in a moment like that. These were also moments we were also hoping for. Like I said before the game, we were able in the last few weeks to create many, many, many chances but unfortunately we were not always able to score them. Today with Alex and Hugo, I brought two players on the pitch who are usually able to score goals. Alex was close a few times but had to go off at half-time and that's the difficult balance we were having with him.

When he came, he hardly had trained, so you bring him step by step forward and then you feel there must be a moment where he can play twice a week – he did it with Sweden as well. But the first time we tried he had to go off and let's hope it is not that bad. He had to come off because he felt his groin. Many people told me they wanted me to play him more and we had to find the balance and unfortunately that balance didn't work out for us today perfectly. Let's hope for the best. Both of them did what I was hoping for, making runs in behind, making sure they were a big threat and both of them did well.

On his conversation with Szoboszlai in the first half and the midfielder's performance...

The topic was that my team and myself watch three, four, five, six, seven, eight games of the opponent and not once they have played like this. So, we were expecting a 4-3-3, maybe with a winger and a nine press, we were expecting a 4-4-2, we were even expecting a 5-3-2. But we weren't expecting 5-2-3 and that's what they did. The good thing is that it's quite familiar for us because [Crystal] Palace plays it, [Manchester] United plays it, Burnley played it. I had to adjust a little bit how we wanted to press, so that was one of the conversations. Dominik, again, had a good performance. Since I'm here, he's one of the players that, maybe after Virgil and Mo [Salah], has played the most minutes for me. That tells you what I think about him.

On Frimpong and whether Isak was in the 'red zone' before the match...

No. If he was in the red zone, we wouldn't have played him. You try to prepare players for once-a-week football. But if you are Liverpool then you play every three days or normally three times in eight days, because we've been unfortunate this season that we have to play three times in seven days. Then you try to prepare for that programme, which is not always so easy if you don't have a pre-season. That's what we tried to do and we thought he was well prepared for that. But the margins in the top are small. I'm hoping that this doesn't have to be that bad because if, if, if he would be out now for a few weeks, that would put him back. So let's wait. Jeremie is a hamstring issue. He came back from a hamstring injury a few weeks ago and played for the national team one game, came back to us and now unfortunately after 10, 15 minutes, I don't know, he had to go off.

On whether this is a 'new injury' for Isak...

He did not come back [from the international break] with an injury. I said that he missed out [on] pre-season and didn't train for a long time with the team. He came on the first of September, so we had to bring him towards once a week and now we try to bring him to twice a week, which he did for the national team. But he was perfectly fit when he came back from the national team and he was perfectly fit before the United game, and we were expecting him to be ready to play again today – which he did but he felt his groin, indeed, a little bit.

On whether 'it is possible for a player to catch up after missing pre-season'...

I don't think there's a rule that every single player is the same. But it also depends on what did he do when he didn't train with the team, what is the impact if you go to a new club as a big signing? So you cannot compare maybe a player that hasn't trained or played in pre-season at a smaller club than if you go to Liverpool. There are many factors that you have to take into account and there's not one thing if it's possible or not. I think we did exactly what was needed, we were really careful with him. The Swedish national team in the first time as well. They played him twice last time, which he could do, so not criticising the Swedish national team because we actually told them that he's ready to play twice. It's a thin balance if you missed out on pre-season. Some march through it and some unfortunately get injured again.