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Did he leave?
Could be the return of Rebel.
He got a temporary ban.
Can AI cite youtube videos (admittedly incorrectly)?
No idea.
Maybe they are AI assisted posts
I have criticized Arne Slot prior that he is clueless about LFC. But look what he says here. Here he says that in retrospect he might have rotated a player to avoid potential injury given the early Saturday kick-off following a Wednesday Champions League night game. That is a great thing for him to say. And it would be great if he were truly to have an open mind about rotation like that. And not just about Alisson. But about every single player in his squad.
He could have said the same thing about Jota who picked up an injury and was overplayed during the first stretch of games. He took Jota out of the starting eleven only because of that. And that is a problem that he should also approach in some major retrospect.
Somewhere I think towards the beginning of this press conference he also mentioned that many players came back from the international break with all sorts of knocks/problems/issues. He should also approach that problem in some major retrospect. He cannot control what happens to the players at the international breaks, how much they play, etc. But as a Liverpool manager he must take such things into account because that will affect him and his players.
Rotation is something he must always think about when it comes to all of his players regardless of who they are. He must approach Salah like that, Jota, Diaz, TAA, Gravenberch, VVD and all of his other favourite players too. He must develop expertise in that because all of those players are different and have different rotation needs. But this what he says here is a great early sign that he is open to such things.
So he subbed Salah and rotated him out of a game. And now he already says this about rotation in a press conference. He appears willing to learn as quickly as he can. And that is a good thing.
He faces a very steep, steep learning curve. But this what he has stated here I see as a good and positive sign.
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Great interview from the boss. He seems more willing to show his personality lately.
Me too. He's definitely growing into the role.
It’s interesting that we have less possession per game now than under Klopp. And this is the average after playing mostly low ranking teams this season. That’s definitely not Slot’s ideal style.
So we’re not seeing the best of Slot yet. Wonder if it’s only something we’ll see changing with new players, or whether he can coach it into the team.
So we’re not seeing the best of Slot yet. Wonder if it’s only something we’ll see changing with new players, or whether he can coach it into the team.
Don’t think it’s by design - clearly you can see once we’re in possessiom we want to keep the ball and be more patient with it, so I guess the issue is more out of possession. Compared to Klopp’s team, our press under Slot had been more passive, we prefer to drop back into position rather than going all out to win the ball, so we’re harder to play through and create good chances against, but also don’t win back possession as often.
Against Chelsea the opponent’s tactics almost forced us to play long balls in behind a lot more than Slot would have normally liked, but that’s where all the space was. So as a result the game became a bit chaotic and stretched not unlike some games under Klopp.
More silly than controversial.
Our run this season so far brings into focus something I’ve been thinking about - it’s all well and good talking about identity and building a cohesive style of football, but with the tactical variety in the game these days each and every game presents a different challenge and sometimes you have to do radically different things in order to win. A few teams we faced this season played with a man-to-man marking system, which used to be a rarity but is now gaining followers in several leagues, some were more conventional, only Forest so far tried a low block. Some pressed us high, some flooded the midfield, some tried to control possession and others like Brentford were all about the long ball and set pieces.
All of these opponents required different solutions to overcome the problems they posed and in almost all the games so far, we managed to find them. Maybe in time that knack for finding solutions will become its own sort of an identity and let’s hope it does. But so far it’s hard to make generalizations about this team and Slot’s style, because they were forced to play - and win - in so many different ways. If’s a far cry from the likes of City and Arsenal who seem to play a variation of the same match for the majority of their season.
All of these opponents required different solutions to overcome the problems they posed and in almost all the games so far, we managed to find them. Maybe in time that knack for finding solutions will become its own sort of an identity and let’s hope it does. But so far it’s hard to make generalizations about this team and Slot’s style, because they were forced to play - and win - in so many different ways. If’s a far cry from the likes of City and Arsenal who seem to play a variation of the same match for the majority of their season.
We defeated them 4-1 in the same fixture last year.
Yeah, but they were not the same team then in terms of form and performance. Before yesterday they had lost twice in 22 games and not since City beating them.
We’ve equalled our wins against the top six in two games this season. Big test on Sunday though.
I was reading somewhere that this could also have been by Slot's design. Chelsea play a lot, and are good, on the break. By giving up more possession and remaining more compact it nullifies their strengths to some degree but emphasises ours (pressing and breaking) and we could see far more long balls too - esp. from Virgil and Kelleher. If that was true then it worked as they created hardly anything and we should have done better with the breaks we had than 2 goals.
Jesus, how high do you think your pedestal is?
