Slot makes ‘weird’ Liverpool comment about Leicester City win | OneFootball

Arne Slot says Liverpool are taking the season “game by game” after moving clear of their title rivals at the top of the Premier League table.

The Reds came from behind to beat Leicester City at Anfield on Boxing Day as Cody Gakpo, Curtis Jones and Mo Salah all found the net after Jordan Ayew opened the scoring.

Despite going behind just five minutes after the game kicked off, Slot believes that Liverpool started the contest strongly.

“Sounds weird, but we had a really good start,” the Dutchman told Amazon Prime Video after the final whistle.

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Arne Slot makes ‘weird’ Liverpool comment about Leicester win

“But then one moment where we underestimated the situation that led to a chance and a goal. You have to work really hard to come back into the game, it really helped that we scored the equaliser before half-time.

“In the last few games every chance we concede they go in.

“I think there was a second chance in the second half and those were the only times they even come close. We created enough, but because when we went 1-0 down it was a game. Then you saw how good we are and they didn’t want to come back into the game.

“I liked the second goal, for me that was a team goal with the overlapping run. We want to bring our wingers into threatening situations.

“Deep runs are the most important thing in football. You would not always have to play the player who makes the deep run.”

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Leaders Liverpool now find themselves seven points ahead of nearest rivals Chelsea, who lost to Fulham earlier in the day, with a game in hand. But Slot isn’t getting ahead of himself at the halfway point of the campaign.

“Bit of a boring answer and as a manager you go game by game – you know how many games you have to play,” he said.

“So many teams have so much quality. If this happened in the Eredivisie I would say okay that is true.”

Asked for an update on contract negotiations with Trent Alexander-Arnold, Salah and Virgil Van Dijk, Slot responded: “We don’t talk about contracts in public.

“It is not up to me to talk about those situations in public. Mo Salah had a good game, Virgil had a good game, Trent, especially in the second half was very good.”

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