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ARNE SLOT PRE-MATCH PRESS CONFERENCE
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Reds boss Arne Slot speaks to the media ahead of Liverpool's trip to Turkish giants Galatasaray in the Champions League.
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Federico's Injury and Upcoming Matches
00:00:56
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on it Obviously, Federico hasn't travelled. He has been added to the Champions League squad, though so what's the situation with him? Yeah, he got a little niggle, I think is the word used here in England, so in in in in the last game against Palace. He tried it today, he was on the pitch in the beginning, but he couldn't end the session. So, we decided not to take him, because in a few days it's ah it's Chelsea again.
Reacting to Disappointment
00:01:21
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The obvious answer is a win, but also in terms of the performance as well, what's the key element that you're really looking for in terms of a reaction to the disappointment of Saturday? I think we always have to do, no matter if we win, lose or draw, what is asked from you if you want to compete for trophies, but let alone if you wear the Liverpool shirt, and that is giving everything you have, and combine that with the best football you can play in, I think, especially in the second half,
00:01:50
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ah we Not especially, we created during the course of the game against Palace more chances than we've created in all the free games we've played before against Palace, but we conceded also much more chances than we did before when we played Palace. So we can definitely improve on a few things, and the things we can improve um I will show tonight.
00:02:15
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Not to you, by the way, but to the players.
Liverpool's Winning Strategy and Transfers
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Welcome to breaking in the world football. I mean, since 2021 Feyenoord and other teams, you have... welcome to turkey first of all you are probably record breaking in the world football but i mean since two twenty twenty one with liver with fordt and other teams you have been ahead in 170 games and lost in very few matches in those matches that you became ahead. So when you score and become ahead, you lose a very few matches. What's the reason behind that?
00:02:52
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And also, secondly, you have brought a lot of strikers, a lot of star players to your team. And Galatasaray bought Ossiman, Victor Ossiman. Was Ossiman on your agenda during the summer transfer window to bring your club? What would you say on that?
00:03:08
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Those were a lot of questions. um I wasn't aware of it. and He told me that in 170 games that I'm managing now, most that we came 1-0 up or 2-0 up, that we won those games. That was the reason behind it.
00:03:24
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and The reason is always quite simple. I've been really fortunate to manage two very good clubs, two very good teams that are always playing in the top end of the table. So, yeah, the the players always make the difference, I don't know who asked, but that helps, of course, by winning so many games if you go 1-0 up.
00:03:42
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ah Yes, we've added two number nines. um um How should I say this in in in the right way in English? um Unfortunately, it's not the word I should use, but but because of an enormous tragedy that happened with Djokovic Jota,
00:03:59
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In the end we had to bring in two ah number nines. We always thought we were going to replace Darwin Nunez with one number nine, but in the end we had to replace, not not to replace not a good word, so I'm sorry if I don't use the right words, but we had to bring in ah to The number nine number nine.
Challenges Against Organized Defenses
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We are always looking for very good players.
00:04:27
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um But it was always clear to us that from the start we wanted to bring in these two if we needed to. ah from yeah
00:04:39
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is supposed are that he niji topa sa poland In terms of possession, we are watching a Liverpool that tries to keep hold on to possession. But for example, despite runs like by Burnley and others, we haven't been able to see a Liverpool that can really focus on attacks.
00:05:06
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and Do you think you might have troubles in the future in attacking football despite having possessions? Are you having difficulty finding chances?
00:05:17
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We don't play football to have possession, we play football to to create chances and In most games we've played since I'm here and I think that's the situation. As long as Liverpool exist, they have more ball possession than the other team.
00:05:33
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And sometimes the other team doesn't bother. They are completely fine with the fact that we have more poll position than them because they just defend really strong. and In modern football it's it's it's more and more complicated because all teams are managed so well, are so fit, it's getting harder and harder to play through.
00:05:53
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And that's why we we decided also to bring in good attackers, good players that can play in the front four, that can help us unlocking and those low blocks. But that that's never easy, not for us, not for any team in the world.
Galatasaray's Performance and Coaching Insights
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so yeah yeah ah Reza Njetisch, Ekoisport.
00:06:19
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stream from Galatasaray has been defeated against Frankfurt. They conceded five goals. The previous match Galatasaray conceded five goals was against Besiktas back when Giovanni van Bronkhorst was the coach of Besiktas.
00:06:35
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So did you conduct many different talks or analysis with Van Bronkhorst or did he inform you about some specifics, some tips that you can use on this match tomorrow against Galatasaray?
00:06:51
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Giovanni van Bronkast is one of my assistant coaches. so He's part of the set-up, if we discuss and talk about the team we face, if that is Palace or Everton or Atletico Madrid or in this situation Galatasaray. He has knowledge about Turkish football, he knows these players, some of them, that we're going to face tomorrow maybe better than the rest of the staff does because we've we've not worked in this league, we've not played against them.
00:07:20
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But in modern football there are so many videos, you can watch so many games that every manager, even if you haven't worked here, knows a lot about the other team. So yes, we've used Gio as we've used the other assistant coaches as well.
00:07:32
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And that was a very special evening for him. They won the Super Cup, if I'm correct, in that evening. ah So special, he's known for winning a lot of trophies, Gio, in Holland, and he did this here as well.
00:07:46
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ah What was your other question? Oh, yeah, their loss against Frankfurt. I've watched that game and for me they were very, very very very unlucky in that game. um the the The chances they gave away were only small and and and it was either the quality of Frankfurt or a little bit of bad luck for Galatasaray that they conceded five because if if the same game They played the same game again, they will never ever ever concede five goals again in that same game. because They played much better than than the 5-1 showed. And that's also what you see now in the beginning of the season here in in Turkey. Seven wins, only conceded two if I'm correct.
00:08:29
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Scored a lot of goals, so a very very good team with a very good manager that's been so successful over here as a player and as a manager. So they know what it takes to win the league and they know what it takes to win a game of football, so we have to be prepared for ah for that.
Liverpool's Defensive Focus and Set-Piece Strategy
00:08:44
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Good evening, Arne. I know you've changed your full-backs from last season, but at the start of last season you kept six clean sheets in your first ten games. So far you've kept two c clean sheets in your first nine games.
00:08:56
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How would you analyse your defence this season? and I almost like that you asked me this question, because for me defending is only a small margin, defenders.
00:09:09
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So I think one of our strengths was that we kept the other team away from our goal a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot. And that normally doesn't start with your defenders, that starts somewhere else.
00:09:19
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and um if you're done Just look in it more detailed. um We've conceded four goals from set-pieces. ah so um um So, yeah, we've changed our full-backs, we've changed a bit more than only our full-backs. and The goals we've conceded, i should look back at it in detail, but the first thing that comes to my mind is not that the full-backs are our problem.
00:09:50
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um It's ah always been a team performance last season, as said this many times. the way The reason why we hardly concede is that 11 players work incredibly hard to make it difficult for the other team to even create a chance.
00:10:04
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And that's what we've done this season many times as well, but um you can work as hard as you want, but a set-piece is almost... ah different game inside the game. um and um That was, by the way, that would have been maybe even a better question, that was one of our main strengths last season, that we hardly conceded from set-pieces.
00:10:24
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So we have to go back to that, we haven't changed our set-up, we haven't changed anything, so we have to prove in the upcoming weeks and months that we were maybe a bit unlucky in conceding some set-pieces, because that can happen in and in five or six games, difficult to see it for the long-term.
Set-Pieces in Modern Football
00:10:41
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But it's something we have to we definitely have to improve because I also see teams in the Premier League that win games by set pieces and we lose games because of set pieces.
00:10:54
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James? and Ana, just in terms of how intimidating the atmosphere is going to be here tomorrow night, what does your team need to do differently to avoid gifting Galatasaray the initiative in the same way as Palace were allowed to to be on the front foot so early on on Saturday?
00:11:09
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Yeah, that it depends on what you mean with the initiative, because for me Palace didn't have the initiative if you talk about ball possession, because even the first eight minutes were perfectly fine for me, till we've conceded a corner.
00:11:22
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ah You can debate, by the way, if it was a corner, yes or no. So, you had to answer to the fact why I got a yellow. um And then we conceded a corner and then...
00:11:34
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they've created we've conceded too many chances, but it wasn't because they had the initiative, it was because they counter-attacked us a few times really well. and um And we lost the ball in positions where we shouldn't have lost it So we have to do much better than this, I'm not sitting here telling you we played a good first half, not telling you that having initiative in a game is something that is worth a lot, no. If you have initiative, it should lead to chances, and it should definitely not lead to conceding chances.
00:12:01
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But it wasn't that we were that they they were all over us. They counter-attacked us a few times really well and we didn't do as well as we did ever had to do. And they played a few times the ball into our last line where they won the second ball.
00:12:16
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And that is something... We need to improve. But Galatasaray is a completely different team to Palace, but also a team that's very hard to beat, similar to Palace.
00:12:29
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18 games without a loss to Palace. This team have and have won the first seven games in the league. So that means that they are mentally also strong for difficult moments. If you win a lot, then you're also ah mostly mentally a bit stronger.
00:12:41
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So, a very difficult team to team to face, but if with both with a lot of qualities, but you cannot compare these teams. One is playing 5-4-1, the other one is playing 4-3-3, so different players, different manager, different formation.
00:12:57
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ah Last question there, please.
00:13:00
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butulta azundja candidate is a delayy So, you have mentioned this as well about Galatasaray. 24 out of 91 goals scored by Galatasaray last season was from set pieces, including penalties.
00:13:15
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Just like you said, you have been really doing well last season in set pieces, but this year not as much. Galatasaray has Gabriel Sarra. and very effective player in set pieces. But after Ilkay Gündogan was brought into the team, Gabriel Real-Sara is now mostly a substitute. Do you think it will be an advantage for you that Sara might not play tomorrow in terms of set pieces, considering how effective he is in those?
00:13:42
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No, I think you already gave the answer. ah we've We've shown that we are a team that that can defend set pieces really well. But ah more and more in football, you see it becomes more and more a set-piece game.
00:13:54
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ah and I know that set pieces are a part of football, but I watched the Brentford Man United on the way up to to Palace and I saw, I think, 25 minutes of that game and I think it was 20 minutes Long throw-in, set-piece, corner kick, goal kick. A goal kick is not a set-piece, by the way.
00:14:14
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ah So, this is this is the style of football you see more and more, in my opinion, mainly in the Premier League. because And there's a reason for me why it's even more done in the Premier League than other leagues, because in the Premier League you can do much more. You can attack a goalkeeper, for example.
00:14:30
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ah You can even touch him and then it's not even a foul. This is something everybody likes about the Premier League, but in Europe this is... Definitely a bit different. But we knew that Galatasaray is also strong in set pieces. But I can tell you that we are we've been a force in set pieces last season. We won our last Champions League game because of a set piece.
00:14:51
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We scored a 3-2 with Virgil. We were very, very, very close of scoring one against Palace. So, yeah, every team you face at the moment, you have to be so, so, so well prepared when it comes to set-pieces.
00:15:04
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So, ah back in the days when I was still playing, we only talked about football and there was not even a set-piece goal, let alone there was a set-piece meeting. Nowadays, set-piece meetings take just as long as the tactical meeting or the preparation for the game, football-wise.
00:15:20
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So, that tells you the importance of... We give to set-pieces and I think every team around Europe gives to set-pieces. Thank you very much, guys.