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ARNE SLOT CHELSEA POST MATCH PRESS CONFERENCE
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Reds boss Arne Slot speaks to the media after Liverpool slumped to yet another defeat in the PL.
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Reflections on Consistent Challenges
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um no oh put your thoughts on that Another disappointing loss, that's clear.
00:00:42
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Another game similar to the Palace game, although the game was completely different because the playing style of both teams are completely different, but ah not similar to the Palace game where in the first half I think we played not our best football but still were able to create three big chances.
00:00:59
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They've only had one and they've immediately scored it, which was completely different to the Palace game, where Palace created lot of chances in the first half. And the second half performance, like in Palace, I liked.
00:01:12
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ah We've created more than enough chances to score more than one goal last week and today. And when we did, I think there was a period of the of the game where I felt now we're going to win it. We came a lot of times very close with chances, but also with...
00:01:28
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moments where we had a four versus three in our favour, not outplaying it well enough in in the last pass. but And in the last ten minutes it was an end-to-end game. Both teams could have won it and and we did it and Chelsea did.
Penalty Appeals and Frustrations
00:01:47
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Any complaints on the penalties? Penalty. Penalty appeals, the Ozilay one, i think they'll see supposedly one There was yeah there's the flu in the first half then the second half. Your bench, you were protesting for friend.
00:02:04
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I think you mean in the second half? The Rhys James. The second half when when Alex tried to go for the ball and he and he felt an arm and and in his hat. Unfortunately, we don't play Champions League because this week in the Champions League there was a penalty.
00:02:18
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We played Premier League and there are different standards. so We can't complain about that. it's I haven't seen it back, by the way. but If the ref in the VR says it's allowed, then it's allowed. so but yeah, you always feel a bit frustrated, maybe that's the right word, if you've conceded a penalty like this during the week.
00:02:37
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But that's not that's not fair because that's two different competitions. so
Balancing Act: High Press Style
00:02:44
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Hi, Anna. Is it fair to say you're still searching for balance? It seems to be like you know you're creating chances, but there's maybe gaps in midfield and Chelsea can play through you at times. Is there still maybe gaps that are emerging to the players don't have connections or new ones?
00:02:57
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Yeah, but I think if you play the style we play, so a high press and the style Chelsea play a high press. It would be a complete surprise if both teams, with both with the quality that both teams have have, that they never play through your press.
00:03:10
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So that would be unrealistic. So you go here to Stamford Bridge with them having eight injuries. So you're like, this can be positive. Then probably they don't have the options from the bench. But they did i still have a few good options from the bench to impact the game.
00:03:28
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So it would be unrealistic to expect that if you play Chelsea, that... They want to play out from the back that they never play through your press, as we played through their press as well.
00:03:40
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Do you think that Alexander Isak and Mo Salah are building a connection, that the front three maybe didn't always connect at times, especially in the first half? The more they play together, the more they will connect. But in the first half, mean we may ah what we had to do better, I think that's what you saw in the second half, already a little bit from the start, especially after we I had to take Konor Tejov because he felt his squad.
00:04:05
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When Ryan started to play in that position, we were able to get our attackers much more in promising situations, much more than the first half. So i for me, it wasn't the disconnection or the time we need for the forwards to do better. I think the first half was mainly that we had to do better build up.
00:04:25
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And that's what we did more and more in the second half. And that's why we created also so many good moments, chances and and moments that we could have created much more.
Team Connection and Progress
00:04:36
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Arna, obviously when you lose, will be much more focus on all the changes in the summer, and the new attackers. but i mean How close do you have this team to what you wanted, to your ideal image of it? I think you're never close to your ideal image.
00:04:54
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You have to work really hard to reach a certain level and then it's very hard in football, because you also play against very good teams, to keep that level in going. and and and What I mean by that is consistency.
00:05:07
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so But it's clear that we had our changes in the summer. Players came in in different moments. and Last week there's hardly been any training time and still we need to try to bring these players in.
00:05:23
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And if the result would have been better today with a draw or a win, which was both possible, I don't say we deserved it, a draw we definitely deserved, but then we would have had a great start to the season, if you take into account everything that what happened in the summer in Liverpool.
Injury Concerns and Defensive Dilemmas
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um Can you tell us what happened to Konate and is it a big injury? I don't know if it's a big injury, but what I do know is that he limped, is that the right the English word, a little bit. And when I asked him, he said, yeah I feel my quad a little bit. I said, OK, but then for me, all arm bells go off but got it because in another sprint, then you never know if that's going to go good. is that but to say So it was already also a substitution that I had in mind, maybe for a few minutes later or a little bit later, because...
00:06:21
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The right centre-back had a lot of ball possession and we needed to create from that position and and and we all know that Ryan is quite good in that. um So, yeah, it might be OK that he went off early enough, um but it was clear that I had to take him off because he was limping.
00:06:42
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one here then last one year hi Talking about your defence, Conat and Mandijk have played very much in these games, Conat has been injured now.
00:06:53
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How do you think you can rotate more centre-backs? How you can do this? It's not so easy to put someone else in. That's the way to rotate, but yeah if I rotate against Galatasaray, people complain that I rotate.
00:07:08
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so um So, yeah, um it is a risk of playing. We were just talking about Konate, he's playing three games now in seven or eight days with with four and a half hour a flight up and down.
00:07:23
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ah So, yeah, that's true. But yeah that is the balance you need to find ah playing a tough A game against Palace that play only long balls and every ball every corner kick is is is dangerous.
00:07:38
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So you need long and strong defenders. And I think if you play Chelsea away, you also need two centre-backs. But when we were nil down, I took the risk, if you want to call it like this, to play with a midfielder as a centre-back.
00:07:53
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i I know you mentioned in midweek about resting Mo Salah and the minutes he's had, but today he seemed to snatch a couple of chances. Do you think the team are kind of missing that clinical cutting edge from him at this moment?
00:08:07
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yeah That's then interesting. so Did he create today so much because he didn't play during the week? Or did he miss the chances because he missed a bit of sharpness that he could have had if he would have played against the Qataris? We will never know.
00:08:19
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What I like is that we brought him many times in the position he would like to be in. And I would like him to be in because he's shown in his career and since I'm here that in those positions he can score goals.
00:08:32
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And I think today he had many opportunities. to do what he's done so often, but yeah he's a human being. and It's not like every chance he gets is always a goal.
00:08:45
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We feel sometimes it is because what he's done last season and so many times. But yeah he can also have a game where where yeah so many chat so many where he has chances and and a lot of times in promising positions and don't have a goal on an assist.