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ARNE SLOT PRE MATCH PRESS CONFERENCE
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Reds boss Arne Slot speaks to the media ahead of Saturday's PL clash at Selhurst Park
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Leone's Injury & Squad Adjustments
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Arna, just to check first of all, how is Giovanni Leone? What's the prognosis there? And on the flip side of the disappointment for him, does it also open up a place in the Champions League squad for Federico Chiesa now?
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Yeah, the last thing is true. And the first thing, he's not in a good place, of course, because... He tore his ACL, which means that he he will be out for around a year.
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so Being so young, coming to a new country, playing so well in your first game, it's very hard to take the positive side. No, there's never a positive side, but yeah you always try to look at a positive side, and that is that he's still so young, so that he has so many years still to go after he recovers from a terrible injur injury like that.
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How much of a blow is it for you? I know you're talking about the human being there, but also squad-wise, because you faced Crystal Palace this weekend and I suppose with Marc Gay lining up on their side, there might be a sense of what might have been given what happened on um transfer deadline day.
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Yeah, but I don't think two or three days before earth two sorry one day before we play and them to talk about that again. um He's a Crystal Palace player and he's been very important for them as long as he's there.
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So, we have to prepare for Crystal Palace, who are a very good team. think they haven't lost 17 games in a row now and he's part of that team. So, um difficult team to beat, but we are also a difficult team to beat. As we've shown when we played against each other, because we've beaten them once with 1-0 and twice it was a draw.
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so um And i have we have more than enough options to replace, if needed, a player at centre-back position, because of course we've got Virgil, Joe and Ibu, and other options if needed.
Player Fitness & Club Environment
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Is Alexander Isak ready to start now, obviously, thinking with no Hugo Ekotike in particular? yeah Yeah, he's able to make minutes again. I still feel 90
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Depends also on the pace and the intensity of the game, but that might be a bit too much. But not only that, also for the long term, so you can give a player maybe one, I would call stupid, hit to bring him to 90 and then his body is completely... You brought him too far over the line, so I don't think he's it's smart to play him 90 yet.
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But yeah, he's further into his pre-season now and normally after two or three weeks in pre-season, players go to 60, 70. minutes and in some clubs they even bring them to 90, but if you look at our pre-season, we mainly bring them to 60 to 70 minutes. Can you just check on Hugo as well? There's been a report that he's been disciplined over his sending off the other night. Has he been fine or anything like that? of discipline means that I spoke to him, then it's discipline, but I don't think that it's discipline. So a discipline means a fine and that he didn't get. So it wasn't...
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Very smart what he did, what he recognized himself ah immediately straight away. So he said sorry straight away to his teammates. and um He's young, ah players of all ages do make mistakes and that's what he did in this situation as well, but we all make mistakes and um you're allowed ah this club to make a mistake without immediately getting fines or these kind of things.
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He's a fantastic human being, I think if you talk to all the staff members and you would ask them a top three of the warmest persons and the most polite persons, I think he's in every staff member's top three.
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So even if he wasn't a person like this, he was able to make a mistake. But um wasn't smart. it hurt It didn't hurt us wednesday Tuesday evening. It might hurt us a bit more tomorrow. The positive thing is that Federico Chiesa showed that he is he's he's showing himself at the moment. So it's also a chance for him now to be on the bench and maybe keep the pain minutes with Hugo not being there.
Coaching Milestones & Education
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Hello again, Anna. Your next point that you pick up will be your 100th Premier League point for Liverpool. If you do it in the next four games, you'll be the fastest in club history to have done that in your first whatever matches.
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and So what do you think that maybe you've learnt over the previous 99 points here at the club? who ah What did I learn? um I think a lot. um This has nothing to do with your question, but one of my frustrations is that... I don't know it's the same in England, by the way, but we as managers have to get points to keep having our badge. Is that the way you say it? To stay a manager. In Holland, every three years you need to do some schooling. Is that the right word?
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Education, yeah, ah to stay manager. I find this ridiculous because I learn every single day, I improve every single day, I don't need to go to a course to learn if you are working.
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So um I don't know if it's the same in England, but every three years we need to do ah we need to do this, otherwise you cannot stay. bades yeah Yeah. Yeah. But if you've done it, do you need to every time to educate the refreshing courses? Yeah. Now for me, every day is ah for me, every day is a refreshing course.
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So I'm a bit ah surprised that we need to do this. So yeah, yes, I've learned ah lot, but not only here at Feyenoord and at Azad Alkmaar as well. I cannot come up with one specific thing, maybe what I've learned, but if you have to make every single day 10, 15, 20 choices, not all of them are good.
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and Definitely not. So you learn every single day and I cannot come up with one specific thing. So Crystal Palace again, and you'll see them again in the Cappabar Cup soon also. and You're the only two teams that are unbeaten in the Premier League this season.
Crystal Palace's Defense Strategy
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What is the biggest threat that that they have against stopping Liverpool continuing that run? discipline They have an enormous discipline defensively.
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ah Ten outfield players plus a goalkeeper that worked so hard to prevent the other team from scoring. and um We saw this also in the charity hill charity shield, even the moments when we were up,
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they could still be very disciplined and calm in their own half, in their mid to low block. And we saw this during the week when we played Southampton, who were disciplined against us, how hard it is to play through ah play through them. so um And apart from that, but that's for every team in ah in the Premier League, they have some individual qualities, some individual players.
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who are a big threat offensively, Mateta is one of them. Asar, who wasn't available last week but might be available this week again, was really good against us in the charity shield. Two midfielders that know how to play.
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Yeah, and good centre-back, so... Good wing-backs. So, a good team, but that is what I would say every Premier League team has, but what maybe stands out for me with them is their discipline and their defensive work.
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Thank you.
Liverpool's Season Start & Talent Management
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Hi Anna, you're looking to keep your perfect start to the Premier League season intact. Has it taken even you by surprise from what you put it down to?
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Surprises may be bit too strong to say, but if you would have asked me that after playing Newcastle away, Arsenal at home and all these difficult games we had, that we would have the maximum result, would have probably told you that is um I would sign for that straight away, which is normal.
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ah But if you look at the games, they were all of them moat not all the most of them were quite close. So we might have been a bit lucky as well to get the maximum points. Although...
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I was just saying about the work rate of Palace, we work incredibly hard as well and if you work as hard as we do, you give yourself the chance maybe to be a bit lucky, if you would call it luck down.
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I don't think we stole owe win, it wasn't as if we totally not deserved it, but there were games that a draw would have been maybe more fair. um So, yeah, looking at the schedule we had, I'm more than pleased that we have the maximum points.
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Mjolnkeberg will be with his first contract as well. He's still so young at 17. Do you have to work about keeping expectations down or are you just happy to to let him go for it? The good thing is if you are a youngster playing at Liverpool, there are players who are still better than you are.
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and That i think helps to stay stay grounded and to know who there are still steps to make. If you are at playing at maybe yeah a club of a lower level and you are that that good as Rio, you maybe belong straight away to the best players of the team.
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and That can lead to maybe... a situation where he's not as grounded as he should be, but here that's not a problem at all. First of all, because who he is. He's a player that constantly wants to improve, but if you train and play with with other wingers like Cody Kakpo, Mo Salah, Federico Kiesa and all the others, then um then I think he feels that there's still a step to make.
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First of all, to get their level to their level and if he is at their level, then it's about being as consistent as these players are. And that is the most difficult thing.
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become really good is something a lot of players maybe can do, but become consistently really good is why the top players stand out.
Injury Recovery Support
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stand out
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um just from giovan daasate to them and How important are people like Virgil and Joe Gomez both suffered the same injury earlier on their career? and How important are they going to be in terms of the breakout? And also, as an example for him, it feels like the end of the world at the minute, but you can come back just as good as you were before. Yeah.
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I think that that last thing definitely helps. and We have some examples of that with Virgil and Joe. and There are a lot of examples all around the world. That's why I said the positive thing is that he's still 18. He has a still a lot of time to go. If you get an injury like that when you're close to your retirement, it makes it much much more difficult. maybe But in both situations, it's far from ideal.
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um I think the main and most important thing is the surgeons who are going to do the surgery, then second of all the ones that do the recovery, the rehab with him. But then it's always nice if you can do this in a surrounding ah with players that have lived through this as well, they can give you the right energy maybe.
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in certain moments and i think our players already showed in the last two days uh a lot of compassion is compassion towards him and they will not stop doing that for yeah in the in upcoming year
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You mentioned at start about Federico Kier, is it possibly coming into the Champions League squad? Is that something you have looked into and started that process perhaps? Yeah, we've we've looked into this. I don't know, I cannot tell you exactly where that process is at the moment, do do you know?
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You're not sure as well. So um that is not something I do myself, there are other people doing this. um But if I'm informed correctly, if a player has a longer than two-month injury, you are able to replace him.
00:12:36
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That's what they've told me and now we have to see if it's true or not. sad But other people are looking into that.
Scoring Challenges Against Crystal Palace
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You've spoken before about Crystal Palace and how hard they work to stop other teams scoring goals. I think they've only conceded three in their eight games in all competitions this season. How much confidence do you take from your scoring record in the Premier League? i think it's 39 consecutive games and not only that, 11 different scorers already this season. So you've got attacking weapons all over the pitch. yeah.
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Yeah, we do, but even we find it very hard to score goals against them. In the three games we've played them two twice, we only scored one goal. and in one ah One time that was enough for the win. And once we scored two, but they scored two as well. so um it's um it's ah It's a difficult team to score goals against. The good thing for us is, in if you tell me now that they've probably kept a few clean sheets then as well, if they only conceded three, that we were till now able to score against them. but um They've improved, especially compared to the first time we played them, that was the beginning of last season.
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and um yeah We have that's true players that can score goals, we have the quality as a team to create chances for our front three players or front four players.
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ah But um yeah it's because of the way they play, the way they line up with a 5-2-3 or whatever you want to call it, 5-4-1, it's not easy to to create and that's why when we create,
00:14:13
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It would be yeah we be smart then to score as soon as we can. Could be another late goal then, if you have patience against a team working as hard as they are to to stop the opponents from scoring goals.
00:14:24
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Yeah, but you can only score a winner in the end if you worked as hard as we always do to prevent the other team from scoring as well, because otherwise you're already to nil down. ah because ah You do see teams that attack a lot, that get frustrated a bit and then in transition don't spin back as hard as we do. But we just keep working and keep understanding that we can still win the game in the end as long.
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as it's then 0-0 or 1-1 or 2-2. Therefore, we work really hard and that is one of our strengths and that's what we have to bring to every game, especially if we face Crystal Palace, who are a big threat on the counter-attack, because they are so disciplined in defence and NK transitions really fast and they are a big threat in set-pieces as well.
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So, ah two things we have to be really yeah ready for.
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