Arne Slot believes that every Liverpool player must reach the standards of Mo Salah.
And the Reds boss warned his charges that even a fall of 1 percent in performance will cause them roles. Slot would like to ensure that there is no complacency among his team while they are going in tonight with Newcastle 11 points clearly at the top of the Premier League table.
The Reds have one hand on the trophy with 11 games to go and tonight's match against the Magpies is the first of seven home games in their title race Run-in. If a Liverpool player regards a sagging, they only had to look at Salah, because the Egyptian scores goals and shoot his side at the title.
Slot said: “If you want to play at this club, you have to be at its level, otherwise you are almost useless to play in this club because we only need players who are at the top of their game. Because this is one of the best or the best club in the world to play for. “
So far, Salah has 51 target statements this season with 30 goals in all competitions and 21 assists. He is the first Premier League player to score 25 goals or more and registers 15 assists or more in the same season.
But he also praised his defense in Sunday's 2-0 win in Manchester City while he continued to follow tirelessly during the enormous victory. Now the Reds are directly on the house with Arsenal who are struggling, it would be easy for some to let standards slip and eyes perhaps go to the Champions League and an upcoming collision with PSG.
Slot will not allow that and he does not believe that there is that attitude among his team if they go for three trophies this season. He said: “It's not about the result, it's about the efforts you have put. You cannot control the outcome, but you can determine what you have placed. We could not control the 97th minute event in Everton. But you just work as hard as you can. As we did against City.
“That is all we ask for. If someone no longer makes the effort, I would definitely say something about it. But these players are trained by Jurgen for so long that they know that it is all about trouble.
“Probably – I don't know – they also talk to each other if someone does 1 percent less. “That is not what we expect because they did the same for seven or eight months and they know how difficult it was to beat the three teams I just said at home and we couldn't beat Everton, we couldn't beat villa, we couldn't” ” Not beating Newcastle.
“The players probably know more than the people around us how much it needs for us to win our games. That is why I have the full confidence that we will continue to work as hard as we do. But it can lead to a draw. As we experienced in all these games that I just said. “
Slot has said that Conor Bradley will be a “number of weeks” with a hamstring injury.
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