Arne Slot has revealed that he spoke with Jurgen Klopp to ensure that Liverpool does not suffer from the Premier League as last season.
Liverpool was clearly at the top after beating Chelsea on January 31 before they stumbled the run-in to finish third, nine points behind Champions Manchester City. Slot can see the statistics in black -white and spoke with Klopp when he succeeded him to get his thoughts about what went wrong.
The head coach of Reds has made changes to ensure that Liverpool retains their momentum – but will not say what they are. “It's not something new,” he said.
“I heard about the five points and I knew that the team was better in the first half of the season than in the second half of the season. Okay, what do you think of why this happened?
“And even the first time or the second time I spoke to Jurgen, we talked about that. What was his opinion, why they may have been immersed a bit in the end?
“But I think you can't compare with this season last season, although there may be certain things that we are just trying to implement. You are now going to ask me what they are, but I'm not going to give you an answer! “
Liverpool paralyzed in the last few months and they sometimes missed almost a whole team with people like Alisson, Andy Robertson, Ibrahima Konate, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Dominik Szoboszlai, Ryan Gravenberch, Diogo Jota and Mohamed Salah. Slot was lucky with injuries and he has almost all his big players available.
“I said this season that every point we have, we have earned,” he said. “If that was also the situation last season, because he is clear five points, it is still a disappointment.
“But if they might have been lucky in the first half of the season, then it is no surprise that things have changed in the second half of the season. It does not mean that things cannot change now because we have to keep doing the things we do.
“We are not allowed to touch any injuries and all things like this. All players are important, but there are a few that are a little more important than maybe some of the others, so there is a lot to play for. “
Former Feyenoord -Baas Slot will make changes to the Champions League match on Wednesday in his old Rivals PSV Eindhoven with Liverpool with already the last 16 and Federico Chiesa is expected to make his second start for the Reds.
Chiesa, 27, has a goal and an assist to his eight performances and Slot wants to give the Italy International more playing time to build up its matchfitness. Liverpool only needs a point to be over the group phase and Conor Bradley, Jarrel Quansah, Wataru Endo and Harvey Elliott could also begin.
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