Liverpool -Manager Arne Slot agrees with Manchester City star Ruben Dias who has put opponents of the Premier League for their tactics and calls on authorities to find an answer
Arne Slot has called the Dark art tactic that he sees as one big scourge on the Premier League. After winning the title in a canter, the Liverpool -Baas decided to get his only major frustration from his chest.
Slot admitted that some teams had expertly adapted their game plans to combat the strengths of his team, but in the eleven games in which Liverpool dropped points – they have signed eight and lost three of their 36 Premier League matches – the Dutchman firmly believes that they have often been the victims of an exercise that is endemic in the competition. Waste of time.
The Liverpool coach explained: “Teams got to know us better and tried to find answers to our playing style. But one of the things you can't do anything about is that tactics are used that have nothing to do with football.
“Postponing the start of the game, pretending you are injured, takes a minute for a free kick, one minute for a complication. That is my most important worries.
“Every time we drop points, that … Keepers who did a minute and a half. If we dropped points, that tactic was used. I like to say it after winning the competition, no match lost.”
The issue of waste time is clearly ranked with lock, but he has waited for his time to express his annoyance with a practice that is increasingly prevalent. And although he did not necessarily agree with the timing of his comments – after a scoreless draw at Rock -Bottom Southampton – Slot knew where Ruben Dias came from when he criticized the approach of the home team at St Mary's.
Slot said: “Ruben Dias also said something about it, which is not always the best time to say it after dropping points. But for me he was right.
“Southampton can do what they want, but I think we should find an answer as a competition. People always tell you that the Premier League is so intense, so intense!
“But there are tactics to delay the game. I don't wake up during the night, but if I did, I might be like …” S ***! There is no answer to that kind of game. ” '
Slot's champions will be confronted on Monday evening with Brighton and the Liverpool -Baas will be an interested viewer when Manchester United and Spurs meet in the Europa League final in Bilbao on Wednesday. And Slot is of the opinion that with Champions League clubs no longer parachuted in the lesser competition after the qualifying days, the English domination of that level can become a common theme.
He said: “It would not surprise me if the Conference League and the Europa League finals were dominated by English teams in the coming years. Because in the past you could go as number two in Italy or number two in Spain and you could go back to the Europa League or the competition level.
“But now it is always the number four of Spain or the number five of Spain that has to play the number four or five or six of England. And I think England has one, money -wise, a big difference between the number five of Spain and the number five or six of England.”
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