Arne Slot has mentioned extra video games make his gamers bodily stronger after reserving an additional fixture of their packed schedule by thrashing Tottenham of their EFL Cup semi-final.
Of their thirty seventh recreation in beneath six months, the Premier League leaders won 4-0 at Anfield to seal a 4-1 combination victory and arrange a final against Newcastle at Wembley Stadium on March 16.
“Some folks assume you get drained however, so long as you handle it properly, gamers will get stronger by enjoying a number of video games,” Slot mentioned, figuring out two key components in his near-perfect begin to his tenure in his first season in cost.
“I imagine that the extra video games you play, the bodily stronger you turn into. If you happen to play extra usually collectively, you understand higher what is predicted.
“The primary time I informed [the players] deliver the ball out from the again in opposition to [different types of] press, they have been possibly like ‘OK, this must be performed’. However the extra occasions you face them, the extra it turns into pure.”
‘It’s not regular to achieve a last…even for these gamers. They’ve performed many finals nevertheless it nonetheless must be particular to go to a last’
Arne Slot says Liverpool will ‘by no means take a last as a right’
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Gakpo ‘particular’, says Slot
Fellow Dutchman Cody Gakpo levelled the tie on combination to make sure he has scored in seven succesive appearances at Anfield.
Slot praised the Netherlands worldwide, who’s the outright high scorer on this season’s EFL Cup with 5 targets, and his fellow forwards together with Luis Diaz, Diogo Jota, Darwin Nunez, Federico Chiesa and Mohamed Salah.
“We now have to verify they get in these positions so much, and due to this fact it’s a must to run so much,” Slot mentioned after Salah arrange Gakpo’s first-time strike. “That’s what they’re all doing
“Within the second half of final season, Cody was particular. Throughout Euro [2024], he was particular for Holland. It doesn’t simply come falling out of the sky. It’s one thing he was doing earlier than.”
‘I’m all the time proud to be main out the boys, however these events are particular…when the time is there, we shall be prepared’
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Liverpool fixtures
Liverpool are six factors away from second-placed Arsenal with a recreation in hand within the Premier League and into the Champions League spherical of 16.
They are going to make one of many longest journeys in English soccer once they go to second-tier Plymouth Argyle within the FA Cup on Sunday (3pm GMT).
The Reds are again in league motion once they make their rescheduled go to to arch-rivals Everton on Wednesday (7.30pm).
