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Liverpool boss Arne Slot said newly promoted Ipswich will post a tough test for his side in the Dutchman's first Premier League game in charge Melwood, Liverpool, UK

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00:00Arno, when you're coming off the pre-season that's been so analysed,

00:04intently watched from the outside,

00:06how excited are you to get the first game under way that actually means something?

00:11For me, the games in pre-season meant something as well,

00:14although you don't get points for it,

00:16but I think it's important to prepare the team for the Premier League.

00:20Now we are excited to start the season against a promoted team

00:25that did really, really well in the last few years under their manager,

00:28and it's interesting to see what's going to happen tomorrow.

00:33How hard is it to prepare for a match against a team

00:37that had a 22-year absence from the Premier League?

00:40Not harder than if you had to prepare them for a team

00:44that was in the Premier League for 22 years,

00:47because we also saw their games from last season,

00:50we saw their games in pre-season,

00:52so I don't think that's more difficult

00:54than if they would have been in the Premier League for a long time.

00:57It is true that in a newly promoted club there's a lot of positivity around a club like this.

01:03As people told me, every game in the Premier League is going to be an intense game,

01:11and there are no easy games, and that is something we can expect tomorrow as well.

01:18A promoted team that only had a lot of positives in recent years

01:23will come up against us, really looking forward to it.

01:27But we are really looking forward to the game as well.

Always tough against newly promoted team - Slot

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