Birthday boy Arne Slot celebrates Liverpool's 3-1 comeback win at AC Milan

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Birthday boy Arne Slot celebrates Liverpool's 3-1 comeback win at AC Milan    17/09/2024  San Siro Stadium, Milan, Italy

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00:00Hi Arne, happy birthday. Is that a very good birthday present, getting the win, coming from behind, showing the fight?

00:11Yeah, I said a few times already, normally you celebrate your birthday with your friends and your family.

00:18But this was a really good alternative to play your first Champions League game against a special club for Liverpool,

00:26but also a special club for Dutch people, in a nice venue.

00:30And then to win it the way we did, after going 1-0 down, after five minutes,

00:35with the result of Nottingham Forest still in our heads,

00:39I think it was very good to see how they took the game in their hands, the players,

00:45and in the end scored three goals and won it with 3-1.

00:56Wait for that.

01:14Yeah, I was standing just a second ago next to Clarence Seedorf on the desk,

01:19when they also talked about Ryan and Cody, and I said,

01:23it's a special place for Dutch players to play, because of the former players that have played here,

01:28and to put a performance in like this is always nice as a Liverpool player,

01:32and in a venue like this it's even nicer.

01:35You can pick these two, but I think I could pick a few others as well that played really well.

01:41And like always, it's very difficult for an individual to play well if the whole team doesn't play well,

01:46and vice versa, so the team played well, and then the individuals can shine from there.

01:53Arne, congratulations. I don't want to go on about your birthday too long,

01:56but only four other managers have won a Champions League tie on their birthday,

02:02including Sir Bobby Robson, Roberto Mancini, Arsene Wenger.

02:07It's a pretty good company.

02:09It's a pretty good company, but I hope to do more special things in the future

02:13and be in the special company of these legends of the game,

02:16instead of only winning a tie at your birthday.

02:20Hopefully in the future I'm also trying to make certain things what these top managers did,

02:29and this one is not the most important thing to get.

02:51How can I ask you this?

02:53Did you expect to find Milan so weak in the defensive phase,

02:57in the jungle, in the free-kicks, where he did two-two and then advanced?

03:06I don't look at the other team, I always look at my own team,

03:09and I think we were a bit disappointed with the result against Nottingham Forest.

03:16We were also disappointed of getting eight corner kicks and not scoring,

03:21but we were very close.

03:23We felt, with all the work we put in and set pieces,

03:26that at some moment we should get the reward,

03:29and I think we did very good set pieces, two very good headers that got us two goals,

03:34which was important because I think we were very comfortable on the ball,

03:39pressed really well, but in the end you need goals as well.

03:42We hit the crossbar a few times today out of open play,

03:45so we needed set pieces.

03:46It was good to see that we scored them,

03:48for all the work my assistant and the players put in.

03:51It's nice to see that it got rewarded today.

04:15Jürgen, how do you feel about the game against Chelsea?

04:18I think it's, if I understand you correctly,

04:23a bit the same question about us scoring set pieces,

04:27so I think I answered that one.

04:29The other one was quite tactical, and I didn't even need to understand it.

04:33Either you're even smarter than me,

04:36or you asked me something about Dom and Magallan being wingers,

04:40so maybe the translation wasn't quite right.

04:44I think both of them played a good game,

04:48but they were not playing as wingers, they were playing as midfielders,

04:53and the team took control of the ball and kept it for a long time,

04:57switched to play really well, which led to numerous chances for us.

05:01Unfortunately, we couldn't score them in the first half,

05:04but in the second half we had a great team goal,

05:06apart from the two set pieces we scored in the first half.

05:14Did you understand that one?

05:37Yeah, it sounds a bit weird if you play three, four or five minutes,

05:41and we already conceded one chance, which was offside,

05:44and afterwards you concede a goal.

05:46I'm going to tell you now that we didn't even start bad.

05:49I think we took control of the game from the start,

05:52but in the first five minutes we also lost the ball from two choices

05:57that were not the best to make, and then they could counter-attack us.

06:02Afterwards we dominated possession even more,

06:06and that didn't lead to counter-attacks from them.

06:09Although it sounds weird to say that we started well,

06:12if you concede two chances,

06:14but we took control of the ball from the start of the game,

06:17but except for the first five minutes when they had two counter-attacks,

06:20I think we dominated possession and created chances by that as well.

06:27Well done. Thank you.

06:30Unbelievable. That's fast.

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