Slot digs at Manchester United and believes Diaz will show his quality

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Liverpool boss Arne Slot has a cheeky dig at Manchester United's title hopes and believes Luis Diaz will always show his quality ahead of their clash with Wolves Melwood, Liverpool, UK

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00:00I know you've spoken generally about the depth of the forward line,

00:03can I just ask about Luis Diaz, he's had five goals this season already,

00:07and I think that's probably an area that's improved personally since last season,

00:12where he was getting in additions but not getting the goals.

00:16What's changed with him, do you think?

00:19That's difficult for me to judge because I wasn't here last season.

00:23It's still a small sample size where we are talking about,

00:27and I said before also when it comes to us winning quite a lot of games,

00:33that till now we've faced almost all the teams we've faced

00:37on the bottom league of the table, where of course we expect United

00:42to be on top of the table in the end of the season.

00:49So there's still a lot for us to prove,

00:52maybe the fixture list helped us by this amount of goals the forward scored,

00:55and let's see if we can keep scoring so many goals if the fixture list is getting harder and harder,

01:01starting tomorrow in a difficult away game against Wolves.

01:04Have you done anything specific with him in terms of improving his outputs?

01:09No, I don't think so, not particularly with him.

01:12We train on a daily basis, trying to get them as much as we can in certain situations,

01:17and then help them in the best possible way where to position themselves

01:20and what to do in certain situations.

01:26But it's mainly also in this last period of the pitch,

01:31the quality of the player and the finishing he has, and I think he always had this.

01:36And I wasn't even that aware of the fact that he...

01:38How many goals did he score last season?

01:41Eight.

01:42Eight, OK. For me he was someone who could score a goal,

01:45and eight is for his quality, not of his standards, I would say.

01:49Did he play a lot? Did he play every game?

01:51OK. Then I think he just comes back to his normal situation.

01:58Maybe he was a bit unlucky last season,

02:00but a player of his quality will always score a lot of goals in every season.

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