Slot on Liverpool's 1-0 win at Leipzig

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Slot on Liverpool's 1-0 win at Leipzig  23/10/2024  Red Bull Arena, leipzig, Germany

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00:00On the end of the win, will it be more complicated than you think?

00:04Yeah, I don't think we started the game really well in the first 10, 15 minutes,

00:09but after that I liked a lot what I saw.

00:14Many, many times we played through their press,

00:18opened up their midfield and went for an attack.

00:21That led to the first goal, that led to a few chances, more than a few,

00:26and in the end it's a pity that you still need your two centre-backs

00:31to play such a big game, and your goalkeeper to make two such important saves,

00:35because a game like this should have been ours after 70 minutes,

00:40and it wasn't, and that's why the last 20 were still difficult for us.

00:45Chris, this side?

00:46You've seen Darwin score many, many goals,

00:50are you happy he scored that type of goal?

00:53I'm always happy if we score a goal, and I'm not that much into who scores it,

00:58but it's always good to see all of our players scoring goals,

01:03and I think the lead-up to the goal with Cody and Mo,

01:06they were just as important in the goal as Darwin was.

01:09What I liked from Darwin was that he was also strong, comfortable on the ball,

01:13kept the ball a lot, fighting if he had to defend,

01:17so he made it a really difficult game for the two centre-backs of Leipzig.

01:23And then for him scoring, I think that's always nice,

01:26especially for a striker, to be on the score sheet.

01:32You spoke yesterday about not dominating against Chelsea,

01:36was it more of the same tonight, and is that concerning?

01:39You were not inside the stadium?

01:42You were, and you thought we didn't dominate?

01:45At the start, no, and at the finish.

01:49Oh, yeah, but if you play big teams, and you play a Group 1 team in an away game,

01:53there will always be moments in the game that the other team has some moments as well,

01:58and I think one of them was from a corner kick.

02:01But the way I looked at this game was that we had for a large part of the game total dominance,

02:09like in all the other games we played except for the one against Chelsea.

02:13So I'm not worried at all about this game,

02:17I was a bit more worried, if you want to call it like this, after the Chelsea game.

02:22But this is how I like to see our team play, much more chances than the other team,

02:26much more ball possession, much more time freeing up the midfield from build-up.

02:32So that was good, but I agree with you, maybe you were only there for the first ten in the last 20,

02:39that there were also difficult phases in the game,

02:41but at this level that is what happens in football.

02:44Jürgen, do you want to ask a question?

02:46No.

02:48Well done.

02:50Oh, he wants to have one more, yeah, you get one more.

02:52Maybe a chance to ask a question.

02:54I just wanted to ask, you brought Sauer on, was that with Sunday in mind?

03:00Also, it's a tough fixture list that we have,

03:08so I said before the game about Curtis Jones also

03:12that he hasn't played 90 minutes yet,

03:14he only played two times, 75, 80, 85 minutes.

03:18He's not used to playing two games so fast in a row.

03:20We have some injuries now, so I have to take good care of the players that have played a lot.

03:26Mo is one of them, and Sunday is a big game, he's coming up again.

03:30So I need to use as many players as I can for these tough weeks and these tough months,

03:38because not only these weeks, it's tough months that are coming up,

03:42so that they are all prepared to play.

03:44Chris, one more, then we'll be done.

03:46You've got a few more records against United,

03:48you know that the full-team effort won't be up,

03:50but there's got to be more than 14, 15, 16 away games this season.

03:54Do you think you should be proud?

03:58Yeah, I think I said before, not that we have so many records, but with the other record,

04:04that we should be proud because so many great teams have won this shirt,

04:10so many great managers have been in this club.

04:13So if you can achieve something that hasn't been achieved before,

04:16that's almost impossible at a big club like this.

04:20And to achieve it is always nice, but I said it also about the other records,

04:24records are nice, but there's something else that's more nice than records,

04:29and we both know what I mean, I think.

04:32And that's trophies.

04:34Thank you, everyone.

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