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Slot on Liverpool mentality as they comeback twice at Arsenal to seal a point
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27/10/2024
Slot on Liverpool mentality as they comeback twice at Arsenal to seal a point
Arsenal 2-2 Liverpool
27/10/2024
Emirates Stadium, London, UK
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00:00
How do you view that performance and result?
00:29
Going two times behind against a very strong and good Arsenal team,
00:34
then to get a point is pleasing to see,
00:38
especially because we had to play an away game in Europe this week,
00:42
we had one day less to recover and to prepare,
00:45
and then to go two times behind with the fans being so loud
00:50
and us coming back so strong in the second half,
00:53
because I think we deserved to be 2-1 down or one goal down at half-time,
00:58
it's very pleasing to see that we had the energy
01:01
and that we were so strong to fight ourselves back in the game in the second half,
01:06
also because the ones that came in did really good,
01:09
but also that we were physically really strong today.
01:12
It's another milestone for Mo, isn't it, in Premier League goal terms?
01:17
His finishing, his prolific nature in front of goal,
01:22
it's just remarkable, isn't it?
01:24
Yeah, but that's not only all, he's also available for us as well,
01:30
and that's one of the things that top players have,
01:34
that they are always available and they show up in the big games,
01:38
and I think today was a big game for us again,
01:41
just like last week against Chelsea where he showed up with a golden assist.
01:45
That's also what you need if you are a big club like we are and like Arsenal is,
01:51
you need these quality players, because if you don't have them
01:54
it's going to be quite difficult to get your results.
01:57
So it's something you need to have as a club,
02:00
to have these players that can make the difference for you,
02:03
and Mo was that today offensively,
02:06
although I think we have to give credit to Darwin and to Trent as well in that goal.
02:11
But for me the one that stood out today was...
02:15
That's a question.
02:21
He was also very good, but I think Konate was also very good for us today.
02:26
He doesn't always get the attention he deserves in my opinion,
02:29
he's asking to be the man of the match all the time.
02:32
But he's coming closer and closer and closer to achieve that,
02:37
because I think he had a great performance today as well.
02:46
Hi, just wondering where you think your team's title contenders are
02:50
after that performance?
02:53
Where we are?
02:54
Title contenders.
02:55
Oh, I know you guys like to talk about title contenders
02:59
and where we are exactly in the league, and that's also part of your job.
03:03
The only thing I look at is, can you get a result in a difficult game as this one?
03:10
And the way we did it pleased me a lot, and we're only nine or ten games into the season.
03:14
But to see that we can compete with such a strong Arsenal team in their stadium,
03:20
that is very pleasing to see.
03:23
But where that exactly will lead towards the end of the season, I cannot tell you yet.
03:29
You mentioned Konate, and you've also said that the trip he's had
03:32
and the injuries he's joined has been one of his poor careers so far.
03:35
Obviously this season he's playing three games nearly every week.
03:38
Have you done anything differently to make sure he's staying fit?
03:42
That I cannot tell you because I wasn't there last season.
03:45
The only thing I know is that these players, from the moment I stepped in,
03:50
put a lot of effort in themselves to stay fit.
03:53
I've said it many times, our performance staff and medical staff
03:56
is one of the best in the world, which is normal if you're in Liverpool,
03:59
because it's one of the best clubs in the world.
04:01
They should have a very good performance and medical staff, and that's also what we have.
04:05
But the main thing is that the players buy into it,
04:07
because they have to do the work and they have to recover,
04:10
and they have to go into ice bath and all these things we're asking from them
04:13
to be prepared in the best possible way.
04:15
And that's, until this moment, what Ibu has done and the programme we offer them
04:22
has maybe helped him a bit as well.
04:25
But in the end it's always about the players,
04:27
they have to do the effort to stay available.
04:30
James.
04:31
Arjen, what did you make of Darwin Nunez's spending?
04:34
He learned to come very deep for the staff to get involved,
04:37
but the fact that he played a part in the equaliser,
04:39
does that show the value of keeping him on and the fact that he just keeps on going?
04:43
Yeah. The last thing is also the reason why I keep him on,
04:47
because if you just keep on going I see you're fit enough to keep competing.
04:50
And that, compared to Ibu...
04:53
Oh, not compared, but also after speaking about Ibu,
04:56
that is what almost surprised me, because Darwin hasn't played that much yet.
05:01
And then to play three games in a row with the difficult fixtures we had,
05:06
and away in Europe, and then to be so fit in the end of the game.
05:10
I took Curtis off against Leipzig because that was what I was a bit afraid of,
05:15
is he ready to play two in a row?
05:17
But with Darwin, in my opinion, I have no choice
05:19
because he's the only available striker at the moment.
05:23
For him to see how hard he worked was really pleasing.
05:26
Yes, he had to play deep the first half,
05:28
but that had not so much to do with the game plan,
05:30
but with the quality of Arsenal in the first half, because they dominated us.
05:35
Without creating that many chances, though,
05:39
they also needed set-pieces for the second goal and also to threaten us,
05:44
where the first goal was, of course, a great individual quality of Saka.
05:50
Jürgen, what was the message last time?
05:53
Because it was a lot better in the second half,
05:55
but that's also a lot of pressure you face, huh?
05:58
The thing is, if you face Arsenal,
06:00
with a manager that's been working here for four or five years,
06:03
and he has done an incredible job over here,
06:05
because his team can play in so many different set-ups,
06:09
so they always play four for three.
06:11
But the way they position themselves, they can do this in,
06:15
I think he said it once himself, 40 different set-ups.
06:18
I don't know what he exactly said, but in many different set-ups.
06:21
So you prepare a game plan, you expect something,
06:24
but you cannot tell your players 40 different options,
06:29
so you try to prepare them in the best possible way.
06:32
But now they played with a false nine, which they do maybe more often,
06:37
but they didn't come that many times with a full-back inside,
06:40
so they didn't let it go.
06:43
So we could prepare them at half-time a bit better
06:46
for what we saw the first half.
06:48
We took some more risk, but I think the main thing was
06:50
that we just put more energy into it.
06:52
We pressed them more aggressively from the start,
06:55
and then I saw also that we could keep going
06:59
where they had to take a few of their quality players off as well,
07:03
because they couldn't go on,
07:05
and maybe that helped us in the end a bit as well.
07:09
Where last time I said...
07:11
I'll just take it over now.
07:13
Last time I said I completely deserved the yellow card.
07:16
This time I don't think I did it,
07:18
because I said after so many times that they were on the floor,
07:22
which can happen in football, I don't blame them for that,
07:24
but they always fell down after they had ball possession,
07:27
and that took the energy out of the game in my opinion,
07:30
and I said to Ibu,
07:32
this is a fucking joke,
07:34
and the fourth official thought that I said to him,
07:37
you are a fucking joke, so that's definitely not what I said.
07:41
But I got a yellow for that, so now I'm on two,
07:44
so I have to be careful now.
07:52
Is there a sense of belief or growth
07:56
that the team can take and garner
08:00
from the circumstances of that performance,
08:03
going behind twice but then also coming back?
08:06
Yeah, but I think you also take belief
08:09
from winning away at Bulls or winning away at Crystal Palace
08:12
in the way we did,
08:14
so especially if you get a result,
08:16
you always take the positives from this,
08:18
and last week we had to defend really hard
08:20
to take the 2-1 lead, to keep the 2-1 lead,
08:23
and today we had to fight really hard
08:25
to fight ourselves back into the game,
08:27
and that shows for me a great mentality,
08:30
because I think most Arsenal fans at half-time
08:34
would have felt this will probably lead to a win for us,
08:38
and if you then saw the second-half mentality
08:42
and the second-half performance of us,
08:44
that all these things you take with you
08:47
to the upcoming difficult fixture list,
08:51
which is still what we have,
08:53
but I think this is what every Premier League club has.
08:58
How important was it to stay calm in the atmosphere
09:01
and also to wait a little bit for Arsenal to get tired in the second half?
09:06
I don't know if Arsenal got tired.
09:08
That's a question you don't have to ask me.
09:11
The only thing I saw is that we were pushing the second half a lot.
09:15
That can also have to do with the score,
09:17
because last week we had to defend the 2-1 lead
09:20
and Chelsea were more pushing than we did.
09:24
But in the end it was good for me to see that we were able to do so,
09:28
because I said in the beginning of the press conference already
09:31
we had to play in a way like in Europe against Leipzig
09:34
with travelling with one day less to recover.
09:37
Then you're not always sure if you're able to come back into the game,
09:41
especially because they have the fans
09:43
and the fans give you a lot of energy as well.
09:46
That's why we all prefer a home game,
09:49
because the fans can help you in difficult moments
09:51
or can help you to get the energy if you are a bit out of energy.
09:55
We had our away fans, which were loud as well,
09:58
so maybe that combination helped us
10:00
to get the second-half performance as we had.
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