Slot on Liverpool 2-0 Madrid

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Slot on Liverpool 2-0 Madrid  27/11/2024  Anfield, Liverpool, Uk

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00:00Come on, Mo.

00:24He's looking at his data.

00:25He's doing stats.

00:26Stats.

00:27Stats.

00:28He's checking with us.

00:29Lovely to have your family over to experience a night like that, obviously no argument that

00:36the best team won tonight, how do you sum up what your team produced tonight in a game

00:40of such magnitude to maintain your 100 per cent record in the Champions League?

00:46I liked a lot what I saw, of course not everything, I think we controlled the first half with

00:53creating a few chances, but I also thought we were still a bit sloppy, so we lost the

00:59ball in a very easy situation or we forced it a bit too much, and I said try to be even

01:06more patient, let the gaps open up instead of forcing them, and then it helps if the

01:12first seven minutes after half-time I think we had total dominance, they even didn't

01:17come across our half-way line, and if we didn't score a goal like this then we were

01:23flying, if you want to put it like this.

01:26Obviously in a great position in terms of the Champions League at the moment as well,

01:30I just wonder, was there a slight cost tonight as well, we took Natte down at the end of

01:35the game, Conor Bradley obviously came off as well, do you know anything as regards what

01:40injuries they've sustained tonight?

01:42No, not yet, I know where they have pain, but how bad or how good it is is difficult

01:48to judge so close after the game, but this is what happens during the season, we missed

01:55Trent today, we missed Jota today, we missed Alisson today, and we didn't miss Trent because

02:00he was on the bench but he couldn't play from the start, and I think Costas we missed.

02:05So this happens through a season, I'm really hoping both of them are available to play

02:10because we want them all available, but if not, someone else has to step up,

02:14and until now this season everybody that I selected to start have shown up,

02:19and that's also what's going to happen on Sunday, if they can play,

02:25but also if they can't play then other ones will step up.

02:28Obviously we can talk about Liverpool making a statement tonight, beating Real Madrid

02:31after a long run without getting a victory against them, but how do you feel about it,

02:35do you feel that you've made a statement in terms of Europe this season?

02:41I think it's always good to win a game, and especially a big game like this,

02:46because you know you face so many quality players.

02:49For me it would even mean more if we go into the later stages of the tournament,

02:54because this is such a strange and different set-up in the Champions League,

02:59it's difficult to judge how important these wins are if we arrive in the last 16,

03:06or quarter-finals or wherever we can arrive to, and we face them again,

03:10and then we are able to beat them, that would be maybe a bigger statement than this,

03:15but we are definitely happy with the win, let that be clear.

03:18Hi, just to ask about Conor, it's easy to forget he's still very young,

03:23but pocketed Mbappe tonight, got an assist, how pleased were you with him overall?

03:28Had an assist of...?

03:32For Maka's goal, did he?

03:35Yeah, OK. So, we're talking about Conor, don't we?

03:40Conor, yeah.

03:42Did he play the ball square to...? I didn't know.

03:45He was in a strange position, that's why I still don't know.

03:49Oh, OK, that's why he ended up over there.

03:52I think it's nice for him, it's nice for his family, it's nice for us,

03:58but it's also very nice for the academy,

04:01that a player that comes through the ranks of the academy does so well,

04:06and not only him, Kweef was outstanding today, Curtis was outstanding today,

04:10probably all of them were outstanding, but to have three academy players in your team

04:15doing so well is also a big compliment for the academy this club has.

04:23And Conor did very well, but I'm totally not surprised of him doing so well,

04:29because he showed this already last season and showed this in training sessions and games as well.

04:36So, very nice for him.

04:38James?

04:39Arda, you mentioned Kweef, he was exceptional again tonight,

04:42he's been outstanding throughout this period when you've been without Alisson.

04:45With Alisson now close to a return, is that a difficult decision for you,

04:49given how good Kelleher has been?

04:51I think every decision I have to make is a difficult one,

04:54because we have so many quality players, but I think I've been clear about that situation,

04:58but tonight shouldn't be about that, it should be about Kweef being so important for us.

05:04It was a big moment for him, also I think if you see Mbappé behind the ball,

05:14at least I thought probably what everybody thought,

05:17and what everybody also thought when Mo stepped up,

05:20this ball is probably going to go in, and he saved it.

05:23So it was a big moment for him, a special moment for him,

05:26so let that be the headlines and not the other thing I was quite clear about one or two weeks ago.

05:37Hi, Erne, Juan for Flash Square in Spain, congratulations for the result tonight.

05:41English.

05:42Oh, English.

05:43Congratulations for the result tonight.

05:45Today again, in another game after half-time, the team has improved their performance,

05:50it's something that you work a lot in half-time,

05:53how do you teach them on the weakness of the opposite team,

05:56or what's going on, because it has happened many times during this season,

06:01and it seems like a massive strength for the team.

06:06Yeah, we work harder in the first half and the second half than we worked during half-time.

06:11This was a joke, but nobody understands it.

06:15I think the effort we put in in the first half helps us to be as good as we are in the second half.

06:23So if you play a game at this level, it's so difficult to outplay them already in the first half,

06:30but you invest, you invest, you invest, you keep on running,

06:33you keep being aggressive, you keep trying to press them high,

06:36and then in the second half, it's not only with us,

06:39but you see more goals in the second half than in the first half,

06:42and that has all to do with the players also getting tired.

06:45So we also invest in the first half to show up in a better way in the second half.

06:49But the good thing about the second half is that before they go out,

06:53we always prepare them for what to expect from what we've seen from them until now,

06:57but what we saw from them until now was with Vinicius.

07:00Now they lined up without Vinicius, so after the first half we know better what to expect

07:05than we knew before the game.

07:08So maybe sometimes these small adjustments help as well,

07:11but it has mainly to do with the effort we put in the first half already.

07:27Hi, Arne. You guys played the best team in Europe tonight.

07:31How do you manage, and the table says so at the moment,

07:35how do you manage to transform this team into a team

07:38that wins five out of five games in the Champions League?

07:43Oh, I don't think we transformed that much, we adjusted a bit.

07:47Maybe it's your first time at Liverpool,

07:50but I think the ones that are here for a long time are just almost used to playing a final,

07:55or to be up there with all the great teams in Europe.

07:58So this team has always been there,

08:01the last two years maybe have been a bit different than all these years before,

08:06but it was only maybe a few adjustments or playing different teams.

08:13But we are only five games in, in a new format, so we are happy where we are,

08:19but we are not getting carried away by only winning in a group stage game.

08:25This club wants more than only winning group stage games.

08:29Hi, Arne, huge congratulations again.

08:32Could you please comment on Ryan Cravenberry's performance?

08:35I think he almost dictated the game tonight like Tony Kroos.

08:38What are his key strengths and what made you convinced

08:41that he would be a perfect fit as a number 6?

08:45I agree with you, he played a very good game,

08:47which was not that easy because he conceded the yellow card already quite early in the game.

08:53But, yeah, he's so comfortable on the ball, and we like to have possession a lot,

08:59and if you have possession a lot it's always useful to have players

09:02that are so comfortable and dominant on the ball.

09:04And he brings, together with our last line, the ball towards the players

09:09that can hurt every opposition, and that's what makes him special,

09:14together with his running capacity, he just keeps on running.

09:18And he, like all the others, also profits from the team performance,

09:23because I've said it many times, the team performance makes the individual performance,

09:28and not the opposite way around.

09:30Could he become the next Tony Kroos, maybe?

09:33Could I?

09:34Could he become the next Tony Kroos, maybe?

09:36No, because he's Dutch and he's not German.

09:38LAUGHTER

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