4th Is A Fair Reflection Of Liverpool’s Season Thus Far – Slot

Liverpool manager Arne Slot has said that the club’s season has been a constant battle so far. He recently revealed that their current fourth-placed position is a fair reflection of their campaign to date.

According to him, making the Reds more difficult to beat has come at the expense of the team’s attacking threat in recent matches, so it is about finding the right balance henceforth.

Slot added that being several points behind Arsenal and Manchester City is only fair after Liverpool’s many inconsistencies on the pitch this season.

His words, “Realistically I think there are two teams [Arsenal and Manchester City], with Villa being really, really close to them because Arsenal against Villa they created a bit of a gap to Villa but realistically those two teams are quite far away from us and we should not look at those two at this moment in time.

We have had our struggles throughout. We started really well in terms of results, games were really close, then we had a phase of the season where games were still really close but we were constantly unlucky, now we have been seven or eight games in a row unbeaten but if you say this you feel like, ‘they are flying through the league,’ but that is not what we are doing.

Every single game we play it’s hard work, it’s two teams quite close to each other. We are mainly the team that is probably better than the other team but not enough.

We are constantly within this 20 percent difference and if you are inside this 20 percent difference then going to the floor or not means a lot for the results and I will keep pushing and the players will keep pushing to get to a situation where we are more than that 20 percent and we can make the difference bigger and hopefully we can find a moment where we can fly through the season but for the first 19 games it has been a constant battle, close to each other, sometimes a bit lucky, sometimes a bit unlucky season.

I think it is clear and obvious that we hardly concede chances anymore. At this moment in time, against the opponents we had in the last seven or eight games but for me it is also clear and obvious that we find it quite hard to generate enough chances for all the ball possession we have and that is not new for us this season.

What the players try to do is they keep on trying, they bring the ball towards the wingers, they make inside runs, they play and move, they do all the things but sometimes you need a kind of magic to unlock a game or a set-piece and if that then happens then all of a sudden everything looks much nicer but that is not our season until now.

Yeah, yeah. Although the margins are small.

So that could have influenced us having three, four, five, six more points, maybe, but yeah like today and like so many other games, if we would have done a bit better in set-pieces and we would have had five six seven points more as well so that could have changed it a little but from open play, from where we are, when I look at Arsenal, I look at City and I look at us, it’s fair that we are not above them.

That we are so many points behind them, there are reasons for that, which I just explained but it wouldn’t be fair if we were above them, for the way we have played.”

WOW.

Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club based in Liverpool, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Founded in 1892, the club joined the Football League the following year and has played its home games at Anfield since its formation.

Domestically, the club has won 19 league titles, eight FA Cups, a record nine League Cups and 16 FA Community Shields. In international competitions, the club has won six European Cups, three UEFA Cups, four UEFA Super Cups—all English records—and one FIFA Club World Cup.

The club established itself as a major force in domestic and European football in the 1970s and 1980s, when Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan and Kenny Dalglish, led the club to a combined 11 League titles and four European Cups. Liverpool won two further European Cups in 2005 and 2019 under the management of Rafael Benítez and Jürgen Klopp, respectively; the latter led Liverpool to a 19th league title in 2020, the club’s first during the Premier League era.

Anfield was built in 1884 on land adjacent to Stanley Park. Situated 2 miles (3 km) from Liverpool city centre, it was originally used by Everton before the club moved to Goodison Park after a dispute over rent with Anfield owner John Houlding. Left with an empty ground, Houlding founded Liverpool in 1892 and the club has played at Anfield ever since. The capacity of the stadium at the time was 20,000, although only 100 spectators attended Liverpool’s first match at Anfield.