Anfield Is No Longer Scary For Liverpool Rivals – Arne Slot

Liverpool manager Arne Slot said his team have lost their aura of invincibility this season. He recently had his say following a 1-1 draw with newly-promoted Sunderland at Anfield on Wednesday.

According to him, he decided to bring Mohamed Salah on to replace Cody Gakpo at halftime because the Netherlands international was not doing enough to dominate his one-on-one situations.

Slot added that his players are currently struggling to create moments of magic, and the reality is the reason why his team isn’t scoring many goals.

His words, “Not Anfield, for sure, but it is clear that teams who play us now think they can get a result. Not only think, because that has been shown this season. Even in the games we won we fueled the confidence for other teams that there is something possible because the wins we had at the beginning of the season weren’t easy ones as well.

In my opinion, Cody struggled to dominate the one vs. ones and if you want to have any chance of scoring when they were pressing high you need a moment of magic or a set piece and Cody struggled to find that moment.

In the first half we played Dominik Szoboszlai on the right and I changed to Mo on the right side and Wirtz on the left. We hardly conceded [a chance], but it was difficult to create that moment of magic.”

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.