Liverpool manager Arne Slot has come out to praise his team’s mentality after defeating Newcastle United away from home. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, while Liverpool was very lucky to emerge with maximum points at such a tough stadium, the players displayed champions mentality to fight for the victory.
He added that the hard-fought result meant more to him than a 5 – 0 victory against a less competitive team.
His words, “That is the last thing I think about in this moment, if I’m honest.
Winning away at Newcastle, then you definitely need to have quality, especially in an atmosphere like this – not football quality because that’s not what we showed today, apart from the last goal we scored.
That looked a little bit like what I see on a daily basis on the training ground. But to have the mentality to fight here in such a hostile stadium, that is definitely something you also need if you want to compete in the end.
Winning is something else but at least competing you definitely need to have this mentality — and that’s what we showed.
How do you sum up an evening like this up?
It felt familiar to me. I think I have experienced a game like this once before since I’m here in England — that was Everton away last season, where so many things happened, where it was complete chaos, where the fans were so loud and so there for the home team and our fans tried to help us as much as they could.
It was an unbelievable atmosphere and for us to stay strong in that atmosphere for such a long time is worth more to me than when we play every single time out from the back and we have a four or five-nil win.”
WOW.
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