Slot Talk: “Go to Arsenal and Make It a Proper Fight”

Liverpool are the defending Premier League champions, and so they’re heading to London to tackle perpetual Premier League runners up Arsenal. With how the 2025-26 season has gone up to now, although, it feels a world away from something that sort of an announcement might sound to suggest.

This season, it’s Arsenal operating away on the high of the desk whereas Liverpool stumble alongside within the high 4 battle. Proper now, the Reds are a full 14 factors again of the Gunners. No matter hopes of a title defence might need existed for Liverpool are gone. Nonetheless, Arne Slot says his facet are up for a battle.

“We’ve been aggressive with everybody however haven’t had consistency in opposition to the golf equipment we ‘normally’ beat,” the Liverpool supervisor insisted forward of kickoff. “That’s led to the very fact we’re 14 factors behind Arsenal. So it’s one other sort of problem for us, to go to Arsenal and make it a correct battle.

“They play at house so I feel their followers will actually be up for it. It’s most likely top-of-the-line occasions to be an Arsenal fan. They’re high of the league, they’ve an unimaginable group, unimaginable supervisor. I assume they’re trying ahead to the sport tomorrow, however we’re trying ahead to it as effectively.”

Regardless of their struggles, over the previous month Liverpool have maybe discovered one thing resembling solidity, and so they have managed to now go 9 video games with out defeat. To do this, although, they’ve nearly fully sacrificed attacking fluidity, making for soccer that has at occasions been exhausting to observe.

The purpose now must be to discover a approach to construct on that, to point out they’ll play each with extra attacking aptitude and with extra depth. Although maybe in opposition to this 12 months’s presumptive champions, one other sport the place solidity and easily not dropping are the priorities could be comprehensible.

“We should always undoubtedly have the ability to discover consistency and likewise play video games which might be extra a pleasure to observe,” Slot added. “We have to maintain working very exhausting to seek out openings and to seek out the suitable concepts to harm groups. However in opposition to Fulham I don’t suppose many individuals thought it was a pleasure to observe.”