Liverpool boss Arne Slot on how Chelsea have signed a lot of players on long term contracts
Melwood, Liverpool, UK
Melwood, Liverpool, UK
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00:00You've faced a lot of shots in the league this season,
00:03it's clear that you're not giving the teams any opportunities,
00:07particularly with Cole Palmer, Noemi Nardewaayke being in such good form,
00:10how important will it be to keep up that good defensive form against Chelsea?
00:15No, very important.
00:18If you want to achieve something in the season,
00:21you need to be defensively really stable,
00:24and we've been that till now.
00:27Again, we have to take fiction into account as well.
00:32And now we face even better players,
00:34because I agree with you that Chelsea, like Man Utd,
00:37has a lot of great individuals,
00:41which we have to try to manage, to control.
00:45And that's not what one player does, that's what we have to do as a team.
00:49But we must not forget to create our own chances as well,
00:52because if you want to win, you need to score as well.
00:56Unfortunately, and a good thing for us, is that we have players that can score goals.
01:00So, yeah, looking forward to a very interesting game on Sunday.
01:06You made your side slightly smaller in the summer,
01:10whereas Chelsea, who can't have gone the other way,
01:12spent a lot of money on creating a pretty huge squad.
01:15What have you made of their approach?
01:18It's not up to me to say something about an approach,
01:21the only thing I saw and see is that they were already really successful
01:25in the second half of last season, and I think that's always a good...
01:33If a team does really well in the second half of the season, it's a good forecast,
01:37is that the right word to use?
01:38To what you can expect from them the next season.
01:40And they even got some new players in, some very good players in,
01:46and a very good manager they brought in,
01:48so for me it's not a surprise that they just keep continuing the results
01:53that they had in the second half of the season.
01:57It's a young team, that's the first thing that I see.
02:00A lot of them have long-term contracts, but I think they are in a good place at the moment,
02:06if I look at the quality they have, if I look at the way they play.
02:10They got a lot of criticism in recent years, but if you look at where they are now,
02:14I think they are already a big threat for the top three, top four positions,
02:21and they will be this.
02:22In the upcoming years, if they can continue bringing good players in
02:25and keeping this squad in place.