Slot on Liverpool's 1-0 win at Leipzig
23/10/2024
Red Bull Arena, leipzig, Germany
23/10/2024
Red Bull Arena, leipzig, Germany
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00:00On the end of the win, will it be more complicated than you think?
00:04Yeah, I don't think we started the game really well in the first 10, 15 minutes,
00:09but after that I liked a lot what I saw.
00:14Many, many times we played through their press,
00:18opened up their midfield and went for an attack.
00:21That led to the first goal, that led to a few chances, more than a few,
00:26and in the end it's a pity that you still need your two centre-backs
00:31to play such a big game, and your goalkeeper to make two such important saves,
00:35because a game like this should have been ours after 70 minutes,
00:40and it wasn't, and that's why the last 20 were still difficult for us.
00:45Chris, this side?
00:46You've seen Darwin score many, many goals,
00:50are you happy he scored that type of goal?
00:53I'm always happy if we score a goal, and I'm not that much into who scores it,
00:58but it's always good to see all of our players scoring goals,
01:03and I think the lead-up to the goal with Cody and Mo,
01:06they were just as important in the goal as Darwin was.
01:09What I liked from Darwin was that he was also strong, comfortable on the ball,
01:13kept the ball a lot, fighting if he had to defend,
01:17so he made it a really difficult game for the two centre-backs of Leipzig.
01:23And then for him scoring, I think that's always nice,
01:26especially for a striker, to be on the score sheet.
01:32You spoke yesterday about not dominating against Chelsea,
01:36was it more of the same tonight, and is that concerning?
01:39You were not inside the stadium?
01:42You were, and you thought we didn't dominate?
01:45At the start, no, and at the finish.
01:49Oh, yeah, but if you play big teams, and you play a Group 1 team in an away game,
01:53there will always be moments in the game that the other team has some moments as well,
01:58and I think one of them was from a corner kick.
02:01But the way I looked at this game was that we had for a large part of the game total dominance,
02:09like in all the other games we played except for the one against Chelsea.
02:13So I'm not worried at all about this game,
02:17I was a bit more worried, if you want to call it like this, after the Chelsea game.
02:22But this is how I like to see our team play, much more chances than the other team,
02:26much more ball possession, much more time freeing up the midfield from build-up.
02:32So that was good, but I agree with you, maybe you were only there for the first ten in the last 20,
02:39that there were also difficult phases in the game,
02:41but at this level that is what happens in football.
02:44Jürgen, do you want to ask a question?
02:46No.
02:48Well done.
02:50Oh, he wants to have one more, yeah, you get one more.
02:52Maybe a chance to ask a question.
02:54I just wanted to ask, you brought Sauer on, was that with Sunday in mind?
03:00Also, it's a tough fixture list that we have,
03:08so I said before the game about Curtis Jones also
03:12that he hasn't played 90 minutes yet,
03:14he only played two times, 75, 80, 85 minutes.
03:18He's not used to playing two games so fast in a row.
03:20We have some injuries now, so I have to take good care of the players that have played a lot.
03:26Mo is one of them, and Sunday is a big game, he's coming up again.
03:30So I need to use as many players as I can for these tough weeks and these tough months,
03:38because not only these weeks, it's tough months that are coming up,
03:42so that they are all prepared to play.
03:44Chris, one more, then we'll be done.
03:46You've got a few more records against United,
03:48you know that the full-team effort won't be up,
03:50but there's got to be more than 14, 15, 16 away games this season.
03:54Do you think you should be proud?
03:58Yeah, I think I said before, not that we have so many records, but with the other record,
04:04that we should be proud because so many great teams have won this shirt,
04:10so many great managers have been in this club.
04:13So if you can achieve something that hasn't been achieved before,
04:16that's almost impossible at a big club like this.
04:20And to achieve it is always nice, but I said it also about the other records,
04:24records are nice, but there's something else that's more nice than records,
04:29and we both know what I mean, I think.
04:32And that's trophies.
04:34Thank you, everyone.