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Arne Slot has mentioned extra video games make his gamers bodily stronger after reserving an additional fixture of their packed schedule by thrashing Tottenham of their EFL Cup semi-final.
Of their thirty seventh recreation in beneath six months, the Premier League leaders received 4-0 at Anfield to seal a 4-1 mixture victory and arrange a last in opposition to Newcastle at Wembley Stadium on March 16.
“Some folks assume you get drained however, so long as you handle it properly, gamers will get stronger by enjoying loads of video games,” Slot mentioned, figuring out two key elements in his near-perfect begin to his tenure in his first season in cost.
“I imagine that the extra video games you play, the bodily stronger you develop into. In the event you play extra usually collectively, you already know higher what is anticipated.
“The primary time I instructed [the players] deliver the ball out from the again in opposition to [different types of] press, they had been possibly like ‘OK, this needs to be completed’. However the extra instances you face them, the extra it turns into pure.”
‘It’s not regular to achieve a last…even for these gamers. They’ve performed many finals nevertheless it nonetheless needs to be particular to go to a last’
Arne Slot says Liverpool will ‘by no means take a last without any consideration’
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Gakpo ‘particular’, says Slot
Fellow Dutchman Cody Gakpo levelled the tie on mixture to make sure he has scored in seven succesive appearances at Anfield.
Slot praised the Netherlands worldwide, who’s the outright prime scorer on this season’s EFL Cup with 5 objectives, and his fellow forwards together with Luis Diaz, Diogo Jota, Darwin Nunez, Federico Chiesa and Mohamed Salah.
“We have now to ensure they get in these positions quite a bit, and due to this fact you need to run quite a bit,” Slot mentioned after Salah arrange Gakpo’s first-time strike. “That’s what they’re all doing
“Within the second half of final season, Cody was particular. Throughout Euro [2024], he was particular for Holland. It doesn’t simply come falling out of the sky. It’s one thing he was doing earlier than.”
‘I’m at all times proud to be main out the boys, however these events are particular…when the time is there, we might be prepared’
Virgil van Dijk is already planning for Wembley
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Liverpool fixtures
Liverpool are six factors away from second-placed Arsenal with a recreation in hand within the Premier League and into the Champions League spherical of 16.
They’ll make one of many longest journeys in English soccer after they go to second-tier Plymouth Argyle within the FA Cup on Sunday (3pm GMT).
The Reds are again in league motion after they make their rescheduled go to to arch-rivals Everton on Wednesday (7.30pm).
