Arne Slot instructed his Liverpool gamers they should be proud after attaining the “virtually unattainable” feat of setting new membership data with Wednesday’s 1-0 Champions League win away to RB Leipzig.
Darwin Nunez’s Twenty seventh-minute objective was sufficient to win in Saxony, a victory that makes this Liverpool facet the primary to win their first six away video games of a season, and the primary to win 11 of their opening 12 matches in all.
Just some months into Slot’s reign, Liverpool sit high of the Premier League with three wins from three within the Champions League.
“I believe I stated earlier than that we must be proud as a result of so many nice groups have worn this shirt, so many nice gamers have been at this membership,” Slot stated.
“To attain one thing that was not achieved earlier than is sort of unattainable at an enormous membership like this.
“To attain it’s at all times good however as I stated about different data, data are good however different issues are nicer than data and you already know what I imply by that – trophies.”
After Slot stated his facet had been second finest for big components of Sunday’s 2-1 win over Chelsea, Liverpool didn’t have issues all their very own means in Leipzig, and the hosts might need been 2-0 up contained in the opening 25 minutes as huge probabilities fell for Benjamin Sesko.
Lois Openda discovered the web within the twenty sixth minute however was offside in doing so, and a minute later, Nunez had put Liverpool in entrance.
Even so, they wanted one other offside flag to disclaim Openda once more late on after Caoimhin Kelleher had made huge saves from Sesko and Xavi Simons.
“In the event you play staff, an enormous staff away, there are at all times moments within the sport and they’ll have some moments as nicely,” Slot stated.
“The way in which I checked out this sport, for me we had a big a part of the sport complete dominance as we did in all of the video games apart from Chelsea. I’m not anxious in any respect about this sport.
“I used to be a bit extra anxious after the Chelsea sport however that is what I prefer to see, the staff play with far more possession, releasing up the midfield.”
Slot added: “Many, many occasions we performed by their press and opened up their midfield and went for an assault that led to the primary objective and there have been extra probabilities, various.
“Ultimately it’s a pity that you simply nonetheless want your two centre-backs to play such an enormous sport and your goalkeeper to make two huge saves. A sport like this could have been ours after 60 or 70 minutes and that’s why the final 20 minutes had been so tough for us.”
With the sport nonetheless within the stability, Slot took off Mohamed Salah simply after the hour mark and changed him with Luis Diaz, a choice the Dutchman admitted was made with an eye fixed on Sunday’s Premier League journey to Arsenal.
“We have now some accidents, we have now to take excellent care of the gamers,” Slot stated. “The gamers have performed loads and Mo is certainly one of them. Sunday is an enormous sport arising. I would like to make use of as many gamers as I can for these powerful months.”
