Dominik Szoboszlai is working laborious to enhance his goalscoring return however insisted it was extra necessary that he’s doing a “soiled job” for Arne Slot’s Liverpool facet.
Final season, Szoboszlai chipped in with eight targets in 55 appearances for the Reds however to this point this season his solely strike got here within the 3-1 Champions League win over AC Milan in September, and that has led to complaints from sections of the Liverpool help and, generally, his personal supervisor.
The 23-year-old stated he’s placing within the hours on the coaching floor to enhance however he’s extra within the staff’s outcomes than his personal numbers.
When requested if he was blissful together with his type forward of Wednesday’s Champions League match towards RB Leipzig, Szoboszlai stated he was not.
“It may be all the time higher so, no,” the 23-year-old stated. “I can play even higher. I can rating extra targets and do extra assists. However I’m doing a grimy job for the staff and that’s most necessary for me. We’re high of league and if I don’t rating targets that’s a very powerful for me.
“If we’re high of the league and I don’t rating a purpose I’ll take it…I’m making an attempt to work on it to be able to attain extra targets. It is going to take time however I’ll get there.”
Wednesday night time will see Liverpool and Szoboszlai come up towards his former membership RB Leipzig within the Champions League.
Szoboszlai spent two seasons with Leipzig after becoming a member of from sister membership RB Salzburg in 2021, leaving for Liverpool in a deal price a reported £60 million in the summertime of 2023.
“It has been a fast one and a half years (since leaving),” the Hungary worldwide stated. “I got here right here as a younger expertise and left as a grown man and now I’m enjoying within the Premier League.
“I discovered lots of stuff that I didn’t know earlier than. You possibly can all the time study one thing from completely different coaches and completely different gamers and I can solely say constructive issues (in regards to the membership)…
“I’m blissful to be again and to see previous buddies, and in addition the followers. I couldn’t actually say a goodbye to them as a result of my final switch was just a little bit fast.”
Liverpool travelled to Germany on the again of Sunday’s 2-1 win over Chelsea, a outcome that lifted them again to the highest of the Premier League.
In addition they have a most six factors from their opening two Champions League video games however Slot nonetheless sees a lot he needs to vary about his facet.
“You possibly can’t ask for rather more on the subject of the outcomes, however on the subject of what we wish there may be all the time room for enchancment,” he stated.
“I don’t assume we outplayed Chelsea, we definitely didn’t, I feel they had been extra dominant with the ball. In a great world you’d have seen us dominate the sport like we did so many different video games. We aren’t there but.
“The benefit of the staff and our result’s after we face a staff like Chelsea or (Manchester) United you see a staff preventing for each centimetre, each metre, preventing for each second and that may be decisive within the sport and that’s what we confirmed.
“I’m hoping that within the close to future we’ll play a troublesome sport just like the Milan sport or the United sport and be extra dominant than we had been towards Chelsea.”
Diogo Jota didn’t journey to Germany after struggling an damage towards Chelsea, with Slot saying he doesn’t understand how lengthy the ahead will probably be out with bruising.
Conor Bradley and Federico Chiesa have likewise not travelled, together with longer-term absentees Alisson Becker and Harvey Elliot.
