Liverpool head coach Arne Slot believes there will probably be similarities between how his staff performs to Jurgen Klopp’s sides of the current previous, however admitted his ultimate XI will probably be extra affected person in possession.
Klopp’s nine-year reign as Reds supervisor got here to an finish in Might, ending one of the memorable chapters within the membership’s historical past.
His alternative, Slot, will take cost of his first aggressive Liverpool match this weekend after they journey to newly promoted Ipswich City within the Premier League.
Forward of that encounter, Slot sat down with Canal+ and defined how his type differs to Klopp’s.
“Model of play has been with my groups the place I labored, I believe, all the time the identical,” he mentioned. “There are numerous similarities with Jurgen Klopp, with the best way they performed previously, and I am hoping we are going to see these similarities within the upcoming weeks and months.
“We wish to have the ball, we do not like the opposite staff to have the ball… however the Premier League is a league the place many good golf equipment are and plenty of golf equipment need to have the ball, so we’ve to struggle actually laborious for us to have the ball.
“And if we’ve it, we need to rating, we need to be intense in all the pieces we do. If we’ve the ball, we need to rating – that is fairly easy in fact! We need to be intense in all the pieces we do.
“Possibly the one slight distinction there’s that after we win the ball, I wish to go ahead simply as Jurgen favored it, however I typically prefer it when gamers attempt to preserve the ball and never play the troublesome ball, the place Jurgen or the previous regime possibly favored the chaotic scenes in and across the 16 lots as nicely. They had been actually, actually, actually profitable with that for thus a few years.
“However it typically additionally relies upon a bit on the gamers you might have. I believe we’re looking for the stability between attempting to create chaos at sure moments and attempting to maintain possession of the ball a bit longer in different moments.”
