Arne Sloth, Liverpool manager Detail the philosophy you want your team to play in the new season. It's basically trying to control the game.
The Dutchman was appointed to succeed Jurgen Klopp last summer and has impressed during pre-season.
Before taking to the pitch to face Ipswich Town in their first Premier League match of the weekend, Slot said: “No matter where I work, my team’s style of play is always the same.”
“There are a lot of similarities with Jurgen Klopp, the way they played in the past. Hopefully we will see some similarities in the coming weeks and months.”
“We want the ball. We don’t like other teams having the ball… but the Premier League is a league with a lot of good teams, a lot of them play with the ball. So we had to fight hard to get the ball.”
“And if we can we want to score goals. We have to take everything seriously. If we have the ball, we want to score. We want to do everything seriously.”
“Maybe something is different after we managed to win the ball back. I want to keep going like Jurgen did.”
“But sometimes I want players to try to collect the ball first and not play aggressively, while Jurgen or in previous eras maybe they like the dynamic scene, and they go into the 16-yard box a lot, they have been successful with that for many years.
“But sometimes it depends on the players you have. I think we try to find a balance between being annoying at every moment. And trying to keep the ball for a long time at other times.
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