Might 16 – Recent from clinching their twentieth English top-flight title, Liverpool’s problem is to stay motivated for the remaining two video games of the season, supervisor Arne Slot stated forward of Monday’s conflict at Brighton & Hove Albion.
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Liverpool sealed the Premier League title final month and have an enormous 15-point lead over second-placed Arsenal on the high of the desk.
Slot’s gamers have loved some additional day without work since wrapping up the league and a number of other had been pictured having fun with a break in Dubai this week.
Slot stated the crew’s mentality was optimistic however motivating the gamers was a problem with nothing using on their remaining two video games.
“It’s difficult for a team who has already won the league to train so many days in a row, we have hardly had any time off in the season because of so many competitions – I want to make that clear,” Slot instructed reporters on Friday.
“The boys deserved a few days off, it’s been a long season for us, to train three days is enough to be physically ready for the game. To be mentally ready is something different.
“On the finish of the season you must discover the precise steadiness to be mentally contemporary… I feel the sincere reply is sure .”
Liverpool clinched the title with a 5-1 win over Tottenham Hotspur last month and have since lost 3-1 at Chelsea and drawn 2-2 at home with Arsenal, after blowing a two-goal lead.
Plans are already underway for next season, but Slot said that players’ performances in the final two games would not impact his decisions on the make-up of the squad for the new campaign.
“The 2 final video games are to not make up our thoughts on the gamers, no, we all know the qualities our gamers have. It will not be honest to evaluate on these two video games. I’ve been working with the gamers for 10 or 11 months,” Slot said.
“I’ve stated so many occasions earlier than we’re very pleased with the gamers we have. If we really feel if we will strengthen the squad we are going to achieve this, however it’s troublesome to strengthen when you might have received the league as a result of it proves now we have so many good gamers.”
Slot was remaining tight-lipped on media reports linking Liverpool to Bayer Leverkusen defender Jeremie Frimpong as a potential replacement for Trent Alexander-Arnold.
“It is going to be a boring reply. We do not discuss gamers we need to usher in public till the second they signal,” he stated. American Categorical Stadium England Brighton & Hove Albion Liverpool