Whereas we shouldn’t anticipate a vastly modified Liverpool facet towards Chelsea, Arne Slot has stated he’ll use it to see how a few of his fringe gamers are creating.
With the Premier League title mathematically secured, the query was posed to Slot of how he and his crew will inspire themselves for Liverpool’s ultimate 4 video games of the season.
When studying that Man Metropolis‘s 19-gap in 2018 was the highest flight’s greatest margin of victory – Liverpool are at the moment 15 forward of Arsenal – Slot informed press together with the Liverpool Echo: “It’s attention-grabbing that you simply inform me this.
“I didn’t know. If I don’t know, I can’t use it. Now I would. However I don’t suppose that may gentle a hearth in lots of gamers.
“What may assist, we’ve got to attend and see, however add one or two, perhaps a bit extra, gamers who haven’t performed as a lot in order that they’ll perhaps create a sure new spirit.
“There’s no new spirit wanted however you realize what I imply. It’s two days earlier than the sport, largely I give you one thing within the final one or two days to attempt to get them going, however I haven’t considered that a lot till now.”
The pinnacle coach was additionally requested if having the title secured may change the crew’s method to the match, to which he replied: “No tactical modifications. You’ll be able to’t change techniques as a result of we have been off two days, educated Wednesday, yesterday we have been off, coaching two days now.
“So if we had three coaching classes and altered techniques that might find yourself in a multitude. If we’d change one thing by way of techniques then pre-season is the second for that. Nevertheless it might be, I don’t know but.
“Initially we’ve got to see how match everyone seems to be. If you happen to ask me now what the line-up is I couldn’t let you know however I don’t know for the time being. We may perhaps see a participant in a sure place, what he does in that place mixed with another person.
“However like I stated it’s not going to be an enormous change, there’s not going to be seven or eight new starters. It’s going to be largely the identical and to see how just a few gamers do in a tough recreation like Chelsea away and the place they’re of their growth.”
This might imply we see the likes of Harvey Elliott, Jarell Quansah and Wataru Endo beginning, however as Slot alluded to, we shouldn’t anticipate full rotation.
Conor Bradley is one other who may return, having missed the win over Tottenham by damage, however he’s unlikely to begin as Slot stated: “He’ll most likely be again within the squad.”
Whereas their rests might not all come on the similar time, we anticipate that gamers equivalent to Ryan Gravenberch and Ibrahima Konate, who’ve performed extra soccer than they’re used to this season, can be rested to some extent within the ultimate weeks of the season.
Slot might have a troublesome job dragging Mo Salah and Virgil van Dijk off the pitch, although!
