The Liverpool beats the Real Betis in a friendly (1-0) and coach Arne Slot showed some experiments, also due to the absences of some players in this pre-season, busy with various national teams. See Darwin Nunez, who with Uruguay reached the final of the Copa America and has yet to join the group as he is on holiday. Salah, Szoboszlai and Carvalho in fact played in the 4-2-3-1 to support the young and versatile Harvey Elliott.
At the end of the match, however, the coach explained that this choice was due more to necessity than to ideas he is developing in view of the new season. Reds: “I think during the season you will see us play with a real striker, but at the moment we don’t have anyone with Darwin Nunez unavailable. We played with two number 10s and put them in the position they will play in during the season. It was more out of necessity than anything else. As for the rest of the style of play, we tried to build from the bottom, that’s our style to control the game, not to allow constant counterattacks.”
“I hope” – concludes Slot – “that this will be our style during the season and there are also many things that we can improve, but it’s normal after two weeks”.