And as in the most beautiful fairy tales, the Liverpool overwhelms the English champions and escapes to the top. After having raged with the 2-0 victory over Manchester City lost, i Reds they enjoy first place alone at +9 on Arsenal and Chelsea, new direct rivals for the title.
Arne Slotcoach of the Premier League leaders, commented on the result obtained today at Sky Sports UK: “An almost perfect match? Yes, and if you look at the work pace, I think it was perfect. The amount of chances we wasted made the game very close, but perhaps this is a positive aspect for games like this. It should be like this.”
Specifying later: “But it would have been better to score the second goal earlier. We always press high, but they are very good at building, so you have to work very hard. Our players had energy. Besides our players, the crowd was also fantastic today. They always put you in trouble because of the way they position themselves. It’s not just the formation, nine times out of ten it’s the quality of their players. We are a difficult team to beat. , but we also have to work hard. We have injuries, we had to taking away Trent (Alexander-Arnold, ed.) It would have been a risk. These are the challenges we face at the moment, but every team has to face these challenges over the course of the season.”
With a thorough explanation of how he found such convincing success against the reigning champions: “If you want to win against City, you have to be perfect in every part of the game. High pressing, low pressing, construction. They create a lot of problems for you. We got closer to perfection. We weren’t perfect, but we got close to perfect. Only in this way can you beat a quality team like City.”
About the incredible start to the season and being first in the standings: “I don’t think anyone, including myself, would have predicted this. I knew that Jurgen (Klopp, ed.) had left the team in a great place. However, winning this much with all the tough teams we have faced is not something you can predict at the start of the season. But, like I said, I saw Arsenal yesterday and Chelsea today and I saw City. They will come back because these teams have a lot of quality. They could follow the same path we did, so we need to stay clear and focused,” he comments.