Arne Slot Manager
The Reds recently struggled in away games, taking only three points from a possible 15 against last year’s top six teams. Their latest match at the Emirates resulted in a 3-1 defeat to Arsenal back in February. This upcoming victory could potentially extend Slot’s team’s lead to seven points over Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal in the title race, particularly as Manchester City plays against a struggling Southampton team at home on Saturday afternoon.
Arne Slot said, “The home game was a 1-1 draw, the away game Arsenal won. So if we could change the away result, which we can’t, to a win for Liverpool that would have been one point difference between the two teams. But it’s too simple to say ‘if you win those games the league table would have been different’. So to win it, it is so simple ‘if we win this one and this one and this one, we would have won the league’ but there is a reason why you didn’t win it because probably the other team is stronger than you or it is so hard to beat the top five or six teams in an away game. And the teams who are able to do this like City and Arsenal last season were, they have a very good chance to win the league so if you want to win the league you need many, many points, then once in a while you have to win an away game, I think. It is such a long time ago but I can remember the first year when Pep Guardiola was at City that they hardly won any away game and the second year I remember it was the first one, Chelsea away, Kevin De Bruyne scored a solo goal and they won for the first time a big away game. So if you want to win this league, no matter who it is, you need to win a few of the five, six, seven very difficult away legs, we talk about Newcastle, we talk about Chelsea, about Aston Villa, about Tottenham, about City, about United and about Arsenal.”
