Arne Slot exclusive: Pep Guardiola praise ahead of Man City conflict,…

Arne Slot exclusive: Pep Guardiola praise ahead of Man City conflict,…

Ahead of an enormous conflict with Manchester City on Super Sunday, Liverpool boss Arne Slot has praised his reverse quantity Pep Guardiola, mentioned the type of Virgil van Dijk and the Premier League title race.

Liverpool head to the Etihad having received their last two games against Aston Villa and Real Madrid. Before that, they’d misplaced six of their seven games in all competitions.

Man City themselves have responded nicely to a defeat at Aston Villa two weeks in the past, with each groups aiming to shut the hole on Arsenal at the the top of the desk, live on Sky Sports.

Slot lined this and more as he sat down for an exclusive chat with Sky Sports’ Juliette Ferrington ahead of the Super Sunday showdown…

Slot praises Pep ahead of 1,000th game milestone

Guardiola will handle his 1,000th game in soccer on Sunday, and Slot spoke of his long-time admiration for a way the Man City boss has coached his groups.

He said: “You’re always trying ahead to watching his team play. When you might be analysing every opponent, it is always good whenever you play against his groups because then you may have the privilege to look at 5, six, seven games of his team and also you never get bored.

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Liverpool head coach Arne Slot says his main focus is consistency from his gamers relatively than paying an excessive amount of consideration to the Premier League desk.

“At least I never get bored because his team always have an excellent and clear thought in ball possession, they always attempt to make the people blissful.

“It’s a joy to watch where so many other game are not, in my opinion, a joy to watch anymore.

“It’s turn into more [about] time-wasting and issues I do not like that a lot about the game, however that are superb instruments to make use of to make it tough for other groups in the event that they play against you. It’s a new tactic in soccer, I might say, however this is one thing Pep’s groups hardly do.

“And of course, the Barcelona team was unbelievable. That hoped they might play on a Sunday evening at 8pm, so there was one factor to stay up for at the end of the weekend.

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FREE TO WATCH: Highlights of the Premier League match between Liverpool and Aston Villa.

“Then when he went to his other teams, he also invented new things like the inverted full-back. It’s always something special if you watch a game on one of his teams.

“Quite a bit of managers win, however in the model he has received his trophies, that is why he stands out in comparison with many others.

“I wonder if there are many managers that start their career now that will reach 1,000 [games], especially at the level he’s worked at, because it was probably already very hard to achieve that and there’s a lot of sacrifices coming with that.”

‘Van Dijk ought to take criticism as a praise’

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Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk

Slot also touched on his captain Virgil van Dijk, with the defender coming in for criticism this season. He confronted one of those critics, Wayne Rooney, after Liverpool’s win against Real Madrid on Tuesday.

The pair met on Amazon Prime after Rooney had questioned Van Dijk’s management after he signed a new deal, which the Netherlands worldwide described as ‘lazy’.

When requested about Van Dijk, Slot said: “I’ve picked captains at my former clubs where the age of the players were much younger.

“Maybe not utterly because they had been already the chief of the team, however I’m hoping that may assist them to turn into a frontrunner of the team.

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Jamie O’Hara provides his opinion, as each a participant and a pundit, on Wayne Rooney’s criticism of Virgil van Dijk and Van Dyke’s response

“But with Virgil, it’s so clear that he’s the leader of this team. When you walk through the AXA [training centre], when we start the training session, you can hear him, you can feel he’s our leader.

“He’s already been so important for this club for therefore many years, however I do not suppose I’ve had many captains that had been so vocal, so loud as he’s. He’s been an excellent captain for me and since he turned the captain of this club.

“He sets the bar at ten out of ten and when he has a nine out of 10 [performance], he sometimes gets criticised as well… I think other players will get compliments for a nine out of ten, but he gets criticised for that.

“He had comparable type to last season, however there have been one or two moments this season the place he may have completed better defensively and he received criticised by that straightaway. Maybe he ought to it see as a praise, because that’s the place he set the bar from.”

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‘I’m centered on successful games, not league desk’

Any game between Man City and Liverpool is often billed as a title race conflict, however with Arsenal holding a commanding lead, Slot is concentrated on successful as many games as potential relatively than the league desk.

“If you look at the current league table, it’s clear,” he added. “Arsenal are six points ahead of City, seven points ahead of us, but when there were 10 games to go [last season] and we were leading by eight or ten points, it didn’t feel completely safe to me yet.

“Maybe also because again then we had been in the second half of the season so already struggling a bit of bit. Not everybody observed, however I felt it and it was tougher and tougher for us to win a game of soccer.

“Arsenal have only conceded three goals and lost once against us so at this moment, it’s not about looking at the league table. It’s just trying to win as many games as you can and give yourself the best position you can.

“But positively two superb groups are going to play against each other and what the future will convey, we’ll see.”

Watch Man City vs Liverpool on Super Sunday live on Sky Sports from 4pm; kick-off 4.30pm.

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