Beijing time on October 5, 19:30, Liverpool will be in the seventh round of the English Premier League away to challenge Crystal Palace. On the eve of the match, Liverpool manager Slaughter attended a press conference and answered reporters' questions on the team's form, players' performance, and the schedule.
Talking about playing Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace have shown what difficult opponents they are against the likes of Manchester United and Chelsea," said Slotter. It's our first game and it's a difficult one for us as well because we play late in the Champions League on Wednesday night and the opponents have a full week to prepare with a noon kick-off on Saturday. But that's part of working at a top club and we have to be ready for these games."
Talking about player performance
Commenting on Salah's excellent performance, Slaughter said, "Salah has a great ability to score special goals. But it's also about teamwork, such as Trent's forward set piece creating space for Salah." Meanwhile, Slotter also recognized Hrafenbech's progress and believes he has the ability to continue to improve at a club like Liverpool.
Talking about the club's new contract
In response to the update on the club's new contract, Slaughter responded with humor, "I wish you hadn't mentioned the word 'contract' in your last question because it would have been a boring answer. I can understand if you ask me every two weeks, but if you ask again in two or three days, then you get the same answer."
Talking about scheduling
Slaughter said, "The difference between this international day and the last one is that we have a late game on Sunday, which gives us an extra day's rest, which always helps." Meanwhile, he also spoke about the away game which kicks off at 12:30 p.m., arguing that it should not be an excuse for the team's poor performance.
Talking about players' playing time
Slaughter said, "My focus at the moment is on tomorrow's game and then we'll see if we need to control the playing time of our players. We have 10 players playing all the minutes and our next opponent has five. But I don't think it will affect our game performance."
Talking about forward players
On Darwin Nunez's adaptation issues, Slaughter opined, "We're trying to find a different positional arrangement for Darwin than we did for Diogo. Both have problems adapting and we need to fully utilize the best of each player." At the same time, he also said that he needs to focus on the goal-scoring positions of the forward players and put them more in positions where they can score goals.
Talking about team mentality
We are Liverpool and the players are used to being at the top of the league," Slotter said. It would be strange if the Liverpool players suddenly became complacent. So I'm not worried that the players will get carried away with being at the top of the table."
