Arne Alot fires Arsenal warning to Liverpool players after Southampton win

Arne Alot has reminded his Liverpool players astir Arsenal’s Premier League rubric illness pursuing their 3-2 triumph implicit Southampton connected Sunday.

Following Manchester City’s 4-0 decision astatine location to Tottenham connected Saturday evening, Liverpool person taken their accidental to determination 8 points wide astatine the apical of the Premier League by winning astatine St Mary’s.

Dominik Szoboszlai enactment Liverpool successful beforehand successful the archetypal fractional but Southampton overturned the shortage soon aft fractional clip pursuing goals from Adam Armstrong and Mateus Fernandes.

Mohamed Salah past equalised for Liverpool successful the 65th infinitesimal earlier the Egypt planetary scored from the punishment spot with 7 minutes remaining to unafraid the triumph for Slot’s side.

But speaking aft the game, Slot was keen to constituent retired that Arsenal fto an eight-point pb gaffe successful March 2023 earlier Pep Guardiola’s City broadside went connected to triumph the Premier League title.

When asked astir however affirmative an eight-point pb is aft conscionable 12 Premier League games this season, Slot replied: ‘No, decidedly but we besides cognize what we person to enactment into it to get these leads that we person astatine the moment, and to get these wins.

‘And I lone person to amusement erstwhile the players feel, I deliberation determination were possibly 1 oregon 2 games for america that were wins by a large margin, the remainder were each by a tiny margins. So we cognize however hard it is to triumph a game, and these players person been longer successful the Premier League than I’ve been.

‘I deliberation it was past season, adjacent aboriginal connected successful the play that Arsenal led by 8 points and City came back. So you cognize if you look Arsenal, City, Chelsea and each these different teams, Tottenham were large yesterday arsenic well, they are each capable to triumph truthful galore games successful a row.

‘It’s bully to person this presumption but we are decidedly not getting carried away.’

Liverpool present look a pugnacious trial astatine location to Real Madrid successful the Champions League connected Wednesday night.

‘That is the difference, this league asks a batch from each subordinate each play and past if you past play successful Europe, that’s not ever easy,’ Slot said.

‘Only a fewer teams successful England person shown they tin bash this. Liverpool person shown it successful the past for galore seasons. The past 2 years that has been much difficult.

‘That’s besides wherefore teams successful England person specified a large squad due to the fact that apical clubs person rather a batch of money. We tin besides marque a bigger squad than possibly immoderate different teams successful different countries. That’s besides what we need, you saw it contiguous again, the 2 oregon 3 players that came successful truly had an interaction connected the crippled and that is besides what we request successful this league.’

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