Arne Slot channeling fabled ex-Liverpool manager in succeeding Jurgen Klopp

Arne Slot has exceeded each expectations since succeeding Jurgen Klopp and Liverpool are wide astatine the apical of the Premier League and Champions League

When Arne Slot was confirmed arsenic Jurgen Klopp’s successor backmost successful April, no-one expected 7 months aboriginal to spot Liverpool clear astatine the apical of the Premier League and Champions League.

The people for the incoming Slot was to marque the knock-out stages of the Champions League and decorativeness successful the apical 4 to gain different run successful Europe’s apical nine competition. But what helium is achieving is mode beyond anyone’s expectations.

Slot has won 17 of his archetypal 19 games, drafting 1 and losing one. That is adjacent amended than Klopp’s 2019-2020 campaign, erstwhile Liverpool walked the Premier League, and helium won 14 of his archetypal 19 games, drafting 3 and losing two.

That’s not to accidental that Slot is amended than Klopp, acold from it, he’s conscionable different. Klopp’s mentation of dense metallic shot was breathtaking to ticker and often progressive end-to-end games arsenic Liverpool edged retired their opponents successful breathtaking matches.

Slot’s shot is precise overmuch little high-octane and helium believes successful controlling games done possession. If you person the ball, your opponents can’t people - simple. They person yet to beryllium pegged backmost and they person won each 17 games erstwhile they person taken the lead.

Under Slot, Liverpool person registered 10 cleanable sheets successful their 19 games compared to conscionable 5 nether Klopp successful the German’s last 19 matches. Better still, they person the champion extremity quality successful the Premier League, conceding conscionable a miserly 8 goals.

They’re scoring much too, 44 this play compared to 42 successful the last 19 games of past season. Klopp is simply a large character, making fall-outs inevitable.

Take his narration with Mohamed Salah and they publically clashed astatine West Ham and the egotistical Egyptian did not instrumentality kindly to being dropped aft Klopp mislaid patience with his mediocre form. There were nary winners successful this spat arsenic Liverpool’s quadruple hopes disappeared and Salah scored conscionable doubly successful his last 9 games of the play for the Reds.

Compare this with Slot’s handling of Salah and the prima striker chucked a manus grenade into his preparations for Real Madrid erstwhile helium went nationalist with his declaration quality with the club. No uncertainty Klopp would person weighed successful and helium had an sentiment connected everything.

Instead, Slot brushed speech Salah’s claims helium feels “more retired than in”, joking helium is “more successful than out” erstwhile it comes to his squad selection. Crisis contained, the Dutchman is simply a diplomatic arsenic good arsenic an fantabulous coach. Salah is backmost to his precise champion nether Slot and has 12 goals and 10 assists.

Then there’s Slot’s enactment with the players and Klopp intelligibly didn’t complaint Ryan Gravenberch erstwhile helium arrived from Bayern Munich past summer. But aft discarding Wataru Endo and failing to onshore Martin Zubimendi, Slot turned him into the No 6 helium wanted astatine the basal of his midfield.

Or Luis Diaz, who frustrated the beingness retired of Liverpool fans due to the fact that helium lacked an extremity product, and the Colombian prima has 9 goals and 2 assists. Slot pulled disconnected a maestro changeable erstwhile helium played him arsenic a No.9 against Bayer Leverkusen and helium bagged his archetypal hat-trick for the Reds.

Make nary mistake, Slot is passionate and helium has been booked doubly this play for complaining to officials. But helium doesn’t leap up and down similar Klopp oregon fist pump the Kop. Like Bob Paisley was aft the larger-than-life Bill Shankly, he’s his ain antheral and volition bash things his way.

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