Arne Slot joins unique four-man group with Liverpool’s win at Crystal Palace

Phil HaighPublished Oct 5, 2024, 4:17pm|Updated Oct 5, 2024, 4:18pm

Liverpool’s triumph astatine Crystal Palace connected Saturday saw Arne Slot go conscionable the 4th manager successful Premier League past to triumph their archetypal 4 distant matches.

It has been an fantabulous commencement to beingness successful England for the Dutchman, who was filling immense boots arsenic helium replaced Jurgen Klopp successful the Anfield hotseat.

Diogo Jota scored the lone extremity of the crippled astatine Selhurst Park arsenic the Reds extended their pb astatine the apical of the Premier League, with six wins from their archetypal 7 matches.

It could person been adjacent amended arsenic the lone decision Liverpol person suffered truthful acold nether Slot came successful shocking manner arsenic they were beaten astatine location by Nottingham Forest.

However, their distant signifier has been immaculate and the triumph astatine Palace puts Slot alongside rather an antithetic postulation of different Premier League managers.

The lone different bosses to triumph their archetypal 4 distant matches successful the Premier League are Felipe Scolari astatine Chelsea, John Gregory with Aston Villa and Bobby Gould astatine Coventry, study Opta.

Slot besides becomes the archetypal Liverpool manager ever to triumph arsenic galore arsenic 9 of his archetypal 10 games successful complaint of the club.

Clearly it is simply a fabulous commencement from Slot but Scolari, Gregory and Gould did not spell connected to large things successful their Premier League stints, truthful it is conscionable a commencement for now.

However, the Dutchman is righftully enjoying himself arsenic helium secured apical spot for his broadside arsenic they caput into the planetary break.

‘It decidedly is [very satisfying]. And it’s really besides rather peculiar if you cognize however galore large managers Liverpool had,’ helium said.

‘But I besides said past week I deliberation that I anticipation they don’t lone retrieve maine successful one, two, three, four, 5 years lone for this. We are hoping to bash much peculiar things than this.

‘And it besides says the luck I had that I inherited a precise bully squad and precise bully unit to proceed getting the results that Jurgen [Klopp] had present arsenic well.’

Remarkably, Liverpool person conceded conscionable 2 goals successful their archetypal 7 league matches nether Slot, comfortably the champion grounds successful the apical flight.

‘There’s a batch going into this, there’s a batch of answers to archer you to springiness you a bully answer,’ said the manager. ‘But 1 of the things is, I deliberation you saw contiguous however overmuch we controlled the archetypal 60 minutes.

‘Then we had for 15 to 20 minutes a hard spell. And past successful the past 10 minutes we took power again. We took power by having a precise bully build-up and that helps to besides tyre – I don’t cognize if that’s the mode you accidental it – but tyre the opponents due to the fact that they person to support a lot, they person to tally a batch to marque it hard for us.

‘And past the work-rate our attackers and midfielders enactment successful is besides extraordinary, and that operation with a fewer different things – due to the fact that it’s besides the prime of the centre-backs and the goalkeeper – leads to truthful galore cleanable sheets.’

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