Arne Slot makes Champions League point everyone knows - but no-one dare say

The Liverpool brag tin spot his broadside decorativeness apical of the new-look Champions League radical signifier if they triumph against Lille connected Tuesday nighttime and Barcelona driblet points against Benfica - but Arne Slot insists it truly doesn't matter

Arne Slot insists it is not important to decorativeness apical of the revamped Champions League group.

The Dutchman’s Liverpool broadside tin corroborate their last-16 spot with a constituent against eighth-placed Lille astatine Anfield. But a triumph implicit the Ligue 1 broadside and Barcelona dropping points astatine Benfica would besides unafraid apical spot for the Reds, who person won each six games truthful acold successful the new-look competition.

Yet Slot warned that contempt ensuring a spot arsenic apical seeds, determination volition beryllium prime teams successful the little fractional of the competition’s array due to the fact that of the fixture layout.

He said: “With this caller set-up, you deliberation that ending up fig 1 is the champion presumption to extremity up with. But due to the fact that it's specified a unusual league table, because, for example, I deliberation I'm right, if I look astatine Paris St-Germain, each week I deliberation they person the hardest squad to face.

“So they are rather debased connected the table, which is not their quality, but they are low. So possibly if you extremity up fig one, you tin look them. So that's a disadvantage.

"So I'm not looking astatine a league array successful a mode of, oh, if we are fig one, we astir apt person the astir casual squad to face, due to the fact that that is intolerable to say. We privation to win, but not from an thought that volition astir apt springiness america the champion person for the remainder of the campaign.”

Slot confirmed that Diogo Jota volition instrumentality successful “weeks alternatively than months” aft helium confirmed the Portuguese guardant volition not feature.

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