Arne Slot makes Chelsea prediction after admitting they ‘dominated’ Liverpool

Arne Slot expects Chelsea to regularly situation for the Premier League rubric ‘in the coming years’ aft admitting they ‘dominated’ his Liverpool broadside for ample spells astatine Anfield.

Liverpool continued their superb commencement to the 2024-25 play with a 2-1 triumph implicit Enzo Maresca’s Chelsea connected Sunday.

Nicolas Jackson gave Chelsea anticipation of a comeback aft cancelling retired Mohamed Salah’s first-half penalty, but Curtis Jones scored the victor conscionable moments later.

Despite proving excessively beardown for Chelsea, Liverpool brag Slot was impressed by the level of the Blues and believes they tin look arsenic regular rubric contenders implicit the adjacent fewer seasons.

Chelsea finished sixth nether Mauricio Pochettino past word and were widely tipped for different turbulent campaign nether the Argentine’s replacement, ex-Leicester City brag Maresca.

But Chelsea had successful information mislaid conscionable erstwhile successful 7 games earlier the decision astatine Anfield, a tally of signifier that has fixed the westbound London nine existent anticipation of finishing successful the top-four and sealing a instrumentality to the Champions League.

Asked astir Chelsea up of Liverpool’s Champions League clash against RB Leipzig connected Wednesday night, Slot said: ‘I don’t deliberation we outplayed Chelsea, we surely didn’t.

‘I deliberation they were much ascendant than america with the ball. In an perfect satellite I would person seen america predominate the implicit crippled similar we did successful truthful galore different games.

‘We are not determination yet but the bully happening astir this squad and the effect was that if you look a squad similar Chelsea, you spot a squad that is warring for each centimetre and for each infinitesimal and that is what we did.

‘I’m hoping successful the future, hopefully successful the adjacent future, that erstwhile we play a crippled similar this we are much ascendant than we were against Chelsea. But that astir apt says a batch astir Chelsea arsenic well.

‘A batch of radical successful England were making amusive of Chelsea earlier successful the play for investing truthful overmuch wealth and bringing successful each these players that weren’t successful the squad but successful my sentiment they person done truly good successful the past 2 of 3 years bringing truthful galore talented players in.

‘They person specified a beardown squad with specified a bully manager that they volition beryllium up determination successful the coming years. That is my opinion, let’s spot if I americium right.’

Speaking aft the hard-fought 2-1 win, Slot said Chelsea had been Liverpool’s toughest hostile truthful acold this season.

The Dutchman said: ‘Many different games were hard but this mightiness person been the hardest possibly due to the fact that of the magnitude of prime players they person and the operation they have.

‘We had to combat truly hard to get this 1 implicit the line. We defended truthful beardown done the full team. There was unthinkable work-rate.

‘The crippled became hard for america due to the fact that determination were a fewer decisions successful my sentiment that didn’t spell for us, the astir important was erstwhile we thought we had the punishment earlier fractional time.

‘To spell 2-0 earlier fractional clip would marque a monolithic quality from 1-0. Then we conceded but we stepped up again and scored the second.

‘The amended the teams you look the much you request it [fight]. In the Premier League determination are truthful galore bully teams truthful if you privation to triumph astatine slightest you request to combat and past hopefully the individuals tin marque the difference.

‘It helps if you play against a Chelsea, it is simply a large crippled and everyone feels it. We felt it and the fans felt it due to the fact that they were determination for america today. We showed up, that was the astir important thing.’

Chelsea, presently sixth successful the Premier League, volition look to instrumentality to winning ways connected Thursday nighttime erstwhile they look Panathinaikos successful the Europa Conference League.

Premier League leaders, Liverpool, meanwhile, look a immense lucifer against rubric rivals Arsenal connected Sunday.

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