Arne Slot makes telling Pep Guardiola prediction ahead of crunch Man City test

Liverpool manager Arne Slot volition not beryllium taking thing for granted erstwhile they look Manchester City this play contempt the Premier League champions' caller mediocre form

Arne Slot admits helium volition person needed to walk much clip analysing Manchester City this week than astir different sides.

That’s because, according to the Liverpool caput coach, you tin ne'er cognize what the manager helium believes is the champion successful the world is going to do.

Slot is anticipating Pep Guardiola doing thing precise antithetic time erstwhile their sides conscionable astatine Anfield successful a immense clash truthful aboriginal successful the Premier League rubric race. City are without a triumph successful six successful each competitions and 3 defeats connected the trot successful the league means they spell into the crippled 8 points disconnected Liverpool.

Guardiola needs to find a hole for the lack of Rodri. Slot volition effort to antagonistic immoderate it is arsenic helium prepares to spell toe-to-toe for the archetypal clip with the City boss.

“He was the 1 who invented – possibly not invented, possibly it was done 100 years agone – oregon came up with the thought of inverted afloat backs and past thought, “Right, present I’m going to propulsion my centre backmost (Stones) into midfield”,” said Slot.

“You ever spot caller things oregon inventions with him. They person a precise bully and wide playing style. Always an absorbing crippled program arsenic well. It is ever astir the players. It is not astir maine against him. It is ever the players who marque the difference.

“The lone happening is if you play against him, and it’s the aforesaid with immoderate different managers successful this league arsenic well, you think, ‘Ok, helium could travel up with this, but helium mightiness travel up with this, oregon this…’ due to the fact that helium has truthful galore antithetic game-plans.

“The playing benignant is astir ever the same, they privation to person shot possession, but they tin set definite positions. Analysing them takes adjacent much clip than immoderate different teams who ever person the aforesaid structure. But that’s what I thought astir Real Madrid and past they came up with Brahim Diaz playing arsenic a mendacious 9 which they person ne'er done before.”

Slot, who is 8 years younger than Guardiola, was inactive a subordinate astatine Sparta Rotterdam erstwhile Guardiola was starting to marque his sanction arsenic a manager with Barcelona and Lionel Messi.

“It had thing to bash with maine wanting to go a manager but erstwhile I played I ever felt that definite balls my team-mates gave were successful, and definite balls were unsuccessful,” said Slot.

“Then, erstwhile I started to ticker Barcelona, I saw that the palmy balls were lone the ones that Barcelona played, truthful that gave maine the reassurance that what I thought was the close shot proved to beryllium the close ball. It decidedly helped maine to make my ain thought astir shot and my ain playing style.”

Slot’s investigation this week volition person included Tuesday night’s melodramatic gully for his erstwhile nine Feyenoord - who helium led to the Eredivisie rubric successful 2023 - against City erstwhile they came from 3-0 down successful the past 15 minutes.

The Dutch manager is not 1 for showing sentimentality but adjacent helium couldn’t disregard his sanction ringing astir the Etihad Stadium arsenic Feyenoord fans honoured him portion goading City. “What made this crippled peculiar for maine was much sitting astatine home, putting the measurement up and proceeding the Feyenoord fans singing my name,” helium said.

“That’s the biggest compliment you tin get if you permission a club, that the fans inactive similar you. Of people successful Holland and for maine arsenic a Feyenoord fan, I could hardly judge what I saw.”

Guardiola volition person heard those chants of Slot’s name. Whether helium has to perceive to them time again volition beryllium connected if the Dutchman tin fig retired conscionable what the City brag is planning.

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