Arne Slot names key Liverpool star who he wants to see score more goals

Arne Slot has admitted that Liverpool midfielder Dominik Szoboszlai needs to ‘get his numbers up’ contempt his affirmative commencement to beingness nether the Dutchman.

Szoboszlai has been an ever-present fig for Slot truthful acold this season, playing the afloat 90 minutes of the Reds’ archetypal 4 Premier League games.

Tuesday’s Champions League clash with AC Milan could spot the Hungarian rack up his 50th quality for Liverpool since moving from RB Leipzig successful 2023 and Slot is mostly impressed with what helium has seen truthful far.

‘I deliberation each of the squad players I have, they person an important role,’ the Liverpool brag said erstwhile asked astir Szoboszlai.

‘He’s played each 4 of them present and each players feels much important erstwhile helium plays than erstwhile he’s not playing, but each squad subordinate has his relation and during a play each of them volition play a lot, due to the fact that we play a batch of games.

‘But he’s been important for us, particularly until present successful our enactment erstwhile we don’t person the ball. He’s been outstanding successful his pressing game.’

However, the Dutchman made it wide that the 23-year-old is not the finished nonfiction and indispensable enactment to amended upon his goalscoring record.

Szoboszlai racked up six goals and 8 assists successful the Bundesliga anterior to his determination to Anfield from RB Leipzig but is yet to people truthful acold this play and had conscionable 5 extremity involvements successful his archetypal play astatine the club.

‘I deliberation thing that we person to enactment connected with him is that he’s besides adjacent much progressive successful scoring goals and creating chances for us,’ Slot admitted.

‘Last play helium scored 3 [in the league] if I retrieve correctly and for an attacking midfielder astatine Liverpool his numbers request to spell up.

‘But I’m truly blessed with the mode he’s done until present and I’m 100 percent definite that if helium plays successful a squad with truthful overmuch prime astir him, with the prime helium has helium volition successful the extremity people much goals for america arsenic well.’

Having slumped to a disappointing 1-0 decision to Nottingham Forest astatine the weekend, Slot is determined to spot his broadside bounce backmost successful Italy.

‘It was a wholly antithetic crippled and that’s besides for time I expect a wholly antithetic crippled against Milan with the benignant of players they person and the playing benignant that manager has compared to Nottingham Forest,’ helium said.

‘But we should beryllium disappointed if you suffer a location crippled against Nottingham Forest and you enactment for Liverpool. Four games, 9 points, it’s a bully start, but it’s not a large commencement due to the fact that past we would’ve had 12.’

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