Arne Slot taking Feyenoord lesson forward as Liverpool prepare to face Real Madrid

Real Madrid won past season's Champions League and volition supply a large trial for Liverpool manager Arne Slot arsenic they question to Anfield looking to revive their European campaign

Arne Slot continues to walk each trial thrown astatine him arsenic Liverpool manager.

Now 1 of football’s eventual examinations; the European elephantine that is Real Madrid. And the Dutchman admits his broadside volition instrumentality connected an outfit who ne'er cognize erstwhile they’re beaten.

The Reds beryllium apical of the Premier League with lone Nottingham Forest capable to instrumentality 3 points from them truthful acold this word connected the home front. While successful Europe, they’ve seen disconnected AC Milan, Bologna, RB Leipzig and Bayer Leverkusen to beryllium beauteous astatine the apical of the caller Champions League array with a 100 per cent record.

But present for the sojourn of the existent holders of Europe’s astir coveted crown arsenic 15-time winners Real and the competition’s astir palmy manager successful Carlo Ancelotti get astatine Anfield. It is simply a broadside which has go renowned for ever uncovering a mode to triumph arsenic they proved successful past season’s occurrence and successful 2022, erstwhile they bushed Liverpool successful the final.

“I cannot speech for each the different teams they look but erstwhile I worked astatine my erstwhile nine I said galore times we should instrumentality the vantage of Madrid, that they ever find a mode to win,” said erstwhile Feyenoord brag Slot. “They tin triumph it successful antithetic ways and if it is hard for them they tin inactive triumph a crippled and that is astir apt 1 of the reasons – isolated from them having truthful overmuch prime – that they won this tourney a lot.

“I tin lone talk for myself but possibly the players consciousness the same, if we are fortunate capable to beryllium a extremity up oregon adjacent much up we inactive are alert of the fact, particularly due to the fact that of what we experienced 2 years ago, that the crippled volition ne'er beryllium done until the referee blows his whistle. In wide it is similar this but I deliberation we each consciousness it against Real Madrid a but much than to immoderate different clubs we face.”

It was successful the 2022-23 run erstwhile Real came to Anfield and trailed by 2 goals earlier leaving Merseyside with a 5-2 vantage successful the last-16 necktie they would triumph 6-2 connected aggregate. Liverpool person not tasted triumph against the Spanish giants since 2009, with 2 last defeats successful the 8 games without a win, meaning Slot tin bash thing Jurgen Klopp ne'er achieved by beating Los Blancos with the Reds.

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But this is simply a antithetic looking Real who are inactive acclimatising to the instauration of Kylian Mbappe and volition beryllium without the injured Vinicius Jr portion having mislaid 2 of their 4 games truthful acold successful Europe this season. Jude Bellingham, who was heavy linked with a determination to Liverpool earlier helium joined Madrid, volition marque his Anfield debut tonight.

He won’t look pal Trent Alexander-Arnold from the commencement astatine slightest with the right-back not acceptable capable to play 90 minutes but whitethorn diagnostic precocious connected arsenic helium recovers from a hamstring injury. The Real prima sidestepped a question astir if helium would similar to spot his England team-mate go his club-mate adjacent play with Alexander-Arnold retired of declaration astatine Liverpool successful the summer.

“He's a Liverpool subordinate and it would beryllium disrespectful to travel to his location with a large crippled and speech astir thing that could beryllium misconstrued truthful it's important to take that unit disconnected him,” said Bellingham.

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