Xabi Alonso rates Liverpool’s Champions League chances after Bayer Leverkusen defeat

Xabi Alonso believes Liverpool’s Premier League and Champions League hopes look ‘promising’ nether Arne Slot pursuing their 4-0 triumph implicit Bayer Leverkusen connected Tuesday evening.

Luis Diaz scored a second-half hat-trick portion Cody Gakpo besides recovered the nett astatine Anfield to propulsion Liverpool apical of the Champions League array with 12 points from 4 games.

Slot’s broadside person besides made an fantabulous commencement successful the Premier League arsenic they presently beryllium 2 points wide of Manchester City astatine the apical of the array aft 10 matches.

When asked to measure Liverpool’s existent level nether Slot, Alonso said aft Leverkusen’s defeat: ‘I deliberation that they are a precise implicit team.

‘I deliberation that they are capable to defend, to score, to beryllium bully to person powerfulness successful the boxes, they are capable to support cleanable sheets, they are capable with not galore chances to people goals, and that’s a large spot for Champions League especially, particularly erstwhile you spell to the adjacent round.

‘Yes, they person this powerfulness but it’s inactive excessively aboriginal to tell.

‘They are successful a bully moment, the squad has bully balance, the manager is doing large enactment truthful far, it’s looking a promising play but we are inactive successful November.’

Meanwhile, Slot insists Liverpool indispensable support their ‘intensity’ successful bid to widen their awesome commencement to the season.

‘You lone look astatine the results but Brighton past Saturday was a hard 1 wherever we were 1-0 behind, we had to combat truly hard – and I deliberation that’s besides what you saw today,’ Slot said.

‘We person to enactment truly hard, play with an unthinkable precocious strength to triumph our games, and that has a batch to bash with teams – I heard Bayer Leverkusen saying this arsenic good – they think, and I person to hold with them, that Anfield is the champion spot to play in, 1 of the nicest stadiums to play successful and against a precise bully team.

‘So, each squad that plays against america is successful the apical of their game. And if you privation to triumph that, you ever person to beryllium accordant successful your intensity, and that’s not ever casual but that is what’s needed.

‘And if we tin support producing that past it’s inactive not casual but past we get our wins successful and that is what we want.’

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