Forward of Liverpool’s match in opposition to Bologna, Arne Slot has been talking about how Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona facet ‘helped created his personal philosophy on soccer’.
Slot has solely had eight matches as head coach however we’ve got already seen his affect on how Liverpool play soccer.
There was extra endurance in Liverpool’s build-up play and the defenders want to discover the central midfielders extra typically than beneath Jurgen Klopp.
Talking to UEFA, Slot spoke about his philosophy and defined how Guardiola’s legendary Barcelona facet impacted his view of soccer.
Liverpool’s head coach stated: “In the event you requested my father now, he would say, ‘He does every little thing totally different as a supervisor to how he was as a participant’.
“I all the time make the identical joke. I all the time say I used to be not so quick, some folks referred to as me gradual, and that helped me perhaps a bit with recreation perception.
“I wanted the workforce to get to a sure degree as a result of, individually, I couldn’t go round three gamers. I all the time wanted my teammates the place I may play them my passes.”
As a participant, Slot featured in some good Eredivisie sides that performed in Europe, however extra of his abilities lay in his head than his toes.
In direction of the top of the Dutchman’s taking part in profession, Guardiola began successful as Barcelona supervisor and performed lovely soccer whereas doing so.
Slot continued: “I needed to suppose so much in regards to the recreation; perhaps that’s what helps me now.
“At a sure age, I felt like, ‘OK, if a teammate of mine performs this ball, it usually results in shedding the ball, and if we play a special ball, it results in success’.
“On the finish of my profession, that grew to become increasingly more clear to me.
“I used to be fortunate sufficient that then the Barcelona workforce began taking part in, and I noticed related patterns, not when it comes to how we play it, however extra, ‘OK, this ball which we typically play – and Barcelona always performs – results in success’.
“And that’s helped me create my very own philosophy about soccer.”
Slot making his mark
In addition to studying from Guardiola’s fashion of play, Slot has applied a change at Liverpool that the Man Metropolis boss has additionally made.
One routine Klopp‘s Liverpool adopted was to remain at a resort in Liverpool the evening earlier than residence matches. At first, this was on the Hope Avenue Lodge earlier than latterly shifting to the Titanic Lodge.
Slot has elected to not comply with this routine, although, and Liverpool’s gamers have been sleeping at residence the evening earlier than Anfield fixtures this marketing campaign.
The squad then collect on the morning of the match for his or her workforce assembly earlier than taking the workforce bus to Anfield.
Guardiola as soon as stated: “I’m in mattress at 10 o’clock and I’ve bought no urge to go and check out my gamers. That’s why I’d fairly have them at residence and never cooped up in a resort with nothing to do. We’re simply attempting to make use of frequent sense.”
It’s a routine that was appreciated by Xavi Hernandez and to this point, there have been no points with Liverpool adopting the brand new matchday course of.
