Liverpool journey to South London on Saturday afternoon to face a struggling Crystal Palace facet and forward of the conflict, Arne Slot has defined why he has left Dominik Szoboszlai out of his beginning 11.
The Dutch coach’s midfield three to this point this season has been very settled with the previous Feyenoord boss choosing the Hungarian alongside Alexis Mac Allister and Ryan Gravenberch.
Szoboszlai has began in all of Liverpool’s opening six Premier League matches however for the Crystal Palace conflict on Saturday, Curtis Jones has taken the 23-year-old’s place.
Many Liverpool followers would have been questioning why Slot selected to do that as the previous RB Leipzig star’s finish product has been known as into query recently.
The Hungary worldwide has produced just one purpose and two assists throughout the eight matches he has featured on this season, which follows on from the three objectives and two assists throughout the 33 Premier League video games he performed in throughout the 2023/24 marketing campaign.
It is a poor return for a participant with the artistic capacity of Szoboszlai however Slot has confirmed that the 23-year-old has not been omitted because of this.
Liverpool boss Arne Slot confirms that Dominik Szoboszlai is being rested
Chatting with TNT Sports activities, Slot said forward of Liverpool’s conflict with Crystal Palace that Szoboszlai is being rested, whereas it additionally gives the Dutch coach to present Jones some minutes forward of a world interval the place the 23-year-old won’t characteristic.
“Curtis each time when he has are available does nicely. It’s a good second for Curtis to start out, additionally as a result of he’s not going to go for worldwide video games so it’s good for him to have a recreation as nicely,” Slot stated.
“He has completed excellent when he has are available and Dom [Szoboszlai] is placing so, a lot effort in his urgent, you marvel if he can proceed doing this each three days and I feel it’s good for us to have greater than solely three midfielders. So let’s see at the moment how Curtis is doing.”
“I can give you so many issues we will enhance”
Regardless of an extremely profitable begin to the season, Arne Slot is aware of there’s rather more to work on for Liverpool ?
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