Arne Slot has explained how his Liverpool are looking to step away from the "chaos" created under Jurgen Klopp as he further outlined his tactical approach
Slot replaced Klopp earlier this summer and is preparing for his first competitive game as head coach
The Dutchman was employed due to similarities between the way his Feyenoord team played and Klopp's side, with Liverpool keen to ensure no major squad overhaul was necessary this summer.
while the Reds are set to go into the new campaign without any new signings
Slot has highlighted how he wants the squad he inherited to tweak their collective game
Slot
“Style of play has been with my teams where I worked, I think, always the same,” he said. “There are a lot of similarities with Jurgen Klopp, with the way they played in the past, and I’m hoping we will see these similarities in the upcoming weeks and months.”
“We like to have the ball, we don’t like the other team to have the ball... but the Premier League is a league where many good clubs are and many clubs want to have the ball, so we have to fight really hard for us to have the ball.
“And if we have it, we want to score, we want to be intense in everything we do. If we have the ball, we want to score – that’s quite simple of course! We want to be intense in everything we do."
Slot added:
“Maybe the only slight difference there is, is that after we win the ball, I like to go forward just as Jurgen liked it, but I sometimes like it when players try to keep the ball and not play the difficult ball, where Jurgen or the former regime maybe liked the chaotic scenes in and around the 16 a lot as well. They were really, really, really successful with that for so many years.
“But it sometimes also depends a bit on the players you have. I think we’re trying to find the balance between trying to create chaos at certain moments and trying to keep possession of the ball a bit longer in other moments.”
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