Liverpool head coach Arne Slot has mentioned his workforce can’t afford to underestimate anybody regardless of their rising lead on the high of the Premier League desk.
Liverpool are 4 factors away from second-placed Chelsea having performed a recreation much less following Sunday’s commanding 6-3 victory over Tottenham.
Slot’s aspect have misplaced simply one in all their 16 matches within the league this season and can look to proceed their spectacular kind once they host struggling Leicester City at Anfield on Boxing Day.
Ruud van Nistelrooy’s workforce are seventeenth within the desk, with simply three wins from 17 league video games this time period, and go into Thursday’s conflict off the again of a bruising 3-0 defeat to Wolverhampton Wanderers.
However, Slot has insisted Liverpool must be at their finest if they’re to get the higher of Leicester and has promised that his aspect won’t enable complacency to creep in as they proceed to problem for the membership’s twentieth league title.
“I feel the optimistic is that groups which might be positioned within the decrease aspect of the league desk, they largely lose video games however since Ruud is there, additionally they gained a number of in order that exhibits you that he is completed very well, particularly when he got here in,” Slot mentioned advised a pre-match information convention.
“Now he had two powerful leads to a row. These groups, all of them, it is particular to go to Anfield they usually know in the event that they go to Anfield, they need to be at their finest so they are going to by no means underestimate us.
“Hopefully that is the benefit of the quarter-hour we noticed towards Tottenham [when Liverpool conceded two second-half goals], that we perceive we can’t underestimate for one minute within the Premier League.”
The conflict with Leicester won’t be the primary time Slot has come up towards a workforce managed by Van Nistelrooy, with the previous Manchester United ahead having been in command of PSV Eindhoven whereas Slot was head coach of Feyenoord within the Eredivisie.
The Liverpool boss was very complimentary about his countryman when requested to evaluate his managerial profession thus far.
“Cody Gakpo was in his workforce [at PSV] so I’m comfortable that he is in my workforce now once we face Ruud,” he mentioned.
“Ruud is a really good particular person, to start with. I met him a few times and I feel he did very well when he was at PSV as a result of, for the final one-and-a-half years, they have been on high of the league desk however if you happen to take a look at the second half of Ruud’s season, I feel they did not even lose any video games in any respect.
“When he was working there, Cody Gakpo and Noni Madueke have been bought. But he nonetheless confirmed that he may compete for the title. Nice particular person, good supervisor, did nicely at United as nicely. I’m trying ahead to seeing him, particularly if we win.”
