Forward of Liverpool’s match towards 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 have now already seen his affect on how Liverpool play soccer.
There was extra endurance in Liverpool’s build-up play and the defenders need to discover the central midfielders extra usually 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 case you requested my father now, he would say, ‘He does the whole lot completely 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 individuals referred to as me gradual, and that helped me perhaps a bit with recreation perception.
“I wanted the workforce to get to a sure stage as a result of, individually, I couldn’t go round three gamers. I all the time wanted my teammates the place I might 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 tip of the Dutchman’s taking part in profession, Guardiola began successful as Barcelona supervisor and performed stunning soccer whereas doing so.
Slot continued: “I needed to assume 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 distinct ball, it results in success’.
“On the finish of my profession, that turned an increasing number of 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 generally play – and Barcelona continuously 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 type 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 lodge in Liverpool the night time earlier than house matches. At first, this was on the Hope Road Lodge earlier than latterly transferring to the Titanic Lodge.
Slot has elected to not comply with this routine, although, and Liverpool’s gamers have been sleeping at house the night time 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 obtained no urge to go and check out my gamers. That’s why I’d slightly have them at house and never cooped up in a lodge with nothing to do. We’re simply attempting to make use of widespread sense.”
It’s a routine that was appreciated by Xavi Hernandez and up to now, there have been no points with Liverpool adopting the brand new matchday course of.
