Liverpool’s squad revel within the competitors that high quality gamers convey, so says Arne Slot.
The Reds ran riot to beat West Ham 5-1 within the EFL Cup on Wednesday, teeing up a fourth-round assembly with Brighton.
Slot, who has received all however one in every of his seven matches in control of Liverpool, made loads of modifications for the tie, and although his staff fell behind, they responded in emphatic style.
Diogo Jota scored twice to show the match on its head, with Mohamed Salah slamming dwelling a 3rd earlier than West Ham capitulated following Edson Alvarez’s crimson card – Cody Gakpo netting a late double.
And Slot believes his gamers are solely charged up by the competitors throughout the squad.
He instructed Sky Sports activities: “Gamers prefer to play, particularly if you happen to’re successful. They prefer to be a part of a successful group.
“You recognize if you happen to play at Liverpool, you play with high quality gamers. It fires them to get the most effective out of one another.”
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Liverpool completed with 2.55 anticipated targets (xG) to West Ham’s 0.57, getting 21 of their 11 photographs on track and creating six large possibilities.
Reflecting on his facet’s show, Slot stated: “When you’re going through a staff like West Ham, with a variety of high quality, you already know they’ll threaten you as properly, they scored from a set-piece, they threatened us from set-pieces. Each [Premier League] staff has high quality gamers, it’s by no means as simple because the scoreline exhibits.
“In the long run, we obtained numbers in our personal 18-yard field, we did it very well.
“I do really feel we had management. We had a big a part of the possession, we had just a few possibilities earlier than we made it 3-1 via Mo, which was an ideal staff objective, and he was so keen to attain that he performed the ball throughout after which adopted the run and scored an ideal objective, then it was Cody time.”
Gakpo had a team-leading six photographs, and Slot was thrilled together with his compatriot’s efficiency.
“He deserved that, just like the others deserved it as properly,” the Dutchman added.
“It was good to see – Cody has such a unbelievable shot, we now have to get him in these conditions. Other than that, he had an necessary clearance in our field, that’s what I prefer to see – high quality with the ball, work price with out the ball.”
