Slot seeks to reward positive moments at Liverpool amid crisis

Arne Slot looks to revitalize Liverpool amid crisis

Liverpool’s coach, Arne Slot, faces the challenge of restoring the team’s confidence, as well as improving their performance on the field. The Dutch coach has been trying to highlight the few positive aspects to motivate his players. With nine losses in twelve matches, including six in seven in the league, Sunday’s match against West Ham takes on crucial importance for the defending champion team, which seeks to reverse its losing streak. While negativity grows around the club with each adverse result, Slot tries to focus on the moments when the team shows a good performance.

It would be good if we rewarded ourselves in the moments when we play well, because people focus, and rightly so, on the parts where we don’t play well.

Arne Slot

Slot acknowledges that morale is affected every time his team concedes a goal, something that has happened ten times in the last three matches. However, he believes that the players do not take to the field with a negative mentality.

Slot faces speculation about whether he has lost the support of the dressing room, following the club’s worst run in over 70 years, but denies that the team has stopped listening. After the 3-1 it’s very difficult to transmit a message from the sidelines, but before the match and during halftime, I think the message reaches them. If I see how we create our opportunities, it’s a lot of what we train and what we talk about in the meetings, but unfortunately it doesn’t translate into goals and that’s difficult for them, for me and for everyone. But the message I convey is very clear, in the way we generate our opportunities.