Arne Slot envisages “many challenges to come back” in Liverpool’s Premier League title race, regardless of his aspect transferring 5 factors clear on the prime of the desk with victory on Saturday.
The Reds capitalised on Manchester Metropolis’s slip at Brighton by taking all three factors in a 2-0 win over Aston Villa to ascertain respiration area on the summit.
Darwin Nunez gave the hosts the lead at Anfield as he capitalised after a fast counter, earlier than Mohamed Salah did the identical six minutes from time to safe all three factors.
Whereas Slot was happy by the result, he’s conscious the cushion on the prime doesn’t assure a clean run of their title problem.
“It wasn’t simple, like most of our video games have been now,” he advised TNT Sport. “Aston Villa had been perhaps not as aggressive as we thought they’d be.
“We had been affected person. One factor they’re excellent at is set-pieces. Generally, we had management over the sport and scored from two counter-attacks, which is perhaps not what we might anticipate.
“If I have a look at the video games which might be forward, they’re robust. It is going to be a tricky season typically. Margins are small, we’ve got a margin, however it’s small. [There are] many challenges to come back for us.”
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Slot has obtained off to a wonderful begin since succeeding Jurgen Klopp as supervisor initially of the season, as he turned simply the fourth supervisor to win as many as 9 of his first 11 Premier League video games in cost, after John Gregory, Guus Hiddink, and Carlo Ancelotti.
Liverpool now have 28 factors within the league. They’ve solely beforehand equalled this complete as soon as after 11 video games, of their title-winning season of 2019-20 (31).
Equally, no supervisor has ever gained extra factors from their first 11 video games within the competitors than Slot. The Dutchman shouldn’t be involved by totals or margins, nonetheless, together with his focus remaining on the philosophy he desires to instil at Anfield.
“As a supervisor, in the event you come into a brand new membership, you don’t take into consideration what number of factors after what number of video games,” he advised BBC Match of the Day. “You concentrate on altering the fashion or retaining it because it was.
“To vary the fashion, you must do lots of issues on the coaching floor and in conferences. The one factor I’ve considered is how one can implement the enjoying fashion, and the way to ensure the gamers maintain working as laborious as they will.”
