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‘A good one’, every word from Arne Slot’s press conference after Liverpool’s 2-0 Bologna win
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‘A good one’, every word from Arne Slot’s press conference after Liverpool’s 2-0 Bologna win

On his first experience of a Champions League match at Anfield…

(It was) a good one because it was a win. It wasn’t easy, but that’s normal when you play Champions League. There is always a lot of resistance and there are a lot of good teams playing in the Champions League – and Bologna is one of them. You could also see the (different) result tonight where we may have seen surprising results. It was good to win, a clean sheet, some good individual performances, so overall positive.

That there is still more room for improvement…

The thing is, you’ll probably never achieve perfection. You always strive for perfection, but you never achieve it. We can improve, we have to improve, that’s clear, but there are also a lot of positives to take from tonight and from the other games as well. There was a spell in the game where we had no control and they threatened us more than I’d like to see, but again, this is normal. I watched a lot of games yesterday, I watched some games before we played, in the Champions League (and) it’s never the case that there’s only one team playing – there’s always two teams playing. I think we had more possession for most parts of the game, but they threatened us, especially in the latter stages of the first half on a few occasions.

About Salah’s club record goal…

What can I say about Mo? What you saw today is what you get. If you put him in positions like this often enough, he can score a goal. He also had a great assist. I think the second (goal). When you look at the way he scored, I understand everyone is talking about the finish because it was a fantastic finish. Just before he had almost the same one, but it would not do justice to Virgil (van Dijk), to Diogo (Jota), to Dom (Szoboszlai) and to Trent (Alexander-Arnold) if we only talked about the great finish because Virgil played a fantastic ball through, Diogo dropped, turned, Dom was involved again – he was also involved in the first goal – and Trent made a crucial overlapping run because that opened up the space inside for Mo to do what Mo does always.