Slot: An Almost Perfect Performance - Ipswich Town News
Liverpool head coach Arne Slot hailed his team’s display as they beat the Blues 4-1 at Anfield as “almost a perfect performance”.
The Premier League leaders dominated from the off and were 3-0 in front at half-time, adding a fourth after the break with Jacob Greaves pulling one back for Town with a header from debutant sub Julio Enciso’s corner in the final minute.
Slot felt the opening goal coming in the 11th minute, via Dominik Szoboszlai was key to making it such a comfortable afternoon for the Reds, who are now unbeaten in 18 in the Premier League.
"Yeah, that’s mostly because we scored an early goal,” he said. "It’s been a few times now that we played a home game that we conceded a goal in the start of the game, but I think today is the way you want to start the game: we were aggressive, dominant.
"For 85 minutes they have hardly been in our half, I think. It is a counter-attack threat with the wingers they have and with [Liam] Delap but we managed to control that so, so, so well because of the amount of work we have put in.
"In the end, we are all a bit disappointed with conceding [from] a corner – the first one this season – but for 85 minutes it was almost a perfect performance, against a team that goes to such a low block. That’s not always easy then, but the way we did it for 85 minutes was really good.”
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