Liverpool supervisor Arne Slot says his aspect usually are not feeling nervous as they enter the Premier League run in with a seven-point lead over Arsenal.
The Reds beat Wolves 2-1 at Anfield on Sunday with out having a shot on aim within the second half – whereas Wolves had 10 and got here near stealing a shock level.
However Slot says slender wins are to be anticipated at this stage of the season and is anticipating one other stern examination once they face Aston Villa away on Wednesday night time.
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He stated: “We now have gained different video games at dwelling or away by one aim when it was additionally tight. If this occurs on the finish of the season folks will speak about nerves, however to safe a win within the Premier League if you’re solely main by just one aim is all the time going to be a whole lot of defending and a whole lot of exhausting work.
“Throughout giant elements of the season it’s simply exhausting work, however on the finish of the season we speak about nerves.
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“Ultimately section of the season a whole lot of video games are actually tight. Not solely ours. If I have a look at all the outcomes, even Barcelona yesterday, who I love quite a bit and have performed actually good soccer this season, ultimately they have been near conceding and making it 1-1.
“It’s the finish section of the season the place outcomes like this are fairly frequent, like in our title-winning season with Feyenoord as effectively. It tells you that it’s important to combat till the tip and these video games it’s essential win to realize one thing.”
‘They’ve an incredible dwelling report’
Liverpool are but to lose on the street below Slot, and Villa have gained simply one in every of their final 14 Premier League video games towards Liverpool.
However Slot thinks Villa – who’ve added Marcus Rashford and Marco Asensio to their assault – will show a tricky nut to crack.
“Whenever you get the fixture checklist I believe Villa away you have a look at as one of many harder ones you possibly can face,” Slot stated
“[They have] an excellent supervisor [Unai Emery] who all the time has an excellent sport plan. He has introduced in numerous good gamers within the winter break, they usually already had an excellent workforce. They certified for high eight within the Champions League, so it tells you it’s a robust workforce we’re going to face.
“They’ve an incredible dwelling report, possibly much more once they play within the night, so we all know that’s going to be a problem however we now have fairly an OK away report this season. We now have carried out fairly OK this season generally as effectively so it’s a sport for everybody to sit up for.”
Crew information
Slot confirmed that defender Joe Gomez and Cody Gakpo are each nonetheless out of motion.
He stated: “Cody is the closest to coming again however Joe will take fairly a while. He’s going to be out for a variety of weeks due to a hamstring harm.
“It’s an enormous blow for Joe and for us. He tries to do every part to be with the workforce. He works actually exhausting to return again after which the primary sport when he got here again after two or three minutes we noticed him making a dash and now he’s out for weeks once more.
“In order that’s all the time very exhausting for a participant in each a part of the season, not to mention part of the season everyone seems to be wanting ahead to.”
