Slot says Liverpool ‘not thinking about the league table’ | OneFootball

Arne Slot has said Liverpool are not thinking about the league table or the Premier League title race.

Liverpool lead the Premier League table by four points ahead of this weekend’s trip to Brentford. The Reds also have a game in hand on the sides below them, having emerged as frontrunners for the title.

However, Slot’s side have seen their lead reduced after successive draws in recent weeks, while it’s now four draws from their last seven Premier League games.

Speaking at his pre-match press conference, Slot said his team are not concerned by the table and focused only on the next challenge – starting at Brentford.

“I don’t think we are as much as the media thinking about the league table every second of the day. We are trying to get the best out of the players, and with ‘we’ I mean my staff and the players trying to get the best out of themselves every single day.

“These players know how long the season still is and how many games they have to be in the best possible form to win something in the end of the season, which is not something that happens every single season.

“We are not so focused on the league as other people are. But we are focused on getting a good training session today and getting a good game tomorrow. And as a result of that, we are hoping for a result. But the only way to get a result is to work on a daily basis in the best possible way.”

Liverpool have recorded just one clean sheet in their last seven games, a decline from their early season defensive record. However, Slot said he is unconcerned and believes his team are still defending as impressively.

“Not as many [clean sheets] as we did before. I wouldn’t say it’s a concern but it’s also not what we want because it was one of our strengths also at the beginning of the season that we kept a lot of clean sheets. But it’s every time the same what I am saying now – so, we have talked about the strikers or the attackers sometimes having a bit of difficulties to score – I think if I look at the amount of chances we gave away in the last seven games and I look at how many chances we gave away in all the games before, I don’t see much difference.

“The only difference is that the teams we are facing at the moment – so, Forest for example, they had one serious shot on target and that was a goal. That is not normal in football and this has happened to us. United had maybe three good chances against us and scored two, Tottenham had hardly any chances apart from the one when where Ali [Alisson Becker] lost the ball and the one chance they had in the end they scored.

“So, that is, like with strikers, sometimes a phase in the season where you hardly concede anything but still they score. I’ve said already, Crystal Palace away, that we beat 1-0, 10 minutes before the end they went one-v-one against Veet [Vitezslav Jaros] and that was a bigger chance maybe than some goals we have conceded recently. So, sometimes you are a bit lucky and sometimes your goalkeeper makes a great save. But like the amount of chances we create, we hardly concede a chance and that has been the same for the whole season, but when it comes to collecting points I also see a bit of a difference at the moment compared to the beginning of the season.”

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