Arne Slot Optimistic: Mental Team Recovers After Two Defeats

Liverpool manager, Arne Slot (@liverpoolfc)

JAKARTA - Liverpool coach Arne Slot admits his team is very excited to look at the remaining nine matches in the Premier League, which will start from the match against Everton at Anfield on Thursday 5 April at 02.00 WIB.

This is said by Slot because in the next few matches this will greatly determine the pace of his team which currently benefits the most to win the Premier League because it is nine points ahead of Arsenal.

"Everyone can understand our current position, that we are all looking forward to the next nine matches," Slot said, quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, April 2.

The former Feyennoord coach also revealed that his team's mental condition was good after swallowing two important defeats against Paris Saint-Germain in the last 16 of the Champions League and Newcastle United in the League Cup final.

He admitted that there was an international break after the two defeats helped his team recover mentally.

"Because if you then stay at your club, you have to win the next game, but if you go to the national team, things will come back new and the same if you move from the Premier League to the Champions League. It's a different league. Maybe it also helps," he explained.

Meanwhile, regarding the match against Everton, Slot expects the game to run relatively the same as the first meeting at Goodison Park on February 13 which ended 2-2.

He admitted that it was possible that the match would be more difficult considering that David Moyes' team had not lost their last nine league games.

However, Slot felt for the second meeting his team would be in a slightly better condition because they played in front of tens of thousands of supporters themselves.

"But with one difference: every time Everton players do something good, they don't get cheers and reactions from 50,000 people - I don't know how many can be present at Goodison Park," said the Dutchman.

"Our players will get that reaction after every tackle they make, after every pass they do, and that's a different emotion," he added.