Liverpool Vs Aston Villa: Arne Slot Keeps Perfect Record

Liverpool have ambitions to extend their winning record against Aston Villa (X/@LFC)

JAKARTA - Aston Villa will be Liverpool's obstacle to extending the winning record in the English Premier League duel at Anfield Stadium, Sunday, November 10, 2024 in the morning WIB. Arne Slot's manager is optimistic that Liverpool will be able to maintain the record and maintain or win the standings throne.

Slot proved his performance was not arbitrary. Liverpool are getting bigger not only in Premier League competitions but also in the Champions League. In the last match in European competition, Liverpool beat Xabi Alonso Bayer Leverkusen's side 4-0. The victory that confirmed Liverpool's position at the top by winning all the first matches in the Champions League.

Alonso himself is none other than the former Liverpool pillar who played a major role in bringing the Reds to win the 2005 Champions League. Alonso, who later became a candidate to replace Juergen Klopp when he resigned. But Alonso, who is also targeted by Real Madrid and Bayern Munich, chose to stay at Leverkusen. Liverpool themselves chose Slot, who at that time handled Feyenoord as Klopp's successor.

It turned out that Liverpool's choice was not wrong. Slot seemed to have continued well with Klopp's pending work. Slot has already shown performance by passing the record of legendary managers while bringing Liverpool to nine wins from the first 10 matches.

The unbeaten record is still maintained. Liverpoo has won 14 times from 16 matches in various competitions. In the Premier League, Mohamed Salah et al had been bothered by Brighton and Hove Albion before winning 2-1. Liverpool are indeed flying high. Namu Slot apparently estimates that his team will accelerate despite changing managers.

"I'm not surprised because I already know the quality of this team," said Slot. Not only has quality but this team is very consistent. When I look at the players' daily lives, I'm not getting surprised anymore by their energy," he said.

"Sometimes, we do have luck. But when I started working with them, I found out how hard they worked to get the best results," said Slot again.

Now, Slot took on a difficult task when Liverpool hosted Aston Villa which actually experienced a decline after beating Fulham 3-1 and then winning 2-0 over Bologna in the Champions League.

Instead of maintaining consistency, Unai Emery's team lost points at home to Crystal Palace and lost 2-1. Furthermore, The Villans visited Tottenham Hotspur's headquarters in North London. As a result, they were even massacred 4-1. Bad achievements continued in the Champions League when Villa were forced to give up 1-0 by Club Brugge.

Emery didn't want Villa to fail again despite playing at Anfield. Moreover, Emery believes his team will be able to keep up with Liverpool.

"We are facing Liverpool, which for the last two years we have competed closely with them. Now is the time for us to show our capacity against them," Emery said.

"It's a big challenge for us how to stop them. Of course we will play with high enthusiasm. We have to be able to play like last season when we were able to finish in fourth place," he said.

In the match against Liverpool, Emery again relied on striker total Watkin who was supported by Jacob Ramsey, Morgan Rogers and John McGinn. While in the middle there are Amadou Onana and Yoeri Tielemans.

Defender Pau Torres is Emery's hope to hinder Liverpool's bumpy attack, which this time relied on Darwin Nunez because Diogo Jota is still absent. He worked hand in hand with Luis Diaz who scored a hat trick in the match against Leverkusen.

Not only Diaz but Dominik Szoboszlai and Salah who supported Nunez. In the goalkeeper's position, Alisson Becker did not appear because he had not yet recovered. His position was replaced by Caoimhin Kelher.