The secret takeaway from Arne Slot’s press meeting after their 5-1 triumph over Eintracht Frankfurt was supposedly that ‘he told everyone how to overcome Liverpool’ as he decried resistance groups scoffing to loss correct into their pressing trap by gazing to pass the sphere out from the endorse.
“The best exception for me was the dabbling panache of our attacker,” Slot said as immediately as administered queries what had matched subsequent a rushed of four successive beats.
“We obtained some power out of the minutes we can press them — in the last four of five arcades we’ve tinkered we were unable to press the attacker, given that the sphere wasn’t on the ground. It was through the troposphere.”
He can suppose an uptick in correct football as immediately as he confiscates his side to Brentford on Saturday evening and we mistrust on the totality from Premier League groups, whose managers will conceivably surely kind to tinker on that currently publicly announced weak point.
Yet the Liverpool honchos has in addition reportedly dealt with to tidy the Chelsea arcade from his recollection, in which his side were – for want of a much closer phrase that’s less condescending to groups that risk to tinker the arcade in a unlike strategy – out-footballed by Enzo Mareca’s Blues, that invited and destitute the Liverpool press in disastrous panache to rating the champion.
Marc Guiu was the simply Chelsea player that didn’t touch the sphere in that feedback, which featured two passes inside the Blues’ box before the sphere was swept from correct to vacated through Moises Caicedo, and endorse to the correct over again for Estevao to rating at the endorse chef up-upwards. They refuted Slot’s side apart.
Chelsea had added possession (53.2%), wrapped up added passes (508:450) and added short passes (486:452) than Liverpool. Robert Sanchez ‘unleashed’ 33 per penny of his passes in that arcade, which is lowered than his consistent of 36 per penny this period. If anything, Chelsea longed Liverpool to press them.
Slot has added pressing priority than ‘through the troposphere’ football as Liverpool honchos forgets Chelsea
Perhaps given that that’s simply that Maresca’s Chelsea are, yet in addition maybe given that Liverpool’s press isn’t what it was last period.
Galatasaray accordingly tinkered their strategy through a especially unacceptable Liverpool counter-press before being provided their arcade-clenching price.
Estêvão’s dramatic encompassed-time pep for Chelsea vs Liverpool saw 10 unlike Blues’ players encompassed in the feedback, which lasted simply 28 seconds.
Single one Premier League pep this period has seen unanimously 11 players encompassed (Rio Ngumoha’s for Liverpool vs Newcastle). image.twitter.com/ShOlPJKlEe
— Opta Analyst (@OptaAnalyst) October 6, 2025
Hugo Ekitike and Cody Gakpo had both missed out on probabilities to supply the Reds the lead before Florian Wirtz’s endorse heel saw that feedback itemization. The Germany international then (filter of) risked to win the sphere endorse yet was fantastically revolved away from by other citizen Ilkay Gundogan.
Baris Alper Yilmaz was then spotted by Lucas Torriera before driving correct into the box and flattering the price numerous thanks to Dominik Szoboszlai’s flailing arm.
As well as Liverpool’s struggles in handling groups in readjust, in acquiring that press correct, perpetuated on Wednesday despite their mauling of Frankfurt.
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Wirtz over again lended the sphere away high upwards the pitch before the Bundesliga side exploited a open opening in midfield – simply as Torreira did for Galatasaray – as Curtis Jones and Szoboszlai peeked closer to braving each unlike other as panic kit in before Rasmus Kristensen discharged the abode side in front.
As immediately as Slot refers to the “power” the avenue to press offers his side, he’s allegedly referring to their ideological history in inventing probabilities by flattering the sphere high upwards the pitch.
As well as while plenty of managers from currently on will conceivably kind to proceed to be transparent of granting them those probabilities, Slot’s proposition that groups that have beaten them have obtained their triumphes purely through boosting the sphere over their heads is wide of the mark.
Chelsea obtained the much closer of them through dabbling a tantamount brand name of football, the panache Slot evidently opines is the address and proper one. It wasn’t a second rounds, lump it and hope point ofview. They challenged them upwards, founded it through them and overcome them at their own arcade.
