- Liverpool will seek to maintain their title charge when they face Southampton
- Arne Slot insisted that the shock with the saints is the most important of their season
- Listen now: everything is launched! Is it hard on Anthony Gordon that the final of the Carabao Cup is missing?
Arne Slot warned Liverpool players who are faced with a week of three finals – and this Anfield confrontation on Saturday with Southampton is the most important of all.
Liverpool will have to comfortably beat the lower team of the Premier League, but Slot, which should make several modifications to its starting program, fell to the idea that this game is considered by many as a lost conclusion.
Although the return leg of the last 16 games of the Champions League with Paris St Germain and the Carabao Cup compete with Newcastle in Wembley are the matches that have seized the imagination of the supporters, Slot underlined what is at stake against Southampton.
“For me, Southampton is by far the most important game,” said Slot. “It’s very important to us. If I choose to play other players, it’s because I think it’s the best way to win the game and not because I want to rest for PSG.
“If I do it, it’s because there are only two days between the two, but it is only to give us a better chance of winning against Southampton.
“I have to convince my players that we play three finals, but I also hope that I will influence our fans.
Arne Slot insisted that Liverpool was confronted with “ three finals ” during the coming week
The Reds welcome Southampton in a crucial match as they seek to maintain their title
“I hope they will not come in the stadium five minutes before kick-off and it is completely filled half an hour before kick-off, so these players get the award for what they did in Paris.”
Paddy Power bookmakers have already paid on the prospect that Liverpool became champion and a victory in Anfield would see them at 16 Arsenal points before launching Old Trafford on Sunday; Their 7-1 victory in Eindhoven on Tuesday, however, shows that they cannot be reduced.
“I don’t need to watch Arsenal,” said Slot, who is probably without Cody Gakpo.
“We just have to watch the match that we played against Southampton outside, 3-2 victory, very difficult, twice a goal below, so we don’t look at Arsenal, we only have to look at each other.”
