Martin Zubimendi and the U-turn that set Liverpool on the road to Premier League glory

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After a game against a team weakened by the absence of a Liverpool target, comes a meeting with a side strengthened by the player Slot hoped to make his first signing.

There was no Alexander Isak for Newcastle on Monday.

“Not every single game last season was Tottenham away [a 6-3 win] or West Ham away [a 5-0 thrashing],” he rationalised.



“And always if you win, everybody is always looking back at some great attacks and great wins, but the amount of times we struggled last season in a game of football was a lot.

To romanticise last season as much as we do, and sometimes we make that mistake inside this building, I think that’s incorrect – because last season, most wins were only by one goal and we had to fight really hard for it.”

Liverpool have had to fight again, but in a different way: leading 2-0 in each league game, they were pegged back in each, only to salvage victory with late goals.

Whereas Arsenal are yet to concede this season, Liverpool have conceded twice in all three matches, including the Community Shield.

“He had Ryan in front of him every single game [last season], and Ryan didn’t play the other two [the Community Shield and against Bournemouth], so it is partly adjustment to each other.”

A reason, perhaps, that Liverpool were champions last season is that they hardly had to adjust to anyone different; except, of course, Slot himself.