Arne Slot believes Liverpool have taken “step forward” despite dropped points

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The key stats Slot used to justify his ‘step forward’ comment “Four points out of two games is different from the last two home games we’ve played, in which we lost both and conceded seven goals,” Slot said ahead of Saturday’s trip to Leeds. “In the last two games, we were one deflection away from keeping two clean sheets.

It was Wirtz’s strike that Mukiele inadvertently deflected into the Sunderland net while Isak scored his first Liverpool goal at West Ham and has started the last two games, with Mohamed Salah dropping to the bench. “Every player is in my mind to start a game of football because we have so many good players,” Slot said.

He is always in my mind to either start or come in.” Salah, the club’s talisman for so many years now, and Slot’s decision to bench him has caused much debate – something the manager said he expects. “He deserves that because of the player he has been for this club and for his team-mates for six or seven years,” Slot said.