Arne Slot denies Curtis Jones suggestion as Liverpool transfer decision looms

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"Playing not in your own position in a very difficult away game, difficult circumstances, and to have that performance is really good."But when I look a bit deeper into it, he is one of the players I spoke to this week that in certain situations he has to position himself a little bit more as a natural full-back. That was a quality that a right-back had for a long time who played here before, a very, very comfortable player on the ball in Trent Alexander-Arnold."He gave I wouldn't say a copy of Trent, but Curtis gave us that quality on the ball - calm, finding the right passes, starting to dribble, he gave us that in the Everton game and that helped us."Of suggestions Jones would have wanted more action this season, Slot responded: "Since I am the manager he plays much more minutes than he ever did before.

If you have a lot of injuries, then in the top 25 there are five or six players of ours with the most minutes played."Curtis played a good game against Everton, although now all of a sudden everybody had a good game because we won."I can tell you we played much better games when we have lost or drawn. But that's how football works - if we win then everybody played a great game, and if we lose then it's all s***."Jones could retain his place at right-back this afternoon although Jeremie Frimpong and the fit-again Joe Gomez are both pressing for a recall.While only the bottom two teams have scored less in the Premier League goals than Palace, just title contenders Manchester City and Arsenal have leaked fewer.It means the Anfield showdown could be a war of attrition with Liverpool seeking the victory that will edge them nearer a top-five berth and Champions League qualification after a season in which their style of play has led to "boring" accusations on occasion."I definitely don’t like hearing that, but in some moments it was true," said Slot.

Then you start to win and it’s, ‘well, you played a great game against Everton’. I can tell you we had a great result, but we did not play a great game over there.