Arne Slot makes 'not realistic' Liverpool claim after Champions League improvement
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The Reds produced an emphatic display to progress to the Champions League quarter-finals on Wednesday, but Arne Slot's attention quickly turned to the next challenge in the Premier LeagueArne Slot said it will be difficult for Liverpool to replicate the performance against Brighton that the Reds showed at home to GalatasarayArne Slot claimed it will be “unrealistic” to expect Liverpool to repeat the levels shown against Galatasaray when the Reds travel to Brighton in the Premier League on Saturday.Liverpool secured passage to the Champions League quarter-finals courtesy of a 4-0 win over Galatasaray at Anfield, with Dominik Szoboszlai, Hugo Ekitike, Ryan Gravenberch and Mohamed Salah on target in perhaps the Reds’ best display in what has been such an underwhelming campaign.Liverpool dominated from start to finish and produced 16 shots on target in the last-16 second leg, which equated to an expected goals of over 5.0. In contrast, the visitors managed just two shots all night.READ MORE: Arne Slot provides Mo Salah injury update after Liverpool star asked to come offREAD MORE: Liverpool discovers PSG fixture date as Champions League reunion beckonsWhile Slot expressed his delight at such a convincing victory, he said that the short turnaround to Saturday’s early kick-off against Brighton means replicating those standards is virtually impossible.“It is not as simple as you think to say: ‘If you bring this tonight, you can bring this every game’,” the Dutchman told reporters after the Champions League win.“There is an opponent to play against, a style of play, there are so many factors why we could bring tonight what we could bring.“It is fair to say for me and you, because you are following Liverpool so many times, that Anfield and the players can also rise to the occasion on a European night.Slot was delighted with Liverpool's performance against Galatasaray(Image: Getty Images)“There have been many, many moments or parts of games when we have shown this but usually have 10 minutes where we drop down a little bit or the other team takes over and 99 out of 100 times is the moment we have conceded because that’s the first chance for them and they score.“Now, today that didn’t happen because we did not concede at all and didn’t drop at all in terms of our intensity.“So yeah, we would like us to perform every single time at this level.
Unfortunately, for the fifth, sixth time now, I think that we only get two days’ rest to go to Brighton, early kick-off. For me, that's not realistic.Liverpool faces another tough game against Brighton on Saturday“You see more and more players get injured in this period of time because it is such a tight schedule.
We should have been given more rest but that hasn’t happened a lot to us this season.“Brighton is an intense team we are going to face and we will bring the best game possible again on Saturday, but you cannot compare Brighton to Galatasaray or Tottenham to Galatasaray. Every game has its own story but I hope this standard we are looking for, so let’s see if we can bring this every single time from now on.Expanding the circumstances surrounding the win over Galatasaray, Slot added: “It's not the first one this season, we've had more of them – especially in Europe – and we have to try to find the consistency, although I can already disappoint people: this performance is impossible to copy one more time because 5.02xG on a Champions League night with conceding 0.18, I think, that is not going to be easy to copy one more time.”