Arne Slot refuses to tell fans how to react to Trent – but does ask Anfield to “show up”

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Arne Slot has asked Anfield to “show up” again for Real Madrid‘s Champions League visit, with Liverpool’s head coach not placing any expectation on the reception for a former player. “I think Anfield showed [on] Saturday how important they can be for the team, so let’s hope the players and the team, and the fans, can do the same tomorrow evening.” For players and fans alike, the occasion speaks for itself and a hostile atmosphere would have been expected with or without the added element of Trent Alexander-Arnold‘s return to Anfield.

Slot: Trent will get a “warm welcome from me” A lot of pre-match focus has centred on the reaction that awaits Alexander-Arnold on his Anfield return, but Slot could only speak to how he would receive his former player. “Let’s first wait and see if he’s on the pitch tomorrow and how our fans will react.

I have no clue how that’s going to be. But he gets a warm welcome from me, that’s for sure.” At least Slot is not preaching for a certain reaction from the fans!