Arne Slot should use old trick to get Liverpool's Mohamed Salah firing - it worked on me

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Also is a former Liverpool FC and Republic of Ireland striker whose keen eye for goal is now match with his cutting analysis of the modern game.The main thing I used to tell myself in the build up to a game against Manchester United was to not let my heart rule my head on the day. Sometimes I struggled to listen to that on the day itself.It's the biggest game in the calendar and there is dislike and respect between the two but for the players, they won't all have the same feelings as I used to when I came to prepare for this one.They will assess things tactically, of course, but the modern game means there is less danger of players losing their heads in the heat of battle but I suspect Liverpool will get more joy if they go back to basics this weekend.READ MORE: 'Florian Wirtz is no Luis Suarez but I don't think Liverpool regret selling Luis Diaz'When we used to analyse opponents, we were never overly concerned because we knew, at the end of the day, we had the better players.

Reputations shouldn't really matter, if you are not at the races then the manager sometimes has a big decision to make and I don't think Liverpool's would shirk it if it came down to it, especially with the players he has elsewhere in that forward line.When I was at Oxford, I remember my manager Maurice Evans telling me one day that I'd been out of sorts and needed to come out of the team. Essentially, he was telling me I needed to sort myself out.

It was one of the oldest tricks in a coach's' book, but it woke me up.The next game, we played Gillingham, I started and scored four goals in a 6-0 win and when I look back now, it was superb man-management from Evans, who got exactly the sort of response he was after.Could Slot repeat the trick with Salah this week? We know he is a great man-manager, so let's see.