Arne Slot's approach to pre-match training is opposite to Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool - journalist

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Arne Slot’s approach to pre-match training at Liverpool is much more relaxed than Jurgen Klopp’s during his spell at Anfield.The Reds return to the field on Saturday afternoon, taking on West Ham United in a 3pm Premier League kick-off.Liverpool are aiming to chase down Manchester United and Chelsea in the race for Champions League football. Who should be Liverpool’s no.10 vs West Ham?

Mac Allister over Szoboszlai? 🤔 Credit: Julian Finney/Getty Images Losing out on a top-four/five place could be costly, and it’s imperative that no points are dropped against a side fighting relegation.Liverpool’s pre-match training is more relaxed under Arne SlotHowever, despite the big-game nature of every league match from now until the end of the season, Liverpool’s training is not expected to be high intensity.Instead, as James Pearce has explained on the Walk On podcast, Slot prefers to ease off on training as fixtures get closer, which is the opposite of Jurgen Klopp.He said: “It’s been a theme of the Slot era, they definitely get more time off than they got under Klopp. “In the same way as the training regime is different, where under Jurgen Klopp, they would crank things up in terms of the intensity of training over the course of a week.

“With Slot, he tends to ease off ahead of the game.” Liverpool are going to have to change this to make it to the UCL quarter-finals… Give us your early predictions for the last-16 clash with Galatasaray Photo Credit: Getty Images/Gerrit van Keulen/Soccrates How successful such an approach actually is can certainly be debated, and based on current form, will probably be used by some fans as another stick to beat Slot with.Liverpool, of course, won the Premier League title during their first season under the Dutch manager.However, 2025/26, at least in the league, has been something of a disaster for the current champions.A more relaxed training schedule pre-match doesn’t seem to have had much of an impact on injuries either.Liverpool remain without a few key names heading into West Ham, and several players like Jeremie Frimpong have had issues throughout the season.It’s hard to judge whether the Reds would have had more issues with higher intensity training, of course. But at the same time, easing off doesn’t seem to have negated injury issues more than any other side in the Premier League.Join Our NewsletterReceive a digest of our best Liverpool content each week direct to your mailbox