Every word Arne Slot said before Tottenham with 4 injury updates and Mohamed Salah question

Below is a summary of the full article. Click here for the full version from Liverpool.com or go back to LFC Live.

He was in the squad and he was the first substitution I made."Now he's at the AFCON playing big games for himself but also for the country, so I think it's fair to them — but definitely also for us because we are going to play some very important games — that all the focus for him is over there and there should not be any distraction from me saying anything about his time at Liverpool.READ MORE: Liverpool handed major double injury boost as Arne Slot confirms timeline for Cody Gakpo returnREAD MORE: Arne Slot responds to unexpected Mohamed Salah question with telling reply"What I said: we've moved on after the Leeds interview and he played against Brighton. I think the main thing for us is to build on what we are building on in the last five games."I think with the exception of Brighton maybe, because we did concede a lot of chances against them, but the other games we were solid defensively and that's a good base, combined with that the players are getting more and more ready to compete at Premier League intensity as a group."So, I think we can expect more from us in the upcoming part of the season than what we've shown before, but I assume that everybody would expect that [of themselves] as well."Slot spoke at his press conference on Friday(Image: Liverpool FC)On having a week to prepare between matches: "I think it's always helpful for a manager to work on the training pitch with the players, especially if you bring in players — not all of them but a few of them — a little bit later in the window."With Alex [Isak], for example, he's the best example of that on the first of September.

I think I said it after the game and this is something I just said as well: he had to go off in the Brighton game after 70 minutes because he had cramp, but he did almost double the amount of work he did three months ago where I also had to take him off with cramp."But his ability to score, his technique, his speed, all these things, that's just what he has, so no-one is surprised to see that. Defensively, I'm more and more excited to see what he's doing as well."On Curtis Jones' form: "He's done really good in the last three games and I think that's not the first time.

But maybe since I'm here it's the first time that it's three times in a row that he brings in very, very good performances."He's had in the past also very good performances and a game later I didn't like the performance as much as I did now recently in his last three games. His last three performances are the base where we expect him to go on, but that starts tomorrow against a challenging opponent like Spurs."On finding the balance between defense and offense: "I think we are getting closer and closer to the team I want us to be, and that has gone with ups and downs, let's be completely clear about that.