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Every word from Arne Slot on Alisson Becker injury, Ibrahima Konate form and Mohamed Salah problem

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"But when he plays his first game, that's always the best way of seeing that he's adjusted well or not — and I think we've seen in that game that he's adjusted really well to our goal, which is not a surprise because he's a quality goalkeeper. We need to do better and that's what we're going to try." On Alexander Isak's settling-in period: "I said to him when he started that the difficult thing will be you will have your appearances, like you just said, but if you add the minutes together, [he] probably only had two or three 90-minute games.



"But we are, in my opinion, too focused on this season, but the last part of last season had a lot of similarities with the start of this season — with one exception that [in] the second part of last season we scored seven set-pieces, which led to a lot of wins, and this season we've conceded four, I think. This season, we have had many chances from set-pieces as well — unfortunately we didn't score yet." On working harder on set-pieces or if it's a case of needing more luck: "What I just said, we've been very close to scoring [from] set-pieces this season already.

But that is one moment in many minutes he's played there." On Mohamed Salah's form: "I think also over there, I see the same as the second part of last season, where he scored 12 goals, five from penalties [and] one from a set-piece, so six open-play goals. The more we will play together in the new set-up, the better that will go, but we still struggled a bit to find enough goals from open play in the second part of last and the first part of this season." On Ibrahima Konate's performances so far this season: "What I think is if you are losing a game of football, as we did against Galatasaray and against Palace, then it doesn't help if you lose a ball a few times very easily.