Liverpool beating Manchester United would be ideal for Arne Slot's own 'judgement day'

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So if I am better than you then that will help them improve even more."People constantly say it's been so hard and yes, we've had setbacks - that's clear and obvious but it has been so hard because we have had injuries. I can go on like Florian Wirtz is a completely different No.10 to Dominik Szoboszlai."So you constantly have to adjust to your players.

How to build up to the players you have available, so that has been an adjustment and hard that every time you think you have the solution you have to change details again."Slot is right to an extent when he talks up the raft of injuries. What makes it hard is trying to win the next game with so many players unavailable.

When we start to lose - which we have done more than I, the fans and everyone at Liverpool would like - there is criticism. But what makes it hard is that we missed so many players, so many important players, so many times this season."Criticism is nothing new at a club like Liverpool, where the glare is intense as it is incessant and there is a feeling that it is Slot, more than Liverpool themselves, who could use a result this weekend.Just five points from the 12 on offer are needed to at least secure a place in next season's Champions League, but observers are seeking elements that can be clung to in an attempt to show that next season won't be as turbulent as this one.