Liverpool out of tune but Arne Slot working on finding better rhythm

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“But we didn’t shut our eyes for the second part of the season to how many times we needed a set piece [to win]. We’ve brought in a very different midfielder than we had last season [Florian Wirtz], which we think we needed because there was a big, big difference between the amount of goals we found from open play in the first part of last season and the second part of last season.”Midfielder Alexis Mac Allister (left) is not yet at 100% as he recovers from a groin injury.

In the first 19 league games of his debut season Liverpool scored 47 goals with 40 (85.1%) coming from open play. That’s why we had the window we had: sometimes to replace, sometimes to add a certain quality.skip past newsletter promotionafter newsletter promotion“It’s up to us to show that we can do better in these kind of games than we did in the second part of last season and the first part of this season.

This is what we have to work on and this is what we have to do better than we’ve done until now.“We unlocked teams in the second half of last season by scoring from seven corner kicks. If you talk about open-play goals, we’ve done much better in the first part of this season than the second part of last season.