Liverpool boss Arne Slot has been chatting with the media earlier than Saturday’s Premier League recreation towards West Ham at Anfield (kick-off 15:00 GMT).
Here are the important thing strains from his information convention:
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Jeremie Frimpong has skilled “a few times this week” so is obtainable to face West Ham.
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Florian Wirtz stays sidelined with an harm which he described as “a disappointment for him and for us”. On the time scale for his return, he added: “I don’t know. Usually when I say that, I do know and I don’t want to share that. But this time, I honestly don’t know.”
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Slot stated ending Mohamed Salah’s goalless run is a “challenge he has” and “a team thing they have to improve” on.
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More on Salah: “He sets his own standards and they were so, so high. When he doesn’t score for a few games, it means people are surprised. We are used to Mo scoring a lot of goals, but we also know this has happened before and in the end, he always starts scoring again.”
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Slot added that Salah “is not our only attacker that’s not scoring as much”, as Hugo Ekitike and Cody Gakpo have additionally not scored as many not too long ago.
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On one other win placing stress on groups battling for prime 4: “We’re not so focused on other teams and mainly on ourselves. We know we need to win a lot of games and that is what our focus is on. We are aware of the league table.”
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He stated Rio Ngumoha’s enjoying time has improved massively over the previous couple of weeks as a result of he “developed and became a better player”.
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On going through one other team close to the underside of the league after struggling to interrupt down Nottingham Forest final weekend: “I cannot manipulate the fact we have struggled a lot against the teams who were promoted or near the bottom. We understand how difficult winning games in general is, it doesn’t matter where they are in the table.”
Listen to dwell commentary of Liverpool vs West Ham on BBC Radio 5 Live from 15:00 GMT on Sunday.
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