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Arne Slot unfazed by record-breaking Liverpool begin

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Arne Slot insisted he’s not all in favour of celebrating his record-breaking begin as Liverpool supervisor, having develop into the primary Reds boss to win at the very least eight of their opening 9 video games.

The eighth win of the Slot period got here on Wednesday courtesy of a 2-0 victory over Serie A facet Bologna within the Champions League, sustaining his good begin within the new format of the competitors.

Slot’s Liverpool have additionally overwhelmed Ipswich City, Brentford, Manchester United, AC Milan, Bournemouth, Wolverhampton Wanderers and West Ham United, with a 1-0 defeat to Nottingham Forest the one mark on his in any other case good begin to life as Jurgen Klopp’s successor.

“I do not draw many conclusions from that however it’s good,” Slot stated of his new report. “So, so many unbelievable managers have labored right here, doing so many particular issues.

“The one factor is I do not hope the one factor folks keep in mind me for in a single, two or three years – you by no means understand how lengthy I will be right here – they solely say, ‘that’s the supervisor who solely received eight of his 9 video games’.

“I am hoping to do extra particular issues than successful eight out of 9 video games.”

The win over Bologna was maybe not as comfy as a 2-0 scoreline would possibly counsel and Slot admitted Liverpool wanted to trip their luck at instances.

“They labored actually laborious to maintain a clear sheet once more at the moment, although we additionally wanted our goalkeeper on just a few events,” he defined.

“We scored two excellent targets, particularly the second. It’s at all times troublesome to play a crew takes that a lot danger and is continually on prime of you. General, an excellent consequence, however I would not use the phrase delighted myself at the moment.”

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