Arne Slot Will Warmly Welcome This Player at Anfield: I Have Beautiful Memories

NGAWI JOURNALLiverpool manager Arne Slot has spoken to the media ahead of the Champions League match against Real Madrid.

Liverpool defeated Aston Villa 2-0, and the English champions have only secured two wins from eight matches in all competitions under Slot, who is under immense pressure. The Reds beat Madrid 2-0 in their last match and hope for a similar result this time.

Trent Alexander Arnold will receive a 'warm welcome'

The first slot talks about Trent Alexander Arnold, who will return to Anfield this week for the first time since leaving for Madrid in the summer in a highly controversial move.

I can only tell the reception he received from me. I have beautiful memories about the player and the person, my vice captain. I have positive memories of working with him.

I watched it on television, and there are only beautiful memories with him in the Liverpool uniform. He will be warmly welcomed by me, but let's see how our fans react, I don't know. My warm welcome, that's for sure.

Team news

He then switched to team news and fitness updates on goalkeeper Alisson Becker, right-back Jeremie Frimpong and striker Alexander Isak:

They are all unavailable tomorrow. Jeremie and Alisson will also be unavailable for Sunday (against Manchester City). Isak, we have to wait and see.

Clearly, he will not be a starter, maybe he can enter the squad, but he hasn't trained yet, so we'll just wait.

Not thinking about Man City

The Dutch coach returned to the basic formation against Villa and secured three points. The media asked whether his team would be the starting team ahead of the match against Manchester City this weekend.

The Sunday match is not in my mind regarding the team lineup for tomorrow. There is a four-day break, and we often experience periods where the break is only two days. Tomorrow will be the same, but the conditions are the same for both teams.

The starting lineup will not affect the match on Sunday. Fortunately, we won on Saturday - and it's time for us to start winning again.

Every match we play is an exam, not like last season. We are playing at home, but we are going to City. Real Madrid have had many injuries, and now they don't. We are a different team. City have also made some changes like us. Every match we play now is always an exam to see where we stand. It happened a week ago, two weeks ago, and it's the same this week.

Supporting Wirtz

The next position is open for the newly recruited player in the summer, Florian Wirtz, who has started his career with various things in Merseyside, not scoring a goal and providing three assists in 14 appearances so far.

It could be said that he has been a starter in one of the last four matches, but also in several matches this season. It's not an excuse, it's just how it is, but we have often played three times in seven days. For players from other leagues, the Premier League is a bit more intense, especially in all matches and top matches.

If you see it, he plays a lot, influences many matches, sometimes unlucky in the final result, both for himself and his teammates.

He can create many opportunities for the team, he will score goals, but I think that doesn't surprise anyone. If you are 22 years old in a new league, some adjustment is needed. Gravenberch has just sat here and needed a fairly long time to adapt, maybe even longer than Florian.

Should Gravenberch take more shots?

Finally, Slot was asked about Ryan Gravenberch's goal against Aston Villa this weekend whether he had asked him to shoot more often.

I didn't tell him to shoot more, but now he is more inside and around the penalty box. The main thing he needs to do is organize the attack and break down the defense, but sometimes he can also help in the offensive.

This week he was a bit lucky, and the ball swerved to score a goal.

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