Not on me to comment on Chelsea's approach - Slot - video Dailymotion

Liverpool boss Arne Slot on how Chelsea have signed a lot of players on long term contracts Melwood, Liverpool, UK

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00:00You've faced a lot of shots in the league this season,

00:03it's clear that you're not giving the teams any opportunities,

00:07particularly with Cole Palmer, Noemi Nardewaayke being in such good form,

00:10how important will it be to keep up that good defensive form against Chelsea?

00:15No, very important.

00:18If you want to achieve something in the season,

00:21you need to be defensively really stable,

00:24and we've been that till now.

00:27Again, we have to take fiction into account as well.

00:32And now we face even better players,

00:34because I agree with you that Chelsea, like Man Utd,

00:37has a lot of great individuals,

00:41which we have to try to manage, to control.

00:45And that's not what one player does, that's what we have to do as a team.

00:49But we must not forget to create our own chances as well,

00:52because if you want to win, you need to score as well.

00:56Unfortunately, and a good thing for us, is that we have players that can score goals.

01:00So, yeah, looking forward to a very interesting game on Sunday.

01:06You made your side slightly smaller in the summer,

01:10whereas Chelsea, who can't have gone the other way,

01:12spent a lot of money on creating a pretty huge squad.

01:15What have you made of their approach?

01:18It's not up to me to say something about an approach,

01:21the only thing I saw and see is that they were already really successful

01:25in the second half of last season, and I think that's always a good...

01:33If a team does really well in the second half of the season, it's a good forecast,

01:37is that the right word to use?

01:38To what you can expect from them the next season.

01:40And they even got some new players in, some very good players in,

01:46and a very good manager they brought in,

01:48so for me it's not a surprise that they just keep continuing the results

01:53that they had in the second half of the season.

01:57It's a young team, that's the first thing that I see.

02:00A lot of them have long-term contracts, but I think they are in a good place at the moment,

02:06if I look at the quality they have, if I look at the way they play.

02:10They got a lot of criticism in recent years, but if you look at where they are now,

02:14I think they are already a big threat for the top three, top four positions,

02:21and they will be this.

02:22In the upcoming years, if they can continue bringing good players in

02:25and keeping this squad in place.