Slot on reaching first Liverpool cup final after Spurs win

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Slot on reaching first Liverpool cup final after Spurs win  06/02/2025  Anfield Stadium, Liverpool, UK

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00:00All Class 10s tomorrow?

00:02Yeah.

00:03Let's get through this one quick, then.

00:04Jürgen?

00:06Arnold, congratulations, finally the first time of asking none of the tail.

00:09Pleasant. Although if you know me a little bit,

00:14my thoughts are more on Sunday already than thinking about the final in a month.

00:20But our performance today was something that pleased me most,

00:24reaching a final should always be special, even for this club,

00:28because this club is used to playing finals,

00:31but still we are working very hard every single day to try to improve players,

00:36and the players want to improve themselves every single day.

00:38But we are also in this business to play finals,

00:42although we already know how difficult the final is going to be,

00:45because we faced Newcastle already, and they were very impressive yesterday as well.

00:50But many games to be played before that final, and this is where our focus should be.

00:55Just how impressive were your players this evening,

00:59given the control where you went about it, training, what it was like?

01:03Yeah, very impressive.

01:05I'm not saying anything strange that Tottenham is conceding goals,

01:14because they have so many injury problems,

01:16that's probably the main reason why they are conceding goals,

01:19but they are always able to score goals as well and create a lot.

01:23And for us to be so aggressive without the ball,

01:26that it took them 18 minutes before they had their first shot on target,

01:29doesn't tell you anything about Tottenham,

01:31that should tell you a lot about our work rate without the ball.

01:37I think that's what stood out for me, to play against a team that is so good at creating chances,

01:45not conceding hardly, only one shot, is in the end a good accomplishment.

01:58There was a moment after Kobe scored the first goal,

02:01the players were celebrating, and Virgil very quickly was urging them to get back to the centre circle.

02:07How important is that mentality and that relentlessness as well,

02:10as obviously the quality you've got to how successful you are?

02:14Yeah, I saw the same thing.

02:16I think there was a moment where you could see how we played for the whole game.

02:22It was so intense, the players were ready for it, the fans were ready for it,

02:25and we all simply wanted one thing, and that's going through to the final.

02:31And that mentality we showed from the first to the last second,

02:36but it was probably well shown in that moment as well.

02:39What honestly did you think of the recap when you came here today?

02:43The second domestic cup competition, it's 2-0 to 75,

02:47it's more games than currencies, is that something you registered or something you could have done without?

02:54No, definitely not gone without.

02:59It has been, most of the times, games where players that haven't played that much

03:06played a lot of minutes, and I think that has been important for us as well,

03:10because every time we need one of these players they are ready to play as well.

03:14And I think if you come to this country you know the history of the FA Cup and the League Cup,

03:22I know as well, I think I said the correct thing,

03:25that the FA Cup is a bit higher than the League Cup,

03:29but still it's a cup and a trophy to win, and it is the one we won last season.

03:34And I think if you win a trophy in the season before,

03:38you always have to take the challenge of trying to win it again.

03:43Hi, just a word on Kody Gatt, you get a lot of questions about Mo and his numbers of goals,

03:50Kody's up to 15 now this season, firstly, how well is he playing,

03:56but also, can he get to 25 or something like that?

04:00I have no clue, I'm not so much into how much goals they score,

04:05I know if they work as hard as they do and they bring the ball out of the back as well as they do,

04:09then we will always score goals because of the quality players we have,

04:13but these goals don't come from itself.

04:16If you look at the third goal, the effort Conor Bradley puts in as a full-back

04:21to sprint all over the pitch and then assist towards Dom,

04:25that is just as important as the one that scores goals,

04:29and I think it was Curtis, I think it was Mo, who crossed it in,

04:35who went for it, and that's why their full-back got a little bit of doubt

04:39and the ball falls down to Kody.

04:41And if it's Kody or Lucio or Diogo or Darwin or Mo or Federico,

04:47they can all score goals, but we have to make sure they come in those positions a lot.

04:52Therefore, you need to run a lot, and that's what they are all doing.

04:57Kody has a special season, but the second half of last season he was special.

05:00During the Euros he was special for Holland, so it doesn't come falling out of the sky.

05:07Is that English? It's something he did before.

05:12Chris?

05:14What does it mean to you to be stronger and better?

05:18What does it mean to you when you start to see you have that goal?

05:26For me there are two reasons why we become stronger.

05:29First of all, if you play more often together you know better what is expected,

05:36so the first time I tell them how to bring the ball out from the back

05:39against the 7-9-11 press, they were maybe like,

05:43OK, this should be done, but the more times you face them,

05:46the more it just becomes natural for you, so that helps.

05:51The more games you play, the more team meetings you have,

05:53the more training sessions you have,

05:55the better they know what we expect from them and what they have to expect from each other.

05:59Second of all, I believe in the fact that the more games you play,

06:03the stronger you become, the physically stronger you become.

06:06Some people think you get tired, but as long as you manage it well,

06:11I think players will get stronger by playing a lot of games instead of getting tired.

06:18See you in a moment? Yeah, see you tomorrow.

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