131225 slot post liverpool 2-0 brighton.mp4

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Slot on Salah reconciliation after Liverpool's 2-0 Brighton win  13/12/2025  Anfield, Liverpool, UK

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00:00You said it was an easy decision to put Mo in the squad,

00:03but you thought it was the right decision to leave him out the other day.

00:07Can you explain what changed when you talked to him yesterday

00:11and in terms of how he played, did he succeed at work ethic he wanted?

00:16I think the reason why he wasn't in Milan was his interview.

00:20The question is always, and everybody has a different opinion about that,

00:24should he be once, twice, three times, four times, four months, 12 years?

00:29Every manager makes different decisions in that,

00:32but he wasn't involved in the game against Milan and I spoke to him yesterday.

00:37As I usually never say anything about where we talk about,

00:42I'm not going to make an exception now, but I think actions speak louder than what has been said.

00:47He was in the squad again and when I had to make my first substitution, I brought him in.

00:52And he performed as I think every fan, including me, would like him to perform today.

00:59I think he wasn't the only player who walked around the pitch thanking the fans,

01:15because the fans deserved a thank you from us.

01:19I think our players worked incredibly hard today to keep a clean sheet,

01:24and for the first time in weeks, maybe I should say months,

01:27we had a little bit of luck with that as well.

01:29Also a little bit of luck, I think we did a lot of things well,

01:32but we also had a little bit of luck.

01:34We've had games where we not conceded a chance, but conceded three goals.

01:38But today we definitely did concede chances, but they didn't go in.

01:43Mo is going to go to the AFCOM now, I hope he's going to do very well.

01:51And in the meantime we have to play here without him,

01:54with not that many players available at the moment.

01:57But the good thing is we play Saturday and then a week in between,

02:00and then again Saturday, so yeah, that's the situation.

02:06Johnny?

02:07After that, would you hope that Mo comes back

02:10and you haven't played with him after again?

02:13I haven't played.

02:15Would your hope be that Mo comes back after AFCOM

02:18and you have that performance for him again?

02:21Yeah, I think he's a Liverpool player and the moment he's there

02:27I like to use him when we need him.

02:30Today he didn't start as he did a few times before,

02:35but in the one-and-a-half season before he started every game.

02:40Today when he came in, like I just said,

02:44he had a performance like you would want him to give.

02:48He was close to another assist.

02:50I think he was shocked to see Virgil next to him in that long sprint.

02:56He was close to scoring when Fede almost assisted to him,

03:00but he was a threat and that's very important

03:04because if you play with attackers you're hoping that they are a threat.

03:09To the other team, is that the way you say it?

03:13Yeah, and Hugo was that as well and Florian was that also.

03:16I know you're not reviewing the details of your conversation yesterday,

03:20but is that it now?

03:22Are you satisfied that issues are resolved?

03:24Or is there still stuff to resolve over the next one?

03:27No, for me there's no issue to resolve.

03:31For me it's now the same as any other player.

03:34You talk to your players if you're happy or unhappy with things,

03:38but there's nothing for me to talk about after what happened against Leeds after the game.

03:48So, Arne, although the Brighton did create chances,

03:54were you more happy in general about performance in terms of being a bit more solid and being a bit more...?

04:02Yeah, that's funny, eh?

04:04This is what people now say, if you won 2-0 then all of a sudden we were solid,

04:07but we conceded so much, I think we conceded in one game more than we did in the last four games.

04:13But now all of a sudden it's solid because we won the game,

04:17and when we had a draw conceding in the last minute against Leeds,

04:21I assume that people weren't as positive as after this game.

04:25But we had a lot of chances as well,

04:30we played, in my opinion, we are starting to play better and better on the ball as well,

04:36and from the last five games we played we kept three clean sheets,

04:41and that is something to build on,

04:44especially after conceding four against PSV and three against Nottingham Forest.

04:49Can you just ask about Hugo?

04:51I've seen another two runs today,

04:53you've had a recipe for the start that he has made over the last few months,

04:57and also was it just sort of tiredness that he was going up with?

05:00Yeah, I think just before I took him off there was a moment,

05:06I don't know what happened, but I think he hardly couldn't walk anymore because of cramp.

05:11So what I see with him, and I see this with all the players we brought in this summer,

05:18they had to adapt to the Premier League to that intensity,

05:20some of them had because they were all young,

05:22all the players we brought in are young players, except for Alex maybe,

05:25but all the others are very young.

05:27So adapting to the Premier League of that intensity,

05:29some of them had not to adapt to the Premier League but to the Premier League and Champions League,

05:34and I see all of them making progress in that.

05:39So Hugo had cramp today, but I can assure you that he did probably twice as much

05:45as in games in the beginning of the season where I had to take him off with cramp as well.

05:49And that is what this league brings.

05:52If you cannot be so intense for such a long time, it's so hard to win a game of football,

06:00because the best players, athletes in the world play in this league,

06:05and we are trying to prepare them more and more, better and better for that,

06:10and I can see that progress with most of our signings,

06:13I think almost all of them, maybe all of them.

06:19You told me that you wouldn't ask a question, so...

06:26And now all of a sudden you want, did your boss text you?

06:29You have to ask a question.

06:31I haven't listened to your question, that joke was inside my head before you asked it.

06:36Tell it, ask it one more time.

06:38I just wanted to check, has Mo indicated to you that he wants to stay now as well?

06:42I think you already know the answer to that.

06:45What has been said between the two of us in that conversation stays between us,

06:51and I think what you see is what you get to know,

06:54and that it was in the squad in my first substitution,

06:57and all the other things that have been said in that conversation.

07:01I never speak about when I speak to Virgil or Mo or any other player,

07:06I never told you guys what we talk about.

07:10All done, thank you.

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