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Liverpool boss Arne Slot on the challenges of a Premier League clash with Aston Villa
AXA Training Centre, Liverpool, UK
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00:00Obviously against Chelsea we saw a reaction, we know you were disappointed at the final whistle as well,
00:05so how would you sum up the mood around the club going into these remaining two games?
00:10Yeah, we wanted to win because we knew that if we would have won that game
00:16we would have qualified for Champions League.
00:19But we tried till the last second everything to win that game,
00:24where in the second half people could see that probably a bit more
00:27because we were more on the front foot, more on their half than we were in large parts of the
00:31first half.
00:33But in the end, as so many times this season, the crossbar and the post were in between us drawing
00:40or winning a game,
00:42and as a result we had a draw, which is not the result we wanted,
00:47but it's still a point where one week earlier we were heading towards a point or maybe towards a win
00:52and in the end lost it.
00:55So we take that point and we go to Villa, which has been a very good team this season,
01:01and now we have to try to win over there.
01:07And in terms of Villa, they've got a very congested running or they've had a very congested running as well,
01:12similar to what Jasper should have wanted to have had at this stage of the season.
01:17Can you take advantage of that, that hopefully their eyes might not be completely false,
01:22or they'll be tired, or how does it work?
01:26No, they played Sunday I think, so now we play on Friday, so I don't see being tired as a
01:34reason.
01:34I think one of the reasons why they are in the final of the Europa League and doing so well
01:39in the Premier League
01:40is because they have a big squad with many, many, many very good players,
01:44and a lot of players that are of the same level, same high level.
01:50If you don't have that, you're not able to go all the way to the final in the Europa League
01:55and do so well in the Premier League.
01:58And the good thing for them is that at the moment they have one or two injuries,
02:03but not so many, so I think they are completely ready to go into Friday,
02:09to go into Wednesday and then go into Sunday.
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