Liverpool boss Arne Slot has a cheeky dig at Manchester United's title hopes and believes Luis Diaz will always show his quality ahead of their clash with Wolves
Melwood, Liverpool, UK
Melwood, Liverpool, UK
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00:00I know you've spoken generally about the depth of the forward line,
00:03can I just ask about Luis Diaz, he's had five goals this season already,
00:07and I think that's probably an area that's improved personally since last season,
00:12where he was getting in additions but not getting the goals.
00:16What's changed with him, do you think?
00:19That's difficult for me to judge because I wasn't here last season.
00:23It's still a small sample size where we are talking about,
00:27and I said before also when it comes to us winning quite a lot of games,
00:33that till now we've faced almost all the teams we've faced
00:37on the bottom league of the table, where of course we expect United
00:42to be on top of the table in the end of the season.
00:49So there's still a lot for us to prove,
00:52maybe the fixture list helped us by this amount of goals the forward scored,
00:55and let's see if we can keep scoring so many goals if the fixture list is getting harder and harder,
01:01starting tomorrow in a difficult away game against Wolves.
01:04Have you done anything specific with him in terms of improving his outputs?
01:09No, I don't think so, not particularly with him.
01:12We train on a daily basis, trying to get them as much as we can in certain situations,
01:17and then help them in the best possible way where to position themselves
01:20and what to do in certain situations.
01:26But it's mainly also in this last period of the pitch,
01:31the quality of the player and the finishing he has, and I think he always had this.
01:36And I wasn't even that aware of the fact that he...
01:38How many goals did he score last season?
01:41Eight.
01:42Eight, OK. For me he was someone who could score a goal,
01:45and eight is for his quality, not of his standards, I would say.
01:49Did he play a lot? Did he play every game?
01:51OK. Then I think he just comes back to his normal situation.
01:58Maybe he was a bit unlucky last season,
02:00but a player of his quality will always score a lot of goals in every season.