Liverpool's new manager Arne Slot showed his eye for mid-game tweaks with a successful half-time swap that helped bypass Ipswich’s press
The club’s new manager showed his eye for mid-game tweaks with a half-time swap that helped bypass Ipswich’s press
Replacing a figure like Jürgen Klopp is tough. Any manager who is at a club for nine years leaves a void when they depart, and all the more so when they are as charismatic and successful as the German. Nobody can say after the weekend that Slot is definitely going to be a success. But what was apparent was how, after a difficult start, he transformed the game with his tweaks at half-time – and, because he comes from the candid school of Dutch football, he was quite happy to explain exactly what he’d done.
At that point, the temptation was to look at Liverpool and see a side looking a little flat, in need some sort of inspiration. If it had stayed like that there’d have been a lot of talk about the post-Klopp hangover and questions about the lack of transfer activity this season after the arrival of Michael Edwards as chief executive of football and Richard Hughes as sporting director. But it didn’t, and for that Slot deserves credit.
There was a clear effort in the second half to get Mohamed Salah into positions where he was running one-on-one against the Ipswich left-back Leif Davis. The most obvious, perhaps, was the opening goal, which started with Andy Robertson in the left-back position.
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