Arne Slot says that the Liverpool Champions League match at PSV Eindhoven has “no importance” for them.
Slot, whose team is at the top of the ranking and until the last 16 after seven victories of seven so far, has appointed a young team on Wednesday for the match in the Netherlands.
Mohamed Salah, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Virgil Van Dijk did not trace with the team, with Alisson Becker, Ibrahima Konate, Ryan Gravenberch, Alexis Mac Allister, Dominik Szoboszlai, Luis Diaz also absent.
Instead, Caoimhin Kelleher, Conor Bradley, Jarell Quansah, Tyler Morton, Wataru Endo and Harvey Elliott will have the chance to impress.
“All those who are left could have played tomorrow,” said the location, “but in the long term, if you look back our season, it was almost each time after three or four or five weeks, we have them Given the break during the week there was a league cup or a FA cup [game]If there was a moment for them to recover freshness, we have always done so.
“It took me a while to understand this new [Champions League] format.
“I always say when I think I’m 100% sure, I use ’99 .9 ‘but now I can say that I am 100% sure that it does not matter at all if we finish a or two [in the table] Because we will play 14, 15, 16, 17, then at the end, it’s a draw [for] Which teams we will face.
“So, it’s a game for us – because we are now n ° 1 or n ° 2, we cannot go to No. 3 – which has no importance at the League table.
“But a very wise man told me one day:” I have never seen anything well coming from losing a football match “so we do not enter the match tomorrow by trying to lose the match, we will do Everything we can try to win of course.
Arne Slot insisted that we do everything to win at the PSV, because he explained the justification to appoint a team turned for tomorrow #Ucl link ⤵️
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Liverpool is fighting on four fronts this season and Slot said he made the decision to give his key stars to rest their workload during the charged calendar.
He added: “I look at the group management process in the long term. It will be strange if the group has the same level as the other games.
“When they play in the League Cup, they could beat Southampton and Brighton. It was not that simple but we won. Cody Gakpo, I decided to bring it for example. I think of certain feelings, but he did not play against Lille last week. »»
