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What were the highlights of Liverpool's recent match against Marseille?
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Hello and welcome along to Thursday's Football Daily. I'm Phil Egan. Coming up today, Arnold Slott's question by Jamie Carragher about his style of play despite a 3-0 win away to Marseille. Newcastle go one step closer to qualifying for the next round in Europe. Evan Ferguson's back for Roma and Bohemians make another signing ahead of the new season. But first, Liverpool have put themselves in a strong position to finish in the Champions League top eight after a 3-0 win away to Marseille. A Dominic Sabasai free kick in the first half
How does Arne Slot assess Liverpool's luck in their performance?
Then a known goal from Geronimo Rulli and a Cody Gakbo strike proved to be the difference on the night. Boss Arne Slot says they had luck on their side for a change.
The moment we were having a big chance to score the 2-0 that hit the post or the bar. Ten seconds later they had a big chance and usually this season that ball goes in and we're all complaining. But now the ball went over and we extended our lead to 2-3-0 and the performance is still the same.
The win moved Liverpool up to fourth and a win in next week's final game at Hunter Carabag would ensure they avoid the playoffs and Slot says his players could do with the time off.
What did Jamie Carragher question about Arne Slot's style of play?
We're already seven, eight months into the season and I don't think Virgil has had more than three days off and it's the same for Ryan and it's the same for all these players. But they constantly show up, they constantly show mentality no matter how many setbacks we've had this season.
Slott was on the CBS Sports Champions League show after the game. Former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher was part of their coverage as always and he questioned some of the style of play from Slott's team this season.
I think we played a very good game. I don't know if Jamie saw it because I heard he was constantly on the phone with his mum, but I can tell him we played quite a good game today.
Arne, can I ask you about the set-up of the team tonight? Because over the last few months, you're trying to obviously... make the team get better, get better results, and you've played lots of different formations at different times. Can you just explain how it looked tonight? It looked like you had two wide strikers and a box midfield.
How is Newcastle preparing for their challenge against PSG?
Yeah, I find it hard to listen to you, Jamie, because you were the one that told me that I had to make sure we didn't concede that much, so I started to do that, and as a result of that, people were complaining that it became boring, so I'm not sure if I should listen to you. But because of some injuries we have, because of the players we have available and the style of play Masaya has, we thought it was a good idea to play with Mo and Hugo up front and to overload the midfield with players that are very good in between the lines. And I think you could see that today with full-backs that could attack down the side and Mackay and Ryan who could help out Joe and Virgil in build-up. So that worked, in my opinion, quite well today.
Arnie, you mentioned there about, obviously, at the moment, the criticism about the team is that it's a little bit slow, it's a little bit boring. At the start of the season, it was completely different. How difficult is that as a manager to sort of get that balance right? And also, if that is the criticism right now, about the team being a little bit slow, a bit pragmatic, how do you improve that? How can you work on that?
I watched Real Madrid-Barcelona for Dutch television and after 32 minutes when it was still 0-0 the commentator said that Barcelona played really slow and boring and that was because Madrid was constantly in a low block and it was really hard for Barcelona to play through. Ten minutes later it was 2-2 because of individual quality of Ravinha, Vinicius Junior and it said peace and then they went to the studio and the pundit said it's one of the best games we've ever seen. So goals in football are so important what people's opinions are. And I think we've shown this season that every time when it's a bit of a more open game, and that has mainly been in Europe and a few times in the Premier League as well, we are a very good team.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What were the highlights of Liverpool's recent match against Marseille?
0:00–0:51
2
How does Arne Slot assess Liverpool's luck in their performance?
0:51–1:24
3
What did Jamie Carragher question about Arne Slot's style of play?
1:24–2:14
4
How is Newcastle preparing for their challenge against PSG?
2:14–4:07
5
What challenges did Chelsea face in their recent game?
4:07–4:31
6
How is Liam Rosenior adapting to his role at Chelsea?
4:31–5:08
7
What is the significance of FIFA's relationship with Donald Trump?
5:08–6:29
8
How has Infantino's leadership affected FIFA's ethical standards?
6:29–16:57
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