Arne Slot did not see Feyenoord play well: ‘But luck was forced’ | Premier League

When it comes to ‘luck’, Slot also likes to point to AZ’s goal. “They had a goal, but no shots on target in the whole game. That’s a bit unfortunate for us,” said the coach at ESPN. ,,Of course Pedersen’s goal is happy, because the ball is being deflected. But the ball was already close to 16. We did everything to win and forced the luck a little bit by playing football in their half.”

However, the game that Feyenoord played was ‘anything but good’ according to Slot. ,,Defensively it was good, but because AZ played a lot of long balls, not much was asked of them. Offensively we missed Kökcu in switching from left to right. As a result, the wingers did not come one against one.”

The first goal went according to plan. ,,We paid a lot of attention to crosses from the left to the far post. We knew we had a length advantage there.” Goal scorer Alireza Jahanbakhsh agrees that exactly this scenario was practiced in training. Slot puts this into perspective with a laugh: ,,If you train on many things, one will always work out well.

According to Slot, the fact that a difficult series has ended after the matches against PSV, Ajax, Twente and AZ is correct. But leaving Fortuna next week isn’t easy either. That was 1-1 in De Kuip. We don’t win easily, but we are in a very good position.”