FC Liverpool is on a unique track of success. At the beginning of the season, the club probably only believed that the greatest optimists.
Arne Slot started an impossible place. After Jürgen Klopp announced in spring 2024 that he would leave Liverpool FC after nine years, Slot quickly emerged as the Klopp successor. But many wondered: who? Until then, the Dutch had worked at Feyenoord Rotterdam and made it aware of it. But how should he do the such successful Klopp dynasty?
The skepticism of Arne Slot was greater than his chances of success. But only. Because after less than a year it is clear: he did what very few had believed. Slot is successful and really. Trainer legend Louis van Gaal had already predicted this. Last summer of Sky asked about the new Liverpool coach, said van Gaal: ” A very good choice. ”
From the beginning, Slot did not even try to imitate Klopp or replace it one to one. He knew: that won’t lead to success. Slot is a tactic fox, stabilized the defensive and let his best player be the best player again: and Mohamed Salah delivered and plays as big as it has not. Despite the open contract issues and whether he will really leave Liverpool at the end of the season after eight years.
If it continues, FC Liverpool could probably put on the Premier League crown at Easter. The lead for second place, FC Arsenal, is now 13 points. Arsenal has played a game less, but even if Arsenal should win the catch -up game, it would be ten points ahead. Liverpool has lost only one season game so far, on the fourth matchday against Nottingham Forest (0: 1). And in the Champions League? There, too, the Reds has only lost one of nine games (2: 3 against PSV Eindhoven), all others have won them. Below the first leg of the round of 16 against Paris St. Germain (1-0).
Liverpool in the final against Newcastle United is located in the League Cup in mid -March. So far there was actually only one flaw throughout the season: In the FA-Cup, a team from the second English league was already over in the fourth round against Plymouth Argyle (0: 1). Arne Slot had given many young forces a chance and his regular players in this game – although so common, it took revenge in the end. The BBC then wrote: “Don’t put on with the FA Cup-Plymouth gives slot a lesson.”
In any case, the fans have already hit Slots side, celebrate their trainer as they did in the best Klopp times. They even created their own song for him. How special the connection to the fans was, Slot was already clear at the beginning of his term: “Clubs like Feyenoord and Liverpool mean a lot to fans. It was not a difficult decision to get here. It was a way and I had to use it.” And then he said something that reverberated and from which one can say months later that he had a say. “I will do everything in my power to lead the team in the best possible way and to lead to success.”