- Slot: ‘First half not good enough, second half real good’
- Defeated Ipswich ‘climbing the mountain’, says McKenna
After Liverpool won his first Premier League game in charge, Saturday lunchtime’s 2-0 victory at Ipswich, Arne Slot saw no problem in namechecking Jürgen Klopp. “When I started here there were many things and one of them was that Jürgen hated 12.30pm kick-offs,” said the former Feyenoord manager. “And we showed we hate the 12.30pm kick-offs. The first half was not good enough, second half was a real good performance.”
Ipswich, back in the Premier League for the first time in 22 years, had been much the better team in the first 45 minutes. The second half was a rather different story, a far more aggressive Liverpool picking off the newly promoted team and scoring goals through Diogo Jota and Mohamed Salah.
Written by John Brewin at Portman Road
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/aug/17/liverpool-ipswich-arne-slot-1230-kickoff under the title “‘We showed we hate 12.30pm’: Slot makes light of Liverpool’s slow start against Ipswich”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
