The club’s new manager showed his eye for in-game adjustments with a half-time swap that helped his side carve open Ipswich
The club’s new manager showed his eye for mid-game tweaks with a half-time swap that helped bypass Ipswich’s pressCity and Arsenal will both recognise improvements that need to be made, while City perhaps will feel some satisfaction that they failed to beat Chelsea in either league game in the last campaign and are therefore already up on the standards they set last season. But it’s probably Liverpool’s win that feels most significant.is tough.
At that point, the temptation was to look at Liverpool and see a side looking a little flat, in need some sort of inspiration. If it had stayed like that there’d have been a lot of talk about the post-Klopp hangover and questions about theafter the arrival of Michael Edwards as chief executive of football and Richard Hughes as sporting director. But it didn’t, and for that Slot deserves credit.
There was a clear effort in the second half to get Mohamed Salah into positions where he was running one-on-one against the Ipswich left-back Leif Davis. The most obvious, perhaps, was the opening goal, which started with Andy Robertson in the left-back position. Ipswich’s press went to that side of the field to try to pin him in, at which the ball was switched quickly through Alisson to Konaté.
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