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Arne Slot on Liverpool's difficult run of form

Arne Slot has warned Arsenal that Liverpool will not be easing off in their pursuit of the Premier League title, despite holding a significant advantage.

But Mikel Arteta and his players know that they will need to be perfect in their remaining matches, and benefit from a Liverpool implosion, if they are to reel them in.

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Liverpool have been the frontrunners all season under Slot’s management and now have just one sole focus, having lost the Carabao Cup final against Newcastle and been dumped out of the Champions League by Paris Saint-Germain and the FA Cup by Plymouth.



They are now full steam ahead towards winning their first Premier League title since 2019/20.

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"The situation that we are in is the kind that we would all have wanted when our campaign began at Ipswich Town back in August, so now we must make the most of it,” Slot swrites in his programme notes for the clash with Everton.

“This means remaining focused on ourselves and our own results, not becoming distracted by anything else and reaching the standards that we know will be required in each and every game that we play.

"I said before the break that it was a big positive that our advantage at the top of the table had increased but at the same time we are all aware that these kind of leads are always likely to fluctuate, particularly in a league which is as competitive as the Premier League.”

Slot has insisted that the ongoing speculation surrounding star players Trent Alexander-Arnold, Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk is not providing a distraction to the players.

All three are out of contract at the end of June and rumours of Alexander-Arnold moving to Real Madrid and Salah to Saudi Arabia will not go away.

Arne Slot says Liverpool are fully focused on the title(Image: Andrew Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images)

However, the current focus is on Everton, who earned a 2-2 draw in the reverse fixture back in February thanks to James Tarkowski’s dramatic injury-time goal.

There can be no looking ahead and definitely no looking back, the only thing that matters is the here and now.”

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