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Arne Slot has revealed who was behind Liverpool’s first goal in their Premier League win over Manchester City on Sunday.

Liverpool secured a massive 2-0 win over Pep Guardiola’s side on Sunday to move eleven points ahead of second-placed Arsenal, who dropped points on Saturday.

First-half goals from Mohamed Salah and Dominik Szoboszlai helped Liverpool secure the win, which extended the Reds’ unbeaten record in the league to 23 games.

After their disappointing draw with Aston Villa last time out, Liverpool showed that they meant business at the Etihad with the way they played on Sunday.

The Reds controlled key moments, showed the hunger of champions, and took their chances when they fell.

Their first real chance and goal of the game came from a set-piece situation.

The goal was a result of a well-executed training drill that saw Szoboszlai flick Alexis Mac Allister’s low corner towards Salah, who found the back of the net.

After the game, Slot was asked about the goal and how Liverpool came up with the idea.

What Arne Slot said

Speaking to Sky Sports after the match, Slot revealed that Liverpool’s first goal was a product of the work done by first-team individual development coach Aaron Briggs at the training ground.

Briggs spent nine years at Manchester City before leaving the club in 2020 to take roles at AS Monaco, FIFA, Wolfsburg and UEFA.

He joined Arne Slot‘s coaching team in the summer.

The 37-year-old is often one of the most vocal on the touchline at matches and leads several sessions at the AXA Training Centre, including set-pieces.

Asked about Salah’s goal and the credit that the coach should take for the set-piece, Slot said:

“He has done his work very, very, very well and you don’t always see the result of that during games because many times we were close to scoring.

“I always say people might not know it over here yet, but if you go to Holland, then people say, ‘There he is again about his set-pieces.’ But if you want to win a big game, then you need to have a neutral balance in set-pieces or a positive one.

So, if we go to Villa away and they score [from a set-piece] and we don’t, it is so hard to win against a Villa or a Chelsea or an Arsenal.

“And today it was the opposite: we scored from a set-piece and that gives you such a boost for this game because, at that moment of time, it wasn’t that we were dominating the game.

“It wasn’t expected that we could score at any second, so yeah, set-pieces are vital.

We started with a new group of people this season, and we need to give them a bit of time because I think – that’s also what you see at Arsenal when they started working it wasn’t immediate?

It takes a bit of time before you see the result – and that’s what we’re hoping for in the upcoming 11 [games] as well.”

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