Liverpool supervisor Arne Slot has challenged midfielder Curtis Jones so as to add consistency to his recreation as a result of “the very best gamers on the planet present up each three days”.
Jones has been in spectacular type not too long ago, scoring in a league win in opposition to Chelsea and offering an excellent go in establishing Luis Diaz for a purpose in Tuesday’s 4-0 win in opposition to Bayer Leverkusen within the Champions League.
He has once more been known as as much as the England squad for video games in November. The uncapped 23-year-old was drafted in as an harm alternative on the final England camp however withdrew due to the delivery of his daughter.
“With Curtis possibly it isn’t me who did it as a result of he turned a father and I had nothing to do with that,” mentioned Slot.
“You by no means know if that performs an element or not however, for the reason that second he turned a father, he began placing nice performances in.
“He did it in pre-season however then his performances dropped slightly bit. Since he turned a father, he is excellent once more. It might need to do a bit with that however, normally, I feel it has to do with how the group performs.”
In the summertime, Jones spoke about how Slot’s fashion of play suited him “as a result of I can get on the ball extra and be free” after the Dutchman changed Jurgen Klopp as Liverpool supervisor.
“He has a variety of high quality on the ball,” added Slot. “He is by no means afraid to do one thing particular with it. Generally that results in conditions when, in my view, he touched that ball a bit an excessive amount of as a result of typically he is a bit too over-confident.
“He combines this with an extremely laborious work-rate and we are able to belief him in defence. He is fairly full however for him now it is all about consistency. One of the best gamers on the planet present up each three days.”
Liverpool are prime of the Premier League desk, with a two-point lead over champions Manchester Metropolis going into Saturday’s recreation in opposition to Aston Villa and, after 4 wins in 4, are additionally prime of the Champions League group in its new format this season.
Slot has guided the Reds to 14 wins in his first 16 video games since changing Slot however insists no-one on the membership is getting carried away.
“We’re there to do our work and develop into higher gamers every day or preserve having the identical stage,” he mentioned.
“It isn’t the primary time that this membership is the place it’s for the time being. I feel for many of those gamers it’s a regular scenario and I do not assume they get carried away in any respect by us being prime of the league for the time being.
“They understand how small the margins are in relation to our outcomes and the quantity of factors we’re forward of the opposite groups.”
He added: “I am not attempting to handle expectations with the squad as a result of we do not speak about expectations.
“The one expectations I’ve is that they put the identical effort in every day. That is the one factor we give attention to.”
