“Every Day Is A Good Day…” – Liverpool Legend Backs Reds To Win League In April | OneFootball

By Leah Bower

If anyone had said a year ago we would be going back to Wembley to retain the Carabao Cup, top of the Premier League and Champions League and still be in the FA Cup under a manager that wasn’t Klopp, they’d have needed to get their heads checked. Yet here we are, beating Spurs in the semi-final without breaking a sweat, 6 points clear in the Prem and through to the Champions League last 16 under the new Arne Slot era.

Slot has made the hardest job in the world look simple. Yes – he inherited Klopp’s world-class players, but he’s evolved this team into a secure and stable system, rather than the heavy metal football we all grew to love.

Dan Clubbe spoke to Reds Legend, Mark Lawrenson, about Slot’s impact so far at the club, and also how important Van Dijk has been for this success.

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On Slot taking over from Klopp: “He’s been believable, hasn’t he? I think the best thing is, he’s really not touched too many things.

“He must have got the job, got in the office and started watching all the videos and stuff from last season and thought, oh my God, how good are these boys? And do you know what? He’s kept everybody happy.

“He’s given them as much game time as possible. Obviously, he’s always going to have his normal first 11, as it were, and nothing’s a problem to him.

“You see him completely different to Jürgen, obviously, on the side of the pitch and everything. But he’s calm and everything and well done to him.

“Not really lost it on the touchline, but that was obviously Jürgen’s particular party piece.

“You know, his Mrs must say, ‘Did you have a good day today?’ I mean, every day is a good day when you’re currently the manager of Liverpool.”

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On our title chances: “I think we’ll win the league by the end of April.

“Well, just look at all the teams. Arsenal, are they going to catch us? Don’t think so, they can’t score. They’re difficult to play against. But I think we’re head and shoulders.

“I would never normally say that, because you know Van Dijk might get injured and we’re going to struggle and all those kind of things.

“I think it’s a bit of a payback for when we won when it was COVID. I think there’s something in the air.”

On Virgil Van Dijk: “Oh, he’s brilliant. Would he get in the best team ever? Yeah. Alongside me and Hansen, obviously.

“There’s no doubt; forget about his ability and leadership. You can just see off the pitch with the kids as well, the young ones, he’ll be your arm around them and all those kind of things. He’s in the right place, the right time.

“Fantastic footballer.

“He doesn’t go to ground or very, very, very, very rarely does, and comes off the pitch at the end of the match and there’s not a spot on him.

“He sees the picture so very, very easily. And the fact that he can play with all those players

“You wouldn’t want to play against Virgil, would you? Better looking, the whole kind of thing, and to still be the top player that he is, but also defensively still be very, very good is a big plus for him.”

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On defences winning titles: “Sometimes the strikers don’t really look like they’re going to score, but in the proper teams, even if you don’t play particularly well, you will get chances.

“But if you say that to the strikers, they go, ‘yeah, yeah, of course’. You tell Rushy, that he’ll go, ‘Oh yeah, yeah, yeah’, and Kenny.

“You will get chances, obviously, which in terms of the defence, they’ll have made for you by not conceding, and it’s a massive thing.”

Slot’s success is nothing without the foundation Jürgen built before him, but wow has this surpassed all belief. He still faces the same problem that plagued Klopp for all those years which Lawro touched on – if we get a big injury, we are at a huge risk of losing it all this season.

He may be the polar opposite of Klopp in his touchline antics and his game tactics, but the only similarity the Reds needed is a serial winner, which we seem to have in abundance.