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Arne Slot hails the Liverpool staff member who came up with corner routine for Mohamed Salah’s goal v Man City
There are countless reasons why Liverpool are favourites to win the Premier League title this season but one of the main factors behind their rousing success is the various ways in which they can score goals.
From killing teams on the break, carving low blocks up with a moment of magic to scoring innovative set-pieces like they did for Mohamed Salah’s opener against Manchester City, the list is truly endless.
Despite having enough in their locker to demolish teams in open play, Liverpool still worked on an intelligent corner routine for Salah’s goaꦉl that seemingly caught City by surprise.
Alexis Mac Allister passed the ball to Dominik Szoboszlai inside the box, who gave a first-time pass to the unmarked Reds legend in acres of space as he༺ struck the ball past Ederson Moraes.
The weight of Szoboszlai’s pass in particular was inch-perfect as Arne Slot would have been delighted that Liverpool’s training ground routine worked to ♒a teꦐe.
Last season, Manchester City also stunned Jurgen Klopp’s side at Anfield b🍃y scoring a similarly crafty corner tha🉐t was scored by John Stones in the 1-1 draw between both sides.
Arne Slot hails Aaron Briggs for Liverpool’s genius corner routine goal vs Manchester City
Liverpool took a page fr𒅌om Cꦚity’s book and punished them but the credit for set-pieces goes to the coaching staff put in place to work in such routines.
At Arsenal for example, Nicolas Jover is the mastermind beh𝓡ind their success from set-pieces.
Aaron Briggs seems to Liverpool’s answer to Jover, as a reporter noticed how he was congratulated after Salah’s goal as he asked Arne Slot via HaytersTV: “Just on that first goal, set-piece routine, really nice moment for Aaron Briggs, everyone congratulated him in the dugout, how much credit does he deserve for working on that set-piece and what impact has he had on working on set-piece🔯s this season?”
Slot lauded Briggs, saying: “He’s 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 and I always say it, people might not know it over here yet but if you go to Holland, people say, ‘Oh, there he is again about his set-pieces.’ But I always say, if you want to win a big game, you need to have a neutral balance in set-pieces or a positive one.”
Arne Slot went on to emphasise how key set-pieces are in big games, addi𓃲ng: “So, we go Villa away and they score and we don’t, it’s so hard to win against a Villa or a Chelsea or an Arsenal and today, it was the opposite that we scored from a set-piece and it♎ gives you such a boost for this game because at that moment of time, it wasn’t like we were dominating the game and it wasn’t expected that we could score at any second.”
“So, yeah, set-pieces are vital and we started with a new group of people this season. 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 wa𝐆sn’t immediate, it takes a bit of time and that’s what we are hoping in the upcom🐼ing 11 [games] as well.”
Liverpool’s set-piece mastermind worked at Man City for nine years
Aaron Briggs, wh🍸o is an individual development coach at Liverpool was brought in by Arne Slot when he joined the club last summer.
Briggs has worked at several top clubs suc🌠h as VfL Wolfsburg and AS Monaco.
But interestingly, Aaron Briggs worked in several r﷽oles for Manchester City for nine years, even being a first-team analyst for the senior team🎉.
As a 𒉰result, Briggs perhaps knew where City’s weaknesses lie when they defend set-pieces.
With Arne Slot considering𓂃 set-pieces extremely important, he must have consulted his advice.
Alan S⛦hearer predicts Liverpool will win the title and the goal that might have started 🍎t🐼o seal their fate might be Salah’s against Manchester City.