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Arne Slot says £36m Liverpool player has seriously impressed him in ‘every meeting’ and wants to ‘learn and listen’
One of the reasons why Liverpool are doing so well under manager Arne Slot is because of how good they are defensively.
Mohamed Salah is scoring goals regularly, but credit must also be given to the Liverpool def🏅ensive unit for keeping things tight⛄ at the back.
Slot’s side ha🍎ve conceded just six goals in 11 Premier League matches this season. In four UEFA Champions League matches, Liverpool have shipped in only one goal.
Virgil van Dijk is back to his best, and the♏re is another Liverpool defender who has stepped up his game this se⛎ason.
Arne Slot gives his verdict on Liverpool defender Ibrahima Konate
Ibrahima Konate did not start the season as the first-choice centre-back next to Van Dijk, but he has won oveܫr Slot and is now one of the first names on the teamsheet.
Martin Keown has been full of praise for Konate, and now Liverpool manager Slot has raved about the defender, noting that the 25-year-old centre-bac🌌k🌠 is always willing to learn and improve.
Slot told about Konate: “First of all, it’s always 🥃about the player and how much effort he puts in to stay fit, then it is technical and performance꧅ stuff but if the player doesn’t buy in it is almost impossible to keep him fit. A lot of players until now have done that.
“Konate didn’t play Ipswich and there was a reason for that, his pre-season games weren’t his best but he came back quite late and we were training▨ for a few weeks and Jarell had been playing🌠 well, so it was a logical decision.
“At half time [of Ipswich] I decide꧒d we needed Ibou. He played at Man United and he has bought into getting fit and every meeting with him, he was the one I could see he wanted to learn and listen and improve and that is what he did in my opinion. And that is why the improvement from pre-season to Ip﷽swich was massive.”
Ibrahima Konate’s Premier League stats this season
Kon♑ate star🌼red for France during the international break and has established himself as a regular in the Liverpool first team this se🔴ason.
The 25-year-old has scored one goal in four UEFA Champions League games. The defenderᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ has also found the back of the net once in 11 Premier League matches.
As per Sofascore, Konate has꧙ a pass accuracy of 91% in the Premier League this season. He has recovered an average of 2.9 balls per game and has made🃏 3.6 clearances per game.
Konate has also won 63% of his ground duels ꦑand has won 82% of his headers.