Arne Slot tells his Liverpool players to be proud of ‘almost impossible’ club record start as Liverpool continue their stunning start to the season

Arne Slot told his Liverpool players they must be proud after achieving the “almost impossible” feat of setting a new club record in Wednesday’s 1-0 Champions League win away to RB Leipzig.

Darwin Nunez’s goal in the 27th minute was enough to win in Saxony. The victory made Liverpool the first team to win their first six away games of the season and the first to win 11 of their first 12 games in all competitions.

Just months after Slot took over, Liverpool are top of the Premier League with three Champions League wins.

“I think I’ve said before that we should be proud because so many great teams have worn this jersey, so many great players have played for this club,” Slot said.

Achieving something that hasn’t been achieved before is almost impossible at a club as big as this.

Arne Slot wants his players to be proud of the historic start to the campaign

Darwin Nunez’s first-half goal was enough to topple RB Leipzig on Wednesday evening

Liverpool have kept two clean sheets in their first three Champions League matches so far

“It’s always nice to achieve that, but like I said about other records, records are nice, but other things are nicer than records and you know what I mean – trophies.”

After Slot said his team were second best for much of Sunday’s 2-1 victory over Chelsea, Liverpool struggled in Leipzig with the hosts having a 2-0 lead in the first 25 minutes, a long shot. fell in love with Benjamin Sesko.

Lois Openda found the net in the 26th minute but was ruled offside, and a minute later Nunez put Liverpool ahead.

Still, they needed another offside flag to deny Openda again late in the match after Caoimhin Kelleher made great saves from Sesko and Xavi Simons.

“If you play a good team, a big team away, there are always moments in the game and they will have moments like that,” Slot said.

“Looking at the game, I think we dominated most of the game, as we did in every game except Chelsea. I’m not worried about this game at all.

“I was a little more worried after the Chelsea game, but that’s what I like to see: the team playing with a lot more possession, freeing up the midfield.”

Slot added: “Many, many times we played in front of their attack, opened up the midfield and went on an attack that led to the first goal, and there were more, more than a few opportunities.

Liverpool created several chances in the first half, including a powerful header from Nunez

Mo Salah looked disappointed to be replaced by Luis Diaz with just over 25 minutes remaining

– Ultimately, it’s a pity that you still need two central defenders to play such an important match and a goalkeeper to make two great saves. This match should have been ours after 60, 70 minutes and that’s why the last 20 minutes were so difficult for us.

With the match still in doubt, Slot took Mohamed Salah off just after the hour mark and replaced him with Luis Diaz. The Dutchman admitted that this decision was made with Sunday’s Premier League match against Arsenal in mind.

“We have some injuries, we have to take good care of the players,” Slot said. The players have played a lot and Mo is one of them. There’s an important match coming up on Sunday. I need to recruit as many players as possible for these difficult months.