Arne Slot shares Man City's relief while the Liverpool boss talks with Jurgen Klopp

Arne Slot expressed her relief that Manchester City is not the formidable force that he was last season when the race for the title of Liverpool in the Premier League enters the crucial phase.

By thinking back to last season, Slot noted that Liverpool had at one point five points ahead of City before the champions lost only six points in their 17 games following to win their fourth consecutive title in the Premier League.

Today, while City is 12 points behind and played one more match, Slot finds a certain comfort, especially after the recent renewal of City with a 6-0 demolition of Ipswich Town and a defeat 3-1 of Chelsea.

“It's hard to compare the seasons because maybe the essential is that we don't even need to look at us, let's look at City,” said Slot.

“City was five points behind Liverpool and they were incredible in the second half of the season. I am therefore happy that there are not five points between us and City after having seen them against Ipswich last week .

“I said it several times, I inherited a very good and strong team. It was not like last season. [that] They never won a match! “

Slot took a proactive measure with discussions with Jurgen Klopp to prevent their candidacy for the title of Premier League to collapse in the coming weeks.

After the five -point lead in Liverpool at the top after beating Chelsea on January 31 a year ago, they failed to finish third, at nine points from the Champion Manchester City. Slot asked for Klopp's opinion on the economic slowdown.

He said: “Even the first or second time I spoke with Jurgen, we talked about it. What was his opinion, why may they drop a little at the end?

“But I think we cannot compare last season with this season, even if there may be certain things that we are already trying to implement.

“You will now ask me what it is, but I'm not going to answer you!” The injuries ravaged the Liverpool end-of-season campaign, stretching key players like Alisson, Andy Robertson, Ibrahima Konate, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Dominik Szoboszlai, Ryan Gravenberch, Diogo Jota and Mohamed Salah.

Slot, however, was more likely with injuries, benefiting from an almost complete availability of the team. “I said this season that each point we had, we deserve it,” he said.

“If it was also the case last season, with five points ahead, it's still disappointing. But if in the first half of the season, they may have been a little luck, then he n It is not surprising that in the second half of the season, they had a little luck.

“We must not have injuries and all these kinds of things. All the players are important, but there are some who may be a little more than others, so there is a lot to play . “