Arne Slot hints at Liverpool rotation for fatigue prevention

After six games as the new Liverpool head coach, the only loss for Arne Slot came against Nottingham. While he’s been focusing on making the most out of his squad, shuffling things around in this modern era becomes important.

With the Cup games and International break always around, keeping his players on full fitness becomes key. Slot has tried a few shuffles and substitutions tactically as well as to prevent fatigue. The way it looks right now if he keeps things going, Liverpool can be contenders in every competition.

Arne Slot will look to give all of the players some action

Arne Slot has a world class depth to choose from

Liverpool are currently second on the table a point behind Manchester City. Not only there’s consistency but the team quality also looks to be maintained. While looking in the post-game interview before West Ham, Slot explained how he would like to go around rotating the squad. Expressing his thoughts, the Dutchman said:

“Yeah, I want all of them to play – unfortunately that’s not possible because you can only name 11.

“But we will play with the best possible team and that can sometimes also mean that other players that have played a lot are maybe a bit more tired. So that means because the differences are so small, I will select different players for this game.”

Slot makes these statements keeping tactics and fatigue in mind. As he tries to put up the best eleven every game, managing minutes to keep the squad happy is always a challenge. There’s also a hint about rotating the squad according to opponents and their weak areas to exploit. Some provide threats aerially while others could be called technicians. Everyone has a role to play depending on the changing momentum in-game or the prior tactics.

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Liverpool will play West Ham United in the third round of the EFL Cup on Thursday. As we saw some changes in the lineup last time around against Bournemouth, we are always going to be kept wondering who starts today. With the depth, Slot has to choose from, whom to start and who’ll be benched could be a tough decision at times.

While the desire to let each player have game time could be true, the competition for each position is fierce, especially for the forward line which has some serious depth in the squad right now. From Darwin Nunez to Diogo Jota fighting for the number 9, the new signing Federico Chiesa is a competitor too now. Having a stellar mindset and bouncing back to gain a spot among the starters will be a healthy competition raising standards. These are some intriguing first few months of the new Liverpool era under the Arne Slot regime.