Alisson urges team-mates to 'create own history'

Goalkeeper Alisson has urged his Liverpool team-mates to "create our ain history" arsenic they pursuit the Premier League rubric successful their archetypal play nether manager Arne Slot.

Slot's Reds are six points wide astatine the apical of the array with a crippled successful manus implicit second-placed Arsenal.

Brazil planetary Allison was portion of the Liverpool squad that won the Premier League rubric nether erstwhile manager Jurgen Klopp successful 2019-20, ending the club's 30-year hold for a top-flight crown.

"That squad was truly special," Alisson said. "We achieved large things. It was the archetypal Premier League rubric successful a long, agelong time.

"We achieved [won] the Champions League unneurotic arsenic good the play before.

"There is nary examination with some situations.

"What makes maine blessed is this radical of players - we person the prime to bash thing special. The astir important happening is the committedness that is needed to triumph thing is there."

Alisson is 1 of the 9 players who has featured for Liverpool this play who besides played successful the 2019-20 campaign.

The others are chap goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher, defenders Trent Alexander-Arnold, Virgil van Dijk, Joe Gomez and Andrew Robertson, midfielders Harvey Elliott and Curtis Jones, and guardant Mohamed Salah.

Changes person travel with additions specified arsenic Ryan Gravenberch, Dominik Szoboszlai and Alexis Mac Allister successful midfield, and Luis Diaz, Darwin Nunez and Cody Gakpo successful attack.

Dutchman Slot, who joined from Feyenoord successful the summer, has besides implemented a much measured tactical approach.

"I don't deliberation it is excessively akin [to our benignant nether Klopp]," Alisson said.

"A fewer players inactive play successful the squad but we person a small spot [of a] antithetic style, much shot possession. Before it is was truly straightforward, a batch of transition, a batch of intensity."

Liverpool won their league rubric nether Klopp by holding a pb passim overmuch of the campaign, but successful the play earlier they saw a 10-point pb overhauled by Manchester City.

Slot's broadside question to West Ham connected Sunday knowing they tin again widen their existent advantage.

"We don't person to comparison ourselves with the teams successful the past," Alisson said.

"We person to make our ain past this season, this group."