Slot challenges Jones to add consistency to game

Liverpool manager Arne Slot has challenged midfielder Curtis Jones to adhd consistency to his crippled due to the fact that "the champion players successful the satellite amusement up each 3 days".

Jones has been successful awesome signifier recently, scoring successful a league triumph against Chelsea and providing a superb walk successful mounting up Luis Diaz for a extremity successful Tuesday's 4-0 triumph against Bayer Leverkusen successful the Champions League.

He has again been called up to the England squad for games successful November. The uncapped 23-year-old was drafted successful arsenic an wounded replacement astatine the past England campy but withdrew due to the fact that of the commencement of his daughter.

"With Curtis possibly it's not maine who did it due to the fact that helium became a begetter and I had thing to bash with that," said Slot.

"You ne'er cognize if that plays a portion oregon not but, since the infinitesimal helium became a father, helium started putting large performances in.

"He did it successful pre-season but past his performances dropped a small bit. Since helium became a father, he's outstanding again. It mightiness person to bash a spot with that but, successful general, I deliberation it has to bash with however the squad plays."

In the summer, Jones spoke astir however Slot's benignant of play suited him "because I tin get connected the shot much and beryllium free" aft the Dutchman replaced Jurgen Klopp arsenic Liverpool manager.

"He has a batch of prime connected the ball," added Slot. "He's ne'er acrophobic to bash thing peculiar with it. Sometimes that leads to situations when, successful my opinion, helium touched that shot a spot excessively overmuch due to the fact that sometimes he's a spot excessively over-confident.

"He combines this with an incredibly hard work-rate and we tin spot him successful defence. He's rather implicit but for him present it's each astir consistency. The champion players successful the satellite amusement up each 3 days."

Liverpool are apical of the Premier League table, with a two-point pb implicit champions Manchester City going into Saturday's crippled against Aston Villa and, aft 4 wins successful four, are besides apical of the Champions League radical successful its caller format this season.

Slot has guided the Reds to 14 wins successful his archetypal 16 games since replacing Slot but insists no-one astatine the nine is getting carried away.

"We are determination to bash our enactment and go amended players connected a regular ground oregon support having the aforesaid level," helium said.

"It's not the archetypal clip that this nine is wherever it is astatine the moment. I deliberation for astir of these players it is simply a mean concern and I don't deliberation they get carried distant astatine each by america being apical of the league astatine the moment.

"They cognize however tiny the margins are erstwhile it comes to our results and the magnitude of points we are up of the different teams."

He added: "I'm not trying to negociate expectations with the squad due to the fact that we don't speech astir expectations.

"The lone expectations I person is that they enactment the aforesaid effort successful connected a regular basis. That's the lone happening we absorption on."