Arne Slot explains how his Liverpool side will differ to Jurgen Klopp's

Liverpool head coach Arne Slot believes there will be similarities between how his team plays to Jurgen Klopp's sides of the recent past, but admitted his ideal XI will be more patient in possession.

Klopp's nine-year reign as Reds manager came to an end in May, ending one of the most memorable chapters in the club's history.

His replacement, Slot, will take charge of his first competitive Liverpool match this weekend when they travel to newly promoted Ipswich Town in the Premier League.

Ahead of that encounter, Slot sat down with Canal+ and explained how his style differs to Klopp's.

"Style of play has been with my teams where I worked, I think, always the same," he said. "There are a lot of similarities with Jurgen Klopp, with the way they played in the past, and I'm hoping we will see these similarities in the upcoming weeks and months.

"We like to have the ball, we don't like the other team to have the ball… but the Premier League is a league where many good clubs are and many clubs want to have the ball, so we have to fight really hard for us to have the ball.

"And if we have it, we want to score, we want to be intense in everything we do. If we have the ball, we want to score - that's quite simple of course! We want to be intense in everything we do.

"Maybe the only slight difference there is that after we win the ball, I like to go forward just as Jurgen liked it, but I sometimes like it when players try to keep the ball and not play the difficult ball, where Jurgen or the former regime maybe liked the chaotic scenes in and around the 16 a lot as well. They were really, really, really successful with that for so many years.

"But it sometimes also depends a bit on the players you have. I think we're trying to find the balance between trying to create chaos at certain moments and trying to keep possession of the ball a bit longer in other moments."

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