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Forest are Premier League title contenders, says Liverpool’s Slot

by Soccer-News

Arne Slot says high-flying Nottingham Forest “deserve” to be handled as Premier League title contenders as he prepares Liverpool for a difficult journey to the Metropolis Floor on Tuesday.

Third-placed Forest, chargeable for Liverpool’s solely league defeat of the season, can transfer simply three factors behind the title favourites in the event that they win a seventh straight league sport in midweek.

Forest completed simply exterior the relegation locations final season and their surge in direction of the highest of the desk is a giant shock.

However Slot, talking at his pre-match press convention on Monday, mentioned Nuno Espirito Santo’s crew have to be thought of as severe rivals.

“I’ve all the time mentioned which you could choose the desk greatest midway by the season, and that second is there now, so if Forest is up there with us, with Arsenal, Chelsea, (Manchester) Metropolis and all of the others, then they positively are a crew that is in competitors with us and with the opposite groups,” mentioned the Dutchman.

“They usually should be handled like this if you happen to take a look at the best way they play, if you happen to take a look at their outcomes. So it should be a really troublesome problem tomorrow to get a outcome.”

Forest, who haven’t conceded a purpose within the Premier League since mid-December, beat Liverpool 1-0 at Anfield in September, though Slot mentioned given their subsequent kind, the outcome was not the shock it appeared on the time.

The rise of Nuno’s crew has given the English high flight a retro look.

Forest, underneath then supervisor Brian Clough, challenged Liverpool’s dominance within the late Nineteen Seventies, successful the league title in 1978 after which succeeding them as European champions.

“That is been fairly a very long time in the past and now they’re all again at it,” mentioned Slot.

“They’re doing actually, actually good and Nuno is doing an unbelievable job. However if you happen to take a look at the amount of cash they’ve spent, it is not an entire shock that they do effectively this season.”

Slot himself has had a stellar first season at Anfield to date, successful 24 of 30 matches in all competitions, however he performed down the beginning he has loved since succeeding Jurgen Klopp.

“I’ve mentioned many instances if you happen to go right into a job you do not take into consideration the place we will likely be midway by a season on the subject of the place within the league desk,” he mentioned.

“What you do attempt to concentrate on loads is ‘Can we make the gamers actually match, can we make them work actually laborious and may we implement the enjoying type in the very best manner from the beginning?’.

“You by no means know what the opposite groups are going to do.”

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