How Arne Slot built Liverpool's new Fab Three: A bromance, a tactical shift and better numbers than the 2020 frontline
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Pep Guardiola once said: ‘Those three for Liverpool are good… they scare me, they are so dangerous.’. The Manchester City manager, on the way to a record-breaking 100-point Premier League season in 2018, was pacing up and down a near-empty dressing room chatting to his analyst Carles Planchart and right-hand man Domenec Torrent. It felt like a therapy session.
![[The trio are heading for vastly better numbers than the famous Fab Three achieved in 2019-20]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/31/00/93603375-14237485-image-m-32_1735606098546.jpg)
We have become accustomed to Guardiola’s nervous tics in the last few months and — albeit he has never been a calm soul — the best coach of his generation was shown quaking in his boots ahead of a meeting with Liverpool in that season. He had reason to scratch his head and lose sleep. City were torn apart by Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane as Liverpool thrashed them 5-1 on aggregate in the Champions League quarter-finals.
![[They cannot be considered as good as Salah, Roberto Firmino, and Sadio Mane yet, but they are on course to emulate them]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/31/00/93603323-14237485-image-a-33_1735606127846.jpg)
Good things come in threes and, for many Liverpool fans, no trio will ever topple the attacking triumvirate that conquered all for several years to fire the Reds to a sixth European Cup and the club’s first English league title for 30 years. There was the relentless scoring, the spellbinding link-up play, the choreographed dance routines to celebrate goals in front of the Kop. The good old days for many younger fans. If one had a bad afternoon, the others would step up and push Jurgen Klopp’s side to victory.
![[Arne Slot is getting more out of Diaz and Gakpo - and switching their places has worked a treat]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/31/00/93603395-14237485-image-m-35_1735606202469.jpg)
