Liverpool 2-1 Lille: Mohamed Salah nets his 50th Champions League goal as Reds cruise to victory against 10-man Lille
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Arne Slot could be used as a dictionary example for the definition of cool, calm and collected – but even he must have some moments where his achievements so far at Liverpool take him aback. Maybe it sinks in when he is sitting in his Aston Martin, stuck in the inevitable traffic on his commute home from training every day. Or maybe when he is cooped up in his office poring over clips of upcoming opponents.
Seven wins from seven and into the knockout stages of the Champions League without even a tiny blemish, top of the Premier League with just one defeat and still in both domestic cups. We will not discuss the ‘Q’ word just yet but soon it will become a hard conversation to avoid.
French side Lille, who played the last half hour with 10 men after Aissa Mandi was sent off, were the latest inmate to be welcomed to the so-called ‘Slot penitentiary’ after Mohamed Salah and Harvey Elliott goals helped keep up Liverpool’s perfect record in Europe under the Dutch boss.
That means they can heavily rotate in next week’s trip to Eindhoven to play PSV as they are already winners of the group stage of this new-look Champions League – the Swiss model system that fans, players and managers still seem unsure over whether they love or hate.
Liverpool supporters are definitely in the category of loving the new regime, mind. So far on their European ventures this season, they have toppled German champions Bayer Leverkusen, continental kings Real Madrid – plus a convincing win in the San Siro against Milan to boot.
