Liverpool will face Nottingham Forest again and Sloter says it will be difficult to get a good result

The 21st round of the 2024/25 Premier League will be staged, and Liverpool will travel to challenge Nottingham Forest. Slote said that Nottingham Forest is a strong team capable of competing with other teams, and it will be extremely difficult to achieve good results in this focus game.

With goals from Gakpo and Salah, Liverpool was tied 2-2 by Manchester United at Anfield in the last round of the league. After 3 wins and 2 draws in the last 5 rounds, Liverpool is currently ranked first in the standings with 46 points, 6 points ahead of second-placed Arsenal. In addition, in the 3rd round of the FA Cup earlier, Liverpool relied on Jota, Arnold, Jaden Dance and Chiesa to beat Accrington Stanley 4-0, which also gave the players confidence to deal with the Nottingham Forest game.

As for Nottingham Forest, Nuno's team defeated Wolves 3-0 in the last round of the league and achieved 6 consecutive victories. It is currently ranked third in the standings with 40 points and is also regarded as one of the dark horses of this season.

Liverpool manager Slot said at a press conference, "I have always said that the best time to evaluate the standings is after the halfway point of the season. The fact that they are at the top shows that they are definitely a team that can compete with us and other teams. If you look at the way they play and the results, they deserve it, and it will be a very difficult challenge to get a good result in this game."

“I expect the atmosphere at the City Ground to be very intense from the start, so we need to be careful not to let them take more initiative. They are a team that rarely concedes the ball and doesn’t take too many risks when building up their attack, so even if they concede the ball, they will have many players in defensive positions, even all 11 players.”

In terms of head-to-head record, Liverpool has achieved 3 wins and 2 losses in the last 5 matches against Nottingham Forest, but in the first round of this season, Liverpool lost to Nottingham Forest 0-1 at home.

Sloter also said, “They are a very hard-working team without the ball, but they can also keep the ball, and Chris Wood is a good example of this.”

"They scored a lot of goals and created a lot of danger on the counter-attack, but also showed quality in possession, and Nuno did a great job in adapting the style of play to the players."