Slot, Liverpool manager: “Chiesa is in difficulty because the Premier League is a much more intense championship than Serie A”

The difficulties of Church al Liverpool? They depend on the fact that “he arrived in a championship where the intensity is much higher than in Serie A. We have just met two Italian teams, so now I can say it with certainty”. Words of Arne SlotDutch coach of the Reds, who in the Champions League first faced the Milan at San Siro (result 1-3) and then the Bologna ad Anfield, battendolo 2-0.

Slot, who spoke before the Cup match against Leipzig, granted all the mitigating circumstances to the former Juventus player: “Federico missed the entire athletic training in the pre-season and, in a context in which continuously, it is difficult for him to take that step necessary to reach the levels of intensity of the rest of the team.” “I don’t know when he will reach the level of his teammates – said the former Feyenoord coach – but I understand his great disappointment when he comes on and continually comes out of them workouts. But he signed a long-term contract, so we’ll see what he gives us once he’s fit. At the moment, unfortunately, he has only been among the starters once or twice and no more.”

Chiesa’s statistics, Capello’s words

Chiesa has played 78 minutes so far in his first season at Liverpool: one in the Champions League, against Milan, eighteen in the Premier League and fifty-nine in the FA Cup. Slot’s words confirm the statements of Fabio Capello after the cup evening which saw Juventus and Bologna defeated, respectively by Stuttgart and Aston Villa, and Milan victorious, but with a thousand difficulties, against Bruges reduced to ten men: “Italian football – said the former coach of Milan, Roma and the English national team – is going too slowly. As soon as our teams find teams that run and press, they run into difficulty. Big ball possessions are useless in Europe.”