Andy Robertson on Liverpool Schedule: “It’s Going to Be Intense”
After three games in three weeks to start the season things start to get busy in a hurry for Liverpool as club football resumes in September.
Liverpool have got off to a perfect start under new head coach Arne Slot, not just winning their first three Premier League games before the September international break but doing so in quite convincing fashion while outscoring their opponents seven goals to nil.
In sport, though, there’s risk of getting ahead of yourselves after a run of good results, and for Liverpool and the club’s fans will need to be careful not to take results and the positive momentum they’ve built up for granted when they host Nottingham Forest on Saturday.
“Continue the momentum that we started before the international break,” was fullback Andy Robertson’s straightforward response when asked what he and his teammates have to do now that they’re back from international duty and preparing for game four of the Slot era.
“I think the start of the season was very rare in that we were Saturday, Saturday, Sunday and there was a lot of time in between. We probably trained more than we’ve ever trained before, just because of the schedule, but now we go into something a bit more familiar.”
Forest can be a tough opponent, but realistically any result other that taking their record to a perfect 4-0 in the league on Saturday at Anfield will be seen as a disappointment. It’s following the weekend’s league game, though, when things start to really get tough.
A mid-week away day at AC Milan in the Champions League opener follows before Bournemouth in the League, West Ham in the League Cup, and Wolves, and two games a week continue into an October that includes domestic dates with Chelsea and Arsenal.
There will be less time to train between games. Less time to prepare for the specifics of an opponent. And, after lining up a largely unchanged squad for their first three games before the break, there will be far more need for rotation in the coming weeks and months.
“We’re going to need everyone, that’s a fact,” Robertson added. “We’re going to need the whole squad. The manager has gone with roughly the same starting XI in the first three games and I’m sure in the next seven games it will probably not be the same team.
“We will need everyone to chip in and be ready. It’s an intense period of time. It’s going to be intense from now until probably the end, that’s the way it is: you kind of have a slow start to the season and then it’s just bang, games after games [and] it stays like that until May.”
Source: liverpooloffside.sbnation.com
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