Set-pieces are back to normal, insists Slot

LIVERPOOL head coach Arne Slot believes their set-pieces have gone "back to normal" after recent successes.

- By CARL MARKHAM Sports Reporter

Arne Slot at the AXA Training in Kirkby this week

(NIKKI DYER/LFC)

The number of goals conceded compared to those scored has been an issue for Slot all season, to the extent Aaron Briggs - the individual development coach who was pushed into the role at the start of the campaign - was sacked in late December due to the continued underperformance.

Since then things have improved markedly but Slot said that was not a reflection on Briggs.

In the first 26 matches of the season Liverpool conceded from 13 set-pieces and scored from eight but in their last 12 games since Briggs' departure they have conceded from two and scored from eight.