Kostas Tsimikas has said Liverpool are targeting a clean sweep of trophies under Arne Slot after last season’s FA Cup defeat at Manchester United “destroyed everything”. Liverpool continued the outstanding run under their new head coach with a Champions League victory at Leipzig on Wednesday, establishing a club record of 11 wins from the opening 12 matches of a season.
On Sunday is a visit to Arsenal, when they would open a seven-point gap over their hosts with a seventh successive victory on the road. “It’s too early to speak about [making a statement against Arsenal] but our goals at the start of the season, we said we wanted to win everything,” Tsimikas said. “We will go to Arsenal to play our football and to win the game.
“Last season, at the end, we destroyed everything after one bad result against Manchester United. In the next fixtures we were not the team we were before but we have tried to work game by game and every game is a final. We try to do what the manager is asking to win games.”
Liverpool had designs on ending Jürgen Klopp’s reign with a quadruple before their dramatic quarter-final cup exit at Old Trafford, when United punished chaotic defending. The team have seven clean sheets under Slot, conceding five goals, and Tsimikas believes the head coach’s instructions have been key to the improvement.
The left-back said: “We defend all together. One of the goals of the new manager is he asks us to defend all together as a unit, as a team.
“We don’t want to concede. Everyone defends, everyone attacks and everyone wants to do even more. We’re hungry for more.
“I enjoy it very much [under Slot]. They work on every kind of detail and want you to improve. They are always there for you, even the manager and technical staff, to help you do the right stuff for the team. The things the manager wants from me, I am very happy to work with him.”
