Nerves no issue for Liverpool in title run-in says Arne Slot

Liverpool head coach Arne Slot dismissed suggestions nerves are starting to affect his side and believes his players have the experience to cope with the pressure of a title run-in.

Sunday’s 2-1 victory over Wolves, in which they endured a nail-biting last 25 minutes after the visitors scored, was the sixth match the Premier League leaders have won by the margin of one goal.

The Dutchman has his own experience of winning a title with Feyenoord two years ago but inherited a dressing room full of Premier League champions from 2020 when he moved to Anfield in the summer.

He is backing the likes of Virgil van Dijk, Alisson Becker and Mohamed Salah to lead the squad through some more inevitably testing times.

"I think it always helps if you have experienced it already, that’s not only me but also for the players," he said.

"We lean a lot on the players because we train with them, I give them a pre-match meeting to try to prepare them in the best possible way but from that moment onwards you lean on the players – how much work-rate do they want to put in, how well do they execute the gameplan, do they adapt to what the other team does?

"It helps not in the sense they have won the league here maybe but they are used to playing big games in their career with a lot of pressure: Macca (Alexis Mac Allister) has won a World Cup.

"I think it helps you if a team or a player already won something but don’t make that too big because you still have to play for it and you can’t compare the circumstances.

"So the ones that won the league here already that was in Corona(virus) time with fans not being in the stadium and at a certain point they were 25 points up so you can hardly talk about pressure then.

"Although I am the type of manager that if