{"id":167587,"date":"2025-09-25T07:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T07:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/167587\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T07:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T07:15:07","slug":"federico-chiesa-worked-the-hardest-could-now-play-no-9-vs-crystal-palace-liverpool-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/167587\/","title":{"rendered":"Federico Chiesa “worked the hardest” – could now play No. 9 vs. Crystal Palace – Liverpool FC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arne Slot<\/a> lauded Federico Chiesa<\/a>\u2018s work ethic after he had a hand in both goals in the win against Southampton<\/a>, with an opportunity now presenting itself at Palace.<\/p>\n

Chiesa played his first 90 minutes since February\u2019s trip to Plymouth on Tuesday evening and finished with two assists and the most chances created (four).<\/p>\n

He was statistically FotMob<\/a>\u2018s Man of the Match with a rating of 8.9-out-of-10, with his work on the ball matched by his efforts off it, winning the second-most duels of any player (five).<\/p>\n

\u2022 READ: Giovanni Leoni suffers torn ACL \u2013 season now over<\/a><\/p>\n

Slot spoke post-match how he was \u201cfar from happy with a few individual performances,\u201d but Chiesa was one of the obvious exceptions.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can accept completely that a team that plays for the first time together, players that haven\u2019t played for a long time, that they don\u2019t play as a team perfectly,\u201d Slot started.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u2022 READ: \u2018Hugo Ekitike told me he would score, give me his shirt and bugger off \u2013 and he did\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cBut what I always want to see is players that try and work hard. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo I said at half-time, for me it is completely not a coincidence that Federico picked the ball and assisted the first [goal] because he was the one, in my opinion, that was most involved in the game, tried the most, worked the hardest. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then it wasn\u2019t a coincidence again that he was the man that made a deep run, great ball by Robbo, by the way \u2013 who also has won so much at this club and also understands how to play this game: not underestimate it, just always be ready to play. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s also the way to get yourself either back in the team or get as much playing minutes as you want. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why I was happy with a few individual performances but far from happy with a few other individual performances.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

A chance at No. 9 on Saturday?<\/p>\n

\u2022 READ: Federico Chiesa says \u201cthere is nothing wrong\u201d with his song \u2013 \u201cI like the chant!\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

With Hugo Ekitike<\/a> earning himself a suspension against Crystal Palace<\/a> with a needless red card and Alexander Isak<\/a> still not ready to play 90 minutes, there is an opportunity for Chiesa at No. 9.<\/p>\n

As Slot said himself, the way to get into the team is to show the required effort, and the Italian did his chances of a more involved role no harm after being left out against Everton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Isak is likely to start his third match in 11 days at Selhurst Park, with Chiesa then the obvious choice to take over up top after the Swede has played his pre-planned minutes.<\/p>\n

In each of his four appearances off the bench in the league, Chiesa has taken over from Ekitike but played a maximum of 18 minutes, and Isak\u2019s game management means he is in line for more on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arne Slot lauded Federico Chiesa\u2018s work ethic after he had a hand in both goals in the win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[22261,64,63,56169,596,85],"class_list":["post-167587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-arne-slot","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-federico-chiesa","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}