{"id":257551,"date":"2025-11-02T12:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T12:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/257551\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T12:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T12:39:07","slug":"slot-sets-bradley-challenge-with-real-madrid-selection-hint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/257551\/","title":{"rendered":"Slot Sets Bradley ‘Challenge’ with Real Madrid Selection Hint"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arne Slot<\/a> has challenged Conor Bradley<\/a> to build on his \u201coutstanding\u201d performance against Aston Villa<\/a> by recovering quickly for Tuesday against Real Madrid<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bradley played a key role in helping the Reds bounce back from a disappointing October by securing a 2-0 win over Aston Villa<\/a> and moving up to third in the Premier League<\/a> table. <\/p>\n

After delivering arguably his best performance of the season at Anfield on Saturday night, the 22-year-old is now being challenged by Slot to maintain that level when Liverpool face Real Madrid<\/a> at Anfield in less than 72 hours.<\/p>\n

That is a particularly quick turnaround for the right-back, after completing just his second 90 minutes of the season, with the head coach suggesting he will start again.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe more players play together, the better it will be,\u201d said Slot in his post-match press conference when asked about Bradley\u2019s growing connection with Mohamed Salah<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cConor played an outstanding game, like many others; I think the team performance is what made the difference today.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone was really fighting to get that win over the line: throwing themselves in front of shots, sprinting back when needed, being ready for a high press.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo there were a lot of positives today, also from individual performances like Conor\u2019s.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe challenge for him now will be to make himself ready, because he\u2019s not been used to 90 minutes a lot this season and after two days of rest the next one is coming up.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to think about that as well. But yes, he played well today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bradley\u2019s chance to cement himself as first choice<\/p>\n

\"LIVERPOOL,<\/p>\n

It has been a challenging start to the season for Bradley, with Slot regularly rotating the Northern Ireland international alongside Jeremie Frimpong<\/a> and Dominik Szoboszlai<\/a> at right-back.<\/p>\n

However, with Liverpool\u2019s No. 8 excelling in midfield in recent weeks and Frimpong sidelined after picking up a muscle injury against Frankfurt last month, Bradley was handed the rare opportunity to complete the full match against Villa.<\/p>\n

After his lively display on Saturday, the 22-year-old looks set to retain his place for Tuesday\u2019s mouthwatering Champions League<\/a> clash at Anfield.<\/p>\n

Given his own struggle with injury, including a truncated pre-season, Bradley can now hope to find more consistency at a crucial time \u2013 in both fitness and form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arne Slot has challenged Conor Bradley to build on his \u201coutstanding\u201d performance against Aston Villa by recovering quickly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,68800,85],"class_list":["post-257551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-conor-bradley","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257551","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=257551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}