{"id":397420,"date":"2026-01-07T11:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T11:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/397420\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T11:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T11:55:09","slug":"premier-league-news-conferences-live-arne-slot-to-speak-before-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/397420\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League news conferences LIVE: Arne Slot to speak before Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slot: I want to play attractive footballpublished at 10:55 GMT<\/p>\n<p>10:55 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-16yshci-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Arsenal v Liverpool (Thu, 20:00 GMT)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/90e10481-b6c2-49db-854e-cd774029cecd.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Aadam Patel<br \/>Football Reporter<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Arne Slot\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/373fa60c-b004-47b8-9162-23642c5e8738.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"958\" height=\"539\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the moment, Hugo Ekitike looks like a major doubt for Thursday&#8217;s game at Arsenal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The understanding is that it won\u2019t be a lengthy injury but Liverpool simply don\u2019t want to risk Ekitike, especially with Alexander Isak out and Mohamed Salah away at the Africa Cup of Nations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arne Slot said that Ekitike hasn\u2019t trained this week so any involvement in the game tomorrow will depend on how Ekitike comes through in training today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The task against Arsenal will be even tougher without Liverpool\u2019s top scorer, with Slot describing Mikel Arteta\u2019s side as the \u201ccomplete package\u201d and full of praise for the league leaders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Liverpool did beat them at Anfield earlier in the season and Slot insisted that his side have the talent but have lacked the consistency this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That said, Liverpool could make it 10 games unbeaten if they avoid defeat tomorrow &#8211; even if the performances haven&#8217;t caught the eye.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Slot admitted that he finds it &#8220;hard&#8221; to hear fans calling out his style of play and that he wants his teams to play &#8220;attractive football&#8221;. But in the here and now,  such an unbeaten run can only be a positive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Slot: I want to play attractive footballpublished at 10:55 GMT 10:55 GMT Arsenal v Liverpool (Thu, 20:00 GMT)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-397420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397420","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=397420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}