{"id":197366,"date":"2025-06-19T14:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T14:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/197366\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T14:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T14:36:09","slug":"aura-leadership-and-zen-arne-slot-and-virgil-van-dijk-on-what-makes-alisson-becker-a-special-goalkeeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/197366\/","title":{"rendered":"Aura, leadership and zen &#8211; Arne Slot and Virgil van Dijk on what makes Alisson Becker a special goalkeeper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Liverpool head coach and captain offer their opinions on the goalkeeper in the three-part series \u2013 episode one of which premieres on <a href=\"https:\/\/video.liverpoolfc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>All Red Video<\/strong><\/a> at 12pm BST on Friday (June 20).<\/p>\n<p>Episodes two and three will follow on June 23 and June 26.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Slot\u2019s first season of managing Alisson ended in Premier League glory, while Van Dijk has won a litany of major honours alongside the Brazilian since the \u2019keeper joined him at the Reds in the summer of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Slot says: \u201cHe meets almost all expectations you want from the perfect goalkeeper. Normally, you have to accept from a goalkeeper that maybe one or two he doesn\u2019t have, but he\u2019s comfortable with the ball at his feet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s relaxed, so he has no stress at all, where sometimes you see goalkeepers that are comfortable with the ball \u2013 good in the execution \u2013 are having a little bit of stress when the ball comes to them. But it seems as if he has no stress at all!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen of course because he is so tall, in crosses he can come for every single cross. That is really helpful for every defence. And shot-stopping is maybe his best asset he has. It\u2019s very hard to score a goal against him from outside the box, it\u2019s almost impossible. And inside the box you have to be really precise if you want to score a goal against him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Liverpool head coach and captain offer their opinions on the goalkeeper in the three-part series \u2013 episode&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[1050,748,393,1051,4884,1039,1046,1041,1052,1054,1053,179,763,1045,1044,1040,1049,1042,1047,1043,16,15,1048],"class_list":{"0":"post-197366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-alisson","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-firmino","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-homepage","14":"tag-klopp","15":"tag-lfc","16":"tag-lfc-news","17":"tag-lfctv","18":"tag-lfctv-go","19":"tag-liverpool","20":"tag-liverpool-fc","21":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","22":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","23":"tag-liverpool-football-club","24":"tag-mane","25":"tag-reds","26":"tag-salah","27":"tag-the-reds","28":"tag-uk","29":"tag-united-kingdom","30":"tag-van-dijk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114710536711790744","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}