{"id":76293,"date":"2025-05-05T11:10:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T11:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/76293\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T11:10:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T11:10:22","slug":"arne-slot-makes-federico-chiesa-admission-and-names-which-liverpool-player-he-liked-a-lot-against-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/76293\/","title":{"rendered":"Arne Slot makes Federico Chiesa admission and names which Liverpool player he ‘liked a lot’ against Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Liverpool\u2019s loss against Chelsea on Sunday was ultimately as easy a defeat as it\u2019s possible to take.<\/strong><\/p>\n

With the Reds already crowned as champions, they had no reason to collect anything from their trip to Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n

Liverpool supporters enjoyed themselves in west London<\/a>, continuing the party atmosphere even beyond Cole Palmer adding a third and final goal for Chelsea in injury time.<\/p>\n

The game had given Arne Slot<\/a> a chance to take a look at some fringe players in the Liverpool squad<\/a>, with a handful of them no doubt fighting for their futures at Anfield<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In that context, some had perhaps expected Federico Chiesa<\/a> to be given a chance from the start at Stamford Bridge. However, the Italian was reduced to an eight-minute cameo.<\/p>\n

With calls to give Chiesa game time growing louder, Slot explained why he had chosen to hold the winger back after the game.<\/p>\n

\"PhotoPhoto by James Gill \u2013 Danehouse\/Getty ImagesArne Slot impressed by Cody Gakpo performance<\/p>\n

Slot spoke about Chiesa\u2019s situation<\/a> before Sunday\u2019s game, confirming the 27-year-old would be given a chance at some stage during the next four Liverpool fixtures<\/a>.<\/p>\n

His actions against Chelsea did not reflect this pact, though, with Chiesa once again given very little time in which to make a difference.<\/p>\n

Asked directly about why he chose to wait so long before introducing the Italy international in his post-match press conference, Slot cited the performance of Cody Gakpo<\/a> as the main reason.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause I decided to bring other players in first, because I already brought Darwin [Nunez] in so that wasn\u2019t a position I could bring him in,\u201d said the Liverpool head coach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

READ MORE: What we learned about Liverpool\u2019s fringe players during Chelsea loss as Arne Slot proven right about \u00a345m man<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThen Cody Gakpo, I liked him a lot today, he played a really good game and I\u2019ve changed him and took him out in the last few weeks many times already. Mo [Salah] is always a player that can score a goal, so that\u2019s why I first made different substitutions. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn the end, I would almost say what people expect from me over here is we take an extra risk, so get a defender out, bring Federico in. That also led to us scoring the goal, but not enough time left for him to make the difference, unfortunately.\u201d<\/p>\n

Will Chiesa start against Arsenal?<\/p>\n

Although Liverpool\u2019s remaining games have nothing at all riding on them for the Reds, the matches themselves are all tough in their own way.<\/p>\n

Liverpool are not playing mid-table teams or relegation fodder, they have hard matches against teams who are desperate to beat them.<\/p>\n

With a strong Chelsea team really needing the points on Sunday, it was perhaps understandable that Slot chose not to start Chiesa.<\/p>\n

But it also then looks unlikely that the former Juventus player will begin the game against Arsenal this weekend. The Gunners have dropped off but they will still give Liverpool a tough match at Anfield.<\/p>\n

Although Chiesa may get a cameo at the end once again, we\u2019d be surprised to see him in the line-up against Arsenal. It\u2019s perhaps more likely that his first ever Premier League<\/a> start comes the following Monday at Brighton, or on the final day when Crystal Palace visit Anfield. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool\u2019s loss against Chelsea on Sunday was ultimately as easy a defeat as it\u2019s possible to take. With…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[1121,22690,22276,94,101,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-76293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-arne-slot","9":"tag-cody-gakpo","10":"tag-federico-chiesa","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-premier-league","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114454922721897413","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76293","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=76293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}