Goals from Rio Ngumoha, Darwin Nunez, Ben Doak and Harvey Elliott saw the Reds run out 4-1 winners in the first of two clashes with the La Liga side.
Later in the evening, Cody Gakpo netted twice in the second half after Mohamed Salah’s 14th-minute opener to clinch a 3-2 victory in game two.
Read on for Slot’s interview with Liverpoolfc.com following the completion of his side’s summer programme…
On the wins…
I think in both games we created a lot of chances, scored seven goals – four in the first, three in the second – so that’s very pleasing to see because we definitely didn’t score every chance we had. Especially in the second game in the first half, I think we could have scored a few goals more than we did. So that pleased me most, the ability to create the chances and even to score seven goals over two games is also good.
On whether he’s excited about the team’s attack this season…
Yeah, but we’ve also lost two quality players with Diogo [Jota] and Luis Diaz. But we’ve added with Hugo [Ekitike] definitely a player that’s going to be a very good player for us. Rio is showing good things every time in pre-season. The other games in pre-season, I think we’ve conceded a few chances too much. Today we hardly conceded anything at all, so that pleased me as well.
But then to concede, especially in the second game, two set-piece goals, that’s not what you want – especially if you play Crystal Palace [on Sunday] who are a team that are very strong on set-pieces. That’s then another thing to work on – we’ve worked on that already but to work on that even more in the upcoming week. But players are fit, worked really hard, played some good football, defended really strong and good – apart from the two set-pieces.
