Dominik Szoboszlai is working exhausting to enhance his goalscoring return however insisted it was extra essential that he’s doing a “soiled job” for Arne Slot’s Liverpool facet.
Final season, Szoboszlai chipped in with eight objectives in 55 appearances for the Reds however to date this season his solely strike got here within the 3-1 Champions League win over AC Milan in September, and that has led to complaints from sections of the Liverpool assist and, typically, his personal supervisor.
The 23-year-old stated he’s placing within the hours on the coaching floor to enhance however he’s extra within the workforce’s outcomes than his personal numbers.
When requested if he was completely happy along with his type forward of Wednesday’s Champions League match in opposition to RB Leipzig, Szoboszlai stated he was not.
“It may be all the time higher so, no,” the 23-year-old stated. “I can play even higher. I can rating extra objectives and do extra assists. However I’m doing a grimy job for the workforce and that’s most essential for me. We’re high of league and if I don’t rating objectives that’s a very powerful for me.
“If we’re high of the league and I don’t rating a objective I’ll take it…I’m attempting to work on it to be able to attain extra objectives. It can take time however I’ll get there.”
Wednesday night time will see Liverpool and Szoboszlai come up in opposition to his former membership RB Leipzig within the Champions League.
Szoboszlai spent two seasons with Leipzig after becoming a member of from sister membership RB Salzburg in 2021, leaving for Liverpool in a deal price a reported £60 million in the summertime of 2023.
“It has been a fast one and a half years (since leaving),” the Hungary worldwide stated. “I got here right here as a younger expertise and left as a grown man and now I’m taking part in within the Premier League.
“I realized a whole lot of stuff that I didn’t know earlier than. You’ll be able to all the time study one thing from totally different coaches and totally different gamers and I can solely say optimistic issues (concerning the membership)…
“I’m completely happy to be again and to see outdated mates, and in addition the followers. I couldn’t actually say a goodbye to them as a result of my final switch was slightly bit fast.”
Liverpool travelled to Germany on the again of Sunday’s 2-1 win over Chelsea, a outcome that lifted them again to the highest of the Premier League.
In addition they have a most six factors from their opening two Champions League video games however Slot nonetheless sees a lot he needs to alter about his facet.
“You’ll be able to’t ask for rather more in relation to the outcomes, however in relation to what we wish there’s all the time room for enchancment,” he stated.
“I don’t suppose we outplayed Chelsea, we definitely didn’t, I feel they have been extra dominant with the ball. In a great world you’d have seen us dominate the sport like we did so many different video games. We’re not there but.
“The advantage of the workforce and our result’s once we face a workforce like Chelsea or (Manchester) United you see a workforce combating for each centimetre, each metre, combating for each second and that may be decisive within the recreation and that’s what we confirmed.
“I’m hoping that within the close to future we are going to play a troublesome recreation just like the Milan recreation or the United recreation and be extra dominant than we have been in opposition to Chelsea.”
Diogo Jota didn’t journey to Germany after struggling an harm in opposition to Chelsea, with Slot saying he doesn’t understand how lengthy the ahead will probably be out with bruising.
Conor Bradley and Federico Chiesa have likewise not travelled, together with longer-term absentees Alisson Becker and Harvey Elliot.
