I hope we don't rush to conclude their current game, because I often say and many others also say that this is a pre-season match, so we haven't really seen their true strength. Because when our expectations are very high, then when we can't see it in the competition then we will feel disappointed. There are many things that they also have to pay attention to, because their opponents in the pre-season also didn't play to the best of their ability. Liverpool became the team that was awaited after the change of coach, because we guessed what would happen to them after they were left by Klopp. Arne Slot started his journey with Liverpool, this is his first season handling the red. I hope expectations are lowered a little because he also needs time to adapt to adjust his game to the rhythm of English football.
In fact, perhaps every club still has their best strategy and formation. Because if they show their best performance in pre-season then it will only be used as material for analysis by other teams to beat them. So each team still saves their best performance for the actual season. We really have to lower our expectations a little for every new coach who comes. And we have to see it and judge it in the actual match after a few weeks have passed. Because all new coaches, including Slot, definitely need time to adapt. And we have to be patient until we see how he can build maximum strength from Liverpool. But it would be very encouraging if it turned out that Slot immediately brought Liverpool to its best performance from the first week. This would be a great achievement for Slot in the world of coaching. And everyone will start talking about it and praising it. But yes, high expectations sometimes bring high pressure on the coach himself and can lead to a coach losing focus and causing the team's performance to decline again.
Yes, they will save their best game and they will not show it in the pre-season, usually a team already has the best formation and the best strategy and it is applied in a closed internal game, so it is not widely known by all the potential opponents they will face. The potential opponents they will face will only analyze and try to predict what it will be like, especially since this is the beginning of the season where certainly all teams do not know exactly what their opponent's strength is like. Unless they have played several official matches, it will make them know more about their real strength.
I think it would be funny if they showed the best of what they have, because at the beginning they will be known what kind of strength they have, it will make it easy for their opponents to try to apply a strategy that can counter the strategy they have. Every point at the beginning of the season is very crucial, because it can also affect their mentality in the next match.