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Arne Slot: Liverpool boss insists he feels 'complete support' from the club and fanbase despite pressure mounting

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Arne Slot: Liverpool boss insists he feels 'complete support' from the club and fanbase despite pressure mounting

Arne Slot insists he feels "complete support" from both the club and fanbase despite pressure mounting on the Liverpool head coach.

Liverpool have lost three straight games, including the 2-0 loss to Paris Saint-Germain in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final and an emphatic 4-0 defeat to Manchester City in the FA Cup, to compound a dismal run of just two wins in their last eight fixtures.

Pressure has now been ramped up on Slot ahead of facing Fulham, live on Saturday Night Football, but the Liverpool boss has reiterated he feels nothing but support from the club's hierarchy and supporters.

"I am repeating myself a lot but I have said many times, I feel a lot of support," Slot said in his press conference ahead of facing Fulham.

"Not only from the owners, Richard [Hughes] and Michael [Edwards], but as weird as it sounds, I feel the support of the fans.

"When we were out in Paris immediately after a 4-0 loss [to Man City] and the fans were singing, ' We love you, Liverpool'.

"It is fair to say we were outplayed but we went to the away end and they were still singing and clapping for us. That support, we have felt constantly.

"I think the club knows what period of time we are in. In the meantime, I feel complete support."

Liverpool are fifth in the Premier League, which would be enough to secure Champions League football next season after English clubs were handed an extra spot in Europe's elite competition, but are just one point ahead of Chelsea in sixth.

Brentford and Merseyside rivals Everton trail by three points in seventh and eighth, respectively.

When quizzed on the pressure to secure a spot in the top five in the league, after not winning in the top-flight since February 28, Slot added: "We faced the champions of Europe and experienced, on that evening, not at the level we want to be.

"The good thing is that in four or five days, we have another chance to show we can be much more competitive than we were.

"But it also tells us that if we want to keep improving, we have to keep playing at that level and next season that means Champions League football.

"I think, if you experience that, you want to be involved in that next season to show we can do even better. We want to have that chance next season, so we have to perform in the league as well.

"That will be interesting. Yesterday was a recovery day. Not all of our players are able and capable of playing three days later in another intense game.

"Let's see what the line-up brings this time."

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