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‘Positive for many reasons’ – every word from Arne Slot’s press conference after Brentford

It’s not about that, it’s about making sure that these players, like Lucho, Mo, Cody (Gakpo), Diogo, Darwin (Nunez) and all the others who play in attacking positions, we put them in good positions as much as possible and then they can show their quality. I think the best example of that was when Mo put three, four, five combinations in and around the penalty area. We don’t train these things, it’s just about the quality of the players and all we try to do is get them in those positions as much as possible. And when they don’t have the ball, that they work really, really, really hard not to give the other team a chance – and I think that’s what we saw today and last week. It’s not so difficult to do it once or twice, the difficult thing is to do it 10 times out of 10 and that’s still what we have to show.

Whether Curtis Jones will be available for next weekend’s match against Manchester United after missing Sunday’s match with a minor injury…

It’s going to be close, so we’ll have to wait and see. It’s always difficult to see how an injury develops over the next week. He won’t be out for long, but it’s going to be close to be there next week. I’m sure he’ll do everything he can to be ready for next week.

About Jones’ injury…

In Holland we have always said that we can’t say anything about injuries, maybe it’s different here, but I think it has to do with privacy. It’s not a big injury.

Whether he is happy with the way the team has played in its first two games…

Yes, but it’s also very normal because I inherited a team and they all stayed. We try to keep a lot, a lot, a lot almost the same and maybe try to change one or two things where we think we can win. If Jurgen (Klopp) had stayed, he would have tried to find those one or two things where he could have improved the team. For me it’s no surprise that this team plays like this – and for you it shouldn’t be a surprise at all because you saw them play like this a lot last season.

About Wataru Endo and what he needs to do to play more minutes…

It’s not always about the player himself, it’s also about the competition he faces. We have a lot of good midfielders, just like we have a lot of good players. We are very happy with the way Wata is training for us, but he has some good competition and I think you saw a good performance from all three midfielders today, so it’s not always about him – it’s also about the others. He will be important for us during the season, because we need all of them; we all know how long a season can be here and how many players you need – and he is one of the ones we are going to need in the coming season.