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Arne Slot has warned Liverpool fans that they should not expect to see the best of winger Federico Chiesa so soon after his return from injury.
Summer signing Chiesa came off the bench in Wednesday’s 2-1 win over Southampton to make just his fourth appearance of the season, having spent the last three months sidelined with various injury problems.
It was a mixed performance from Chiesa, but Slot insisted that is to be expected from a player who is still finding his rhythm.
“I don’t know if we saw it the same, but I think what I saw is what you would expect,” Slot said. “If a player is out for five or six months you can’t wait (too long).
“I saw ups and downs. I saw some really good moments and I saw some moments where I felt, ‘Okay, you can do better than this.’ To me, that’s completely normal if a player has been out for so long and plays his first game. in five or six months.
“I already said before that this makes it very difficult for me, because normally in the preseason a player plays especially three, four or five games and then he is only out for four or five weeks. Instead, he was out for so long. So to achieve Getting him back to his best level is not easy, but it was good to see that he already showed some quality today.
“But the same thing happens to him as to young people, it is not enough to play at this level, you have to compete with Mo Salah, Cody Gakpo, Lucho (Luis Díaz), Darwin (Núñez) and Diogo (Jota). But it is good “Seeing that he’s back and that he had some good moments in the game.”
Chiesa’s next chance to impress could come in Liverpool’s clash with Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday, a match they controversially lost last season after Luis Diaz’s goal was incorrectly disallowed for offside.
