NewsArne Slot press conference: Belief against PSG, approach, atmosphere and Rio Ngumoha

The Reds will attempt to overcome last week's 2-0 first-leg defeat in the French capital and secure their spot in the last four.

Slot spoke to reporters on the eve of Tuesday night's Anfield affair – see what the head coach had to say below.

On how he is instilling the belief in his players that the tie is 'retrievable'…

First of all, remind them what the score was, that it was 2-0. It felt completely different, as we all know, but the end result was 2-0. Second of all, we have shown so many times this season in big games that we are able to get a great performance. We have also shown a different face, I am completely aware of that, but many of our games that we have played were very good as well, especially in big games.

Not all of them because not all of us have been together for one-and-a-half years, but for the ones that have been with me for the past one-and-a-half years, in the 49 home games we have played, 36 times we were able to score two goals or more. So, yes, we did not play in all these 49 games against Paris Saint-Germain, I do understand that. But as we all know, the Premier League and the Champions League opponents that we had over here were also very strong and are very strong.

So, yes, there is a belief that we can do special things tomorrow but we need to be very, very, very special tomorrow to achieve that because we are playing against the champions of Europe, so that makes the task more complicated but not impossible.

On how different the approach will be both in terms of tactics and attitude in comparison to the first leg…

I don't know if a lot has been said about that because I had to focus on Fulham and now Paris Saint-Germain again, but usually in football I know how it works that if you change the system the focus is completely on the system, and not about what is actually happening. People find it probably very hard to believe what I am going to say now, but the approach is not so different for tomorrow than it was in Paris – for the people who know me, I never put out a team and tell them to go to a low block for 90 minutes.

Actually, if you really looked at the game back you could see that we have pressed them high on multiple, multiple, multiple occasions. Unfortunately, seven or eight of those moments led to them being one-on-one to our goalkeeper. So, again, the approach tomorrow will be to take the risk – because that's, first of all, what we need – but to get the ball off them you need to press them, and we saw how difficult it is to press these players. But that was the same last season and Anfield did make a big difference for us last season, and I am expecting it to make a big difference for us tomorrow as well.

On his selection plans...

I think we have to find the perfect balance between being offensive. But to be offensive you need to have the ball and to get the ball back, you're now mentioning two full-backs but against all these other players you have to do so many things well before your attackers can attack. So, that's why the history of this club and at other clubs you've seen players that are very good offensively but are also able to do the defensive job, because the only way to score is if you have the ball.

The thing is that tomorrow two teams are facing each other [and] both would like to have the ball a lot. The last time we faced each other, they had the ball for 76 per cent of the time, so that's the first thing we have to change tomorrow – to have the ball more. And if we have it more then it's nice to have attacking threat on the pitch and that's what we will have tomorrow.

On whether Rio Ngumoha is 'someone who could cope with these types of games'...

Yeah, I think he can. First of all, because of his personality. He doesn't get distracted that soon. I think everyone who knows his history a bit more, there's a lot of expectation around him for many years already and he's always been able to focus on football, to become better, to become stronger, to become ready at 16 years of age to score your first goals, 17 years of age and already had multiple starts for the first team of Liverpool. That's one thing.

And second of all, because of his quality. He shows that he's able at the highest level – which is Champions League but Premier League definitely is this as well – to be able to take one-v-ones on and make it difficult for the defenders he's facing. I think he's done a very good job in managing what comes to him now. But then it's also a good thing to have so many experienced players around you, which he has in the dressing room.

On the mindset going into the game...

Of course, we know we need an exceptional performance to go through to the next round, but that's completely normal if you face the champions of Europe and you're 2-0 down. Then to make people a bit more positive than you were trying just a second ago, we've also been able to score more than two goals once in a while.

Let's first focus on the job at hand and that is just start aggressive, making sure we can get back into the tie and the best way of doing so is, of course, scoring the first goal, which we again know because otherwise you're going tell me, 'Yeah, but last season they scored the first goal over here and at Arsenal they scored their first goal...' So yes, I know that they will try to score the first goal, but that's definitely what we are going to try as well.

On how important Anfield could be...

Just as important as our performance, so I think we have to be much, much, much better than we were last week. Their players are experienced players, they have experienced Anfield a year ago, so they think that they know what's coming up. So, I can only hope that our fans can find an extra gear compared to last season, which I'd argue if it's possible because the atmosphere last season was unbelievable.

But I think our fans are up for it to make it even louder, which is also needed because then their players get what they don't expect. First of all, a better performance from us, which I do think they would expect, by the way – it's hardly possible to play at the same level again. And our fans, I think I can trust them [to be] even louder than last season.

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