{"id":509319,"date":"2026-03-02T10:15:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T14:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=509319"},"modified":"2026-03-02T10:15:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T14:15:53","slug":"slot-claims-the-premier-league-is-not-a-joy-to-watch-due-to-set-pieces","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/slot-claims-the-premier-league-is-not-a-joy-to-watch-due-to-set-pieces\/","title":{"rendered":"Slot claims the Premier League is not a joy to watch due to set-pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Reds manager, Arne Slot, has revealed his &#8220;football heart&#8221; is struggling to adjust to the ways of a modern EPL, sharing the league\u2019s obsession with set-piece routines is making games a chore to watch. <\/p>\n<p>The head coach, who won the league in his 1<sup>st<\/sup> campaign with Liverpool, thinks the tactical shift toward crowded goalmouths and physical dead-ball plays has turned the Premier League into an outlier compared to the other European championships.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the team from Anfield\u2019s own recent success from corners, the Dutch boss believes that this &#8220;new reality&#8221; is set to dominate the landscape in the next few years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe it\u2019s only happening here in the EPL,\u201d Slot started when asked about the lack of fouls. \u201cIf you watch matches from other championships, I see there is not so much emphasis on set pieces. When I watch a game from Eredivisie, you see goals being disallowed and fouls on goalkeepers being given, and I think that\u2019s not how things are happening here in the Premier League.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Most of the games I see are not a joy to watch.&quot; \ud83d\udde3\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Arne Slot isn&#39;t a fan of watching the Premier League \ud83d\ude2c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kqFnmz2BGT\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/kqFnmz2BGT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BBC Sport (@BBCSport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCSport\/status\/2028437959553245681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 2, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Reds manager, Arne Slot, has revealed his &#8220;football heart&#8221; is struggling to adjust to the ways of a modern EPL, sharing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":509320,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19580,16722],"news_category":[136,14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[17887,14194],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Liverpool's head coach shared that the EPL is not a joy to watch right now.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509321,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509319\/revisions\/509321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509319"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=509319"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=509319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}